September 23, 2014 – The last light of day reflects off the side of a eastbound Union Pacific intermodal with 8059 leading at Lordsburg, New Mexico on the Lordsburg Subdivision. – #jimstrainphotos #newmexicorailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #up #uprailroad
March 28, 2015 – Union Pacific Rotary Snow Plow 900081 sits on display at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, MO.
Designed and Built by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1966 at their Omaha Shop, this rotary snowplow is the heaviest ever built, weighing 367,400 pounds. Its cutting wheel could throw snow far to either side of the track as it was pushed forward at 4-6 mph. It is not self propelled and must be pushed by 3-4 locomotives.
Number 900081 is powered by a GM/EMD 16 cylinder, 2,000hp turbo charged diesel engine that drives an electric generator which provides power to turn the 12′ rotary blades at up to 150 rpm. A steam generator heats the cab, prevents the fuel and water pipes from freezing and can thaw out the cutting wheel if it gets stuck.
The Plow engineer controls both the plow and the trailing locomotives. This snowplow is 52′ 2″ long, 17′ high and was last used in Green River WY, in the mid 1980’s. There are circular windows in the front of the plow that revolve to keep them clear of snow.
UP 900081 was assigned to Green River in about 1986, LaGrande, Oregon in 1994 and then retired in 1994 due to freeze damage and was donated to Museum of Transportation, in 1994.- #jimstrainphotos
May 19, 2018 – Union Pacific 9795 leads a northbound mixed freight across the CN/UP Diamond at Sullivan, Illinois. – #jimstrainphotos #illinoisrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #up #unionpacific #unionpacificrailroad
April 12, 2018 – Union Pacific 8974 heads up a string of 8 locomotives on NS 319 as it pulls to a stop short of Ohio Street in Princeton, Indiana. It’s crew had to drop four of the engines at Princeton before continuing on east on the NS Southern-East District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway
March 15, 2018 – A empty westbound Norfolk Southern coal train passes through Hatfield Junction outside of Oakland City, Indiana with Union Pacific 8997 bringing up the rear as the last DPU on the NS Southern-East District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway #unionpacific #uprailway
February 22, 2018 – CSX loaded coal train N013-22 prepares to pass an empty UP Coke train, Z462-22, at East Diamond as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision on a wet, dreary day.
February 21, 2018 – Paducah and Louisville Railway 3112 pulls a empty ballast train past a loaded coke train at West Yard in Madisonville, Ky on a rainy afternoon as it prepares to stop at the yard to allow the northbound local to pass. Afterward it headed south to Princeton, Ky where dropped the empty cars, where Fredonia Valley railroad will take them to the Fredonia Rock Quarry in Princeton to be filled, after dropping a loaded set at the Princeton yard.
January 29, 2018 – I waited a couple days to post this photo as it’s of CSX military train W873 heading past the spur at Anaconda on track 1, with Union Pacific Power, at Sebree, Ky as it makes its way south on the Henderson Subdivision.
January 5, 2018 – CSX Q513-05 heads through the work limits at the south end of the current siding at Nortonville, Ky, with UP 7674 leading. Construction continues with the laying of new track and switches connecting the Romney and Nortonville sidings together to form a two track main between the two points.
December 29, 2017 – Union Pacific 8403 leads a mixed freight southbound on the Mt. Vernon Subdivision, with Kansas City Southern 4058 trailing, as they cross over the Norfolk Southern line at Mount Vernon, Illinois.
June 24, 2006 – It’s a hot, dry day as Norfolk Southern 9943, in gray primer paint, heads up a Union Pacific freight train as it makes it’s way through the Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville, California as it heads toward the famous Tehachapi Loop.NS 9943 at Tehachapi Mountains, Bealville, CA
June 19, 2006 – IN reworking my drive storage system this weekend I stumbled across this shot of Union Pacific 5377 leading a autorack train up the grade at Cajon Pass, California that I shot with my then state-of-the-art Nikon D200!! I’ve been shooting RAW with my cameras since it was available and I’m glad I did! I was able to apply my style to this photograph that I shot over 11 years ago because of it! I think it turned out nicely myself!! #jimstrainphotos #californiarailroads #trains #nikond200 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #unionpacificrailroad
October 17, 2017 – CSX Q586 rounds the curve from the power siding as it approaches Arklow, with Union Pacific 2616 leading the consist of 6 locomotives, as it heads out of Madisonville, Ky, northbound on the Henderson Subdivision.
October 10, 2017 – Union Pacific 2715 leads CSX N052, a loaded coal train, past a CSX maintenance of way train off loading in the siding at Crofton, Ky, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
May 8, 1989 – Throwback Saturday! This is a scan from a slide I made of Southern Pacific’s 4449 and Union Pacific’s 8444 (now 844) as they headed up the Cajon Pass in southern California. This was after they were on display for the 50th Anniversary of Los Angeles Union Station in 1989. It was an amazing thing to watch, photograph and chase!
October 5, 2017 – CSX Q512-05 heads through Nortonville, Ky, with UP 7903 leading, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. At left is a crossover switch waiting to be installed as part of a double track main that is being constructed between Nortonville and Mortons Gap, Ky.
August 23, 2017 – Kansas City Southern 4771 leads CSX Q029-23 (Chicago, IL-Atlanta, GA) south, with BNSF 4980 trailing, as it passes it’s counterpart, northbound Q028 in the siding at Trenton, Ky, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
I wanted this shot bad and in the rush I failed to check my shutter speed on my Fuji XT-1. The photo ended up being about 5 stops over exposed! While I lost some details in the highlights, mostly evident in the ballast and sky, at least I recovered it well enough to make this post. The key to recovery is that the photo was shot as a RAW file, as all my images are shot and processed as RAW files.
If you don’t shoot in RAW and your camera is able to do so, you’re not using the full potential of your camera’s sensor! When shooting and processing in RAW format you capture every bit of detail and data that your sensor can capture, whereas JPG doesn’t. This photo wouldn’t have seen the light of day as a JPG. Just food for thought!!
If you’re looking for a tutorial for using RAW here’s the one I bought and learned from:
Of course there’s a lot of free classes out there also on YouTube, but this one is the best I’ve found.
If you’ve never visited Creativelive it’s a great resource and if you watch the live broadcast then there’s no charge! Once it broadcasts, or if you want to go back and review the video over and over again then it’s available for purchase as the RAW course. It’s a great resource!
August 16, 2017 – Dusk falls as Union Pacific 4061 leads CSX Q645 (Chicago, IL-Waycross, GA), south underneath the old C&EI coaling tower that was built in 1941 to service steam locomotives, as it headed south on CSX’s CE&D Subdivision at Sullivan, Indiana! Of the three CSX trains I caught under this tower today and the only one of the trains that ran with CSX power and it was trailing.
July 25, 2017 – CSX R530, running with Union Pacific Power, snakes its way through the curve approaching the north end of Romney where it will take the siding to wait for hot intermodal Q028 to pass, at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
May 29, 2017 – CSX loaded coal drag N050, with UP power, heads south out of Sebree, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision bound for Duke Energy’s Crystal River Energy Complex via Fitzgerald, GA.
June 24, 2017 – Northbound CSX W837-21 Military train with Union Pacific 4060 leading, sits in the siding at the north end of the siding at Nortonville, Ky, as it waits for hot intermodal Q028 to pass it heading north on the Henderson Subdivision.