October 19, 2015 – Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway 488 and 484 and other photos!

October 19, 2015 – Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway 488 and 484 sit outside the engine house at Chama, New Mexico after their last day of scheduled passenger service for the year. If you’ve never been here, put it on your bucket list! One of the most railfan friendly steam operations I’ve ever been to.

According to Wikipeda: The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS) is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad running for 64 miles (103 km) between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico, United States. The railroad gets its name from two geographical features along the route, the 10,015 ft (3,053 m) high Cumbres Pass and Toltec Gorge. Originally part of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad’s narrow-gauge network, the line has been jointly owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico since 1970.- #jimstrainphotos #coloradorailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #cumbresandtoltec

Below are other photos from my Facebook daily posts, to catch my website up to date!

: July 5, 2018 – Evansville Western Railway 4502, 2108 and 2013 lead an empty coal train around undert the coaling tower at Alliance Coal in preparation for loading their train at Princeton, Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #evwr #evwrrailway

: July 10, 2018 – Norfolk Southern Railway 167 heads east with three high/wide loads of Komatsu equipment at Hatfield Junction, Oakland City, Indiana on the NS Southern-East District. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway

: July 10, 2018 – A loaded Norfolk Southern coal train sits tied down on the bridge over Walbash River at East Mt. Carmel, Indiana as it waits on the Duke Energy Lead to move up to the power plant to unload it’s train. – #jimstrainphotos #illinoisrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway

: July 12, 2018 – A BNSF Railway local makes its way south across the Ohio River Bridge at Metropolis, Illinois to do interchange work with the Paducah and Louisville Railway, as the sun begins to set, while a river barge sits pushed up to the bank at the old ferry landing in West Paducah, Kentucky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #bnsf #pal #bnsfrailway #palrailway

: July 13, 2018 – Paducah and Louisville Railway 2121 heads-up a lash-up of 7 locomotives as it leads a loaded coal train across Barkley Dam, on the Cumberland River, at Grand Rivers, Ky, southbound to the Calvert City load-out. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway #paducahandlouisvillerailway

: July 12, 2018 – A Canadian National Railway mixed freight rounds the curve as it heads into the P&I Junction at Paducah, Ky with ex-GTW 6225, IC 9600, BNSF 9153 and Citirail CREX 1434 as power. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #cn #csxrailroad

: July 12, 2018 – Canadian National Railway’s 2928 heads-up an empty coal train as it heads south through Chiles Junction at West Paducah, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #cnrailway

: July 12, 2018 – A southbound loaded Paducah and Louisville Railway coal train prepares to pass a loaded Union Pacific Coal train tied down in the siding at the PAL Princeton Yard in Princeton, Ky. The PAL train, with 7 units, was headed for Calvert City load out to drop off it’s load of coal and the UP train just came from there picking one up. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway

: July 12, 2018 – BNSF 1775 and 2720 lead a local through Chiles Junction at West Paducah, Ky as it heads south to perform interchange work with the Paducah and Louisville Railway in Paducah, Ky. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #bnsf #bnsfrailway

: July 17, 2018 – “Sunset Rails” The rails at Lyle Siding on the Norfolk Southern-West District glow with the golden light from the setting sun at Princeton, Indiana. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway

: July 17, 2018 – “Sunset Rails II” The sun begins to set over an empty Lyle Siding on the Norfolk Southern-West District at Princeton, Indiana as the tops of the rails glow from the setting sun. – #jimstrainphotos #indianarailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway

: July 17, 2018 – Norfolk Southern 239 autorack train passes over the NS/CSX crossover, as the NS Safety Train sits in a house track at Mount Vernon, Illinois. – #jimstrainphotos #illinoisrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #ns #nsrailway

: July 18, 2018 – Southbound CSX Q647-17 pulls off the Earlington Cutoff Track onto the Henderson Subdivision main at Mortons Junction in Mortons Gap, Ky, past two derailed boxcars. The boxcars are from a minor derailment a couple weeks ago that derailed four cars that did damage to the the tracks and switch. Service was restored by the next day. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad

: July 18, 2018 – Southbound CSX Q647-17 pulls off the Earlington Cutoff Track onto the Henderson Subdivision main at Mortons Junction in Mortons Gap, Ky, past two derailed boxcars. The boxcars are from a minor derailment a couple weeks ago that derailed four cars that did damage to the the tracks and switch. Service was restored by the next day. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #csx #csxrailroad

: July 12, 2018 – Paducah and Louisville 2127, “Salute to Our Troops” locomotive sits outside the shops at the PAL yard at Paducah, Kentucky as the last light of the day begins to fade from the sky. Inside the shop 4510 can be seen undergoing work. – #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains #nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway #pal #palrailway #paducahandlouisvillerailway

: October 21, 2015 – San Luis and Rio Grande 4138, ex-New Jersey Transit 4138, leads a short freight south along highway 285 at Alamosa, Colorada. – Tech Info: 1/500ec | f/6 | ISO 400 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 390mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.

: October 22, 2015 – San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad’s Iowa Pacific 9925 sits in their yard at Alamosa, Colorado tied to 8537. – Tech Info: 1/1250 | f/2.8 | ISO 100 | Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 42mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.