Category: Chapter Photo Contest

January 2024 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

February 24, 2024 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section

Our membership voted at last Monday’s meeting and the winners for our January 2024 photo contest were Bill Farrell 1st Place and Cooper Smith 2nd, Place. Congratulations to you both and our next contest will run the full month of March!

1st Place winner of the January 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest – Northbound Canadian Pacific locomotive 8705 waiting in Hopkinsville, Kentucky for the all clear to proceed, on 1/15/2024. – Photo by William Farrell
2nd Place winner of the January 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest – Fort Campbell’s USAX pulling loads from the CSX interchange in Hopkinsville, KY. – Photo by Cooper Smith

Other Entries Below

CSXT 721 leads a SB at Mortons Gap KY on January 15, 2024 on the Henderson Subdivision. Photo by Rick Bivins.
CSXT 721 leads a SB at Mortons Gap KY on January 15, 2024 on the Henderson Subdivision. Photo by Rick Bivins.
RJC train MR25 dashes through the snow in Russellville, KY. – Photo by Cooper Smith

October 2023 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

October 18, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS October 2023 Photo Contest – NS 3663 leads NS #224 as it sits “in the hole” at Buechel, KY. It is waiting his turn to make a set out at Appliance Park while another train is making a pickup on this Fall peak week around Louisville, KY. – Photo by Bill Grady
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS October 2023 Photo Contest – A northbound Canadian National mixed freight crosses the Big Muddy River just north of Carbondale IL. – Photo by Ricky Bivins

September 2023 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

September 18, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners

1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS September 2023 Photo Contest – CSX mixed freight heads southbound with “Geeps” leading, pass through Mortons Gap KY, on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins

2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS September 2023 Photo Contest – CSXT 4719 and 38 lead a mixed freight as they head north on the CSX Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, Ky. – Photo by Ricky Bivins

July 2023 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

August 23, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS May 2023 Photo Contest by Bill Grady – Norfolk Southern #60P westbound is making its way through Buechel, KY. #60P is a Unit Potash train out of Canada that is turned over to the NS at Chicago, Illinois for the trip to Louisville, KY on July 6th, 2023. – Photo by Bill Grady
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2023 Photo Contest by Bill Farrell – Locomotive 271, F-9 unit of the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railroad, idles before leaving the Candor Yard, North Carolina on July 30th, 2023. – Photo by Bill Farrell
3rd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2023 Photo Contest by Bill Thomas – New CSX Heritage Seaboard System Locomotive 1982 heads south through the crossing at West Lake Street in Madisonville, Kentucky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Bill Thomas

Other Entries

As new CSX Heritage Seaboard System Locomotive 1982 fresh from the paint shop and making its maiden run, heads up CSX I026 as his consist rolls through the 50-mph curve northbound at St, James, Indiana on a great July 4th afternoon. – photo by Bill Grady
CSX Honoring our Law Enforcement locomotive 3194 heads up an empty coal train as it heads north at Mortons Gap Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
CSX Seaboard System Heritage locomotive 1982 leads I026 as it heads north at Mortons Gap Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins

May 2023 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

July 16, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS May 2023 Photo Contest by Ricky Bivins – CSX Operation Lifesaver engine 4568 leads a northbound freight at Mortons Gap Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS May 2023 Photo Contest by Chris Dees – Norfolk Southern AC44C6M number 4534 leads a northbound Canadian National empty potash train through the Carroll University campus in Waukesha, WI on the morning of May 28, 2023. Photo by Chris Dees. – Photo by Chris Dees

The other entries were:

To All Trains…the exit from Chicago Union Station’s Grand Hall beckons Metra and Amtrak passengers toward a new adventure on Memorial Day 2023. Photo by Chris Dees.
BNSF 7570 leads a southbound loaded grain train at Mortons Gap Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins.

March 2023 Photo Contest Winners & Entries

May 27, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section

Congratulations to the winners of our Chapter photo contest winner for March!

1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS March 2023 Photo Contest by Bill Grady – Norfolk Southern Intermodal #219 is coming through the cut at Depauw, Indiana on a nice, clear, spring morning as it heads to Louisville, KY with 4530 leading the way. – Photo by Bill Grady
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS March 2023 Photo Contest by Cooper Smith – PAL 3812 heads across the Tennessee River at Grand Rivers, Kentucky as it leads a coal train to West Paducah. – Photo by Cooper Smith
3rd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS March 2023 Photo Contest by Bill Farrell – CSX locomotive 3377 on the lead of train I025 at the north end of Kelly, Kentucky. Photo by Bill Farrell.
RJ Corman is celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year with these two former Norfolk Southern SD70M’s in a special paint. They are currently “testing” on the “Sand Train” that runs nightly from Nugent Sand in Louisville to the unloading point at RJ Cormans Yard in Lexington, KY. – Photo by Bill Grady
CN 2131 leads a rail train south through Fulton, KY with an uncommon standard cab dash 8 in the lead. – Photo by Cooper Smith
CSX local L391 heads back south through Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. ? Photo by Rick Bivins
North bound Pot Ash train at Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. ? Photo by Rick Bivins

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January 2023 Photo Contest Winners

March 20, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners

First Place January 2023 West KY NRHS Photo Contest – RJ Corman locomotive 3803 eastbound, pulling a local freight between Russellville and Auburn, Kentucky. – Photo by William Farrell

Second Place January 2023 West KY NRHS Photo Contest -Norfolk Southern Intermodal #218 has taken the siding at Buechel, KY to wait for a Kentucky Utilities Coal Train #76J to charge the hill towards Danville, KY. NS #218 has no work this day and will be at the home terminal in Louisville in short order. Buechel, KY on January 27, 2023. – Photo by Bill Grady

January 2023 Photo Contest

February 25, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners

The winners and entries from the chapter’s 2023 Photo Contest! Our next contest runs from March 1-31, 2023. Each member may submit two entries as JPGs and deadline for your entries is April 7th, 2023. Your entries must be shot during the March 1-31st time frame.

First Place January 2023 West KY NRHS Photo Contest – RJ Corman locomotive 3803 eastbound, pulling a local freight between Russellville and Auburn, Kentucky. – Photo by William Farrell
Norfolk Southern Intermodal #218 has taken the siding at Buechel, KY to wait for a Kentucky Utilities Coal Train #76J to charge the hill towards Danville, KY. NS #218 has no work this day and will be at the home terminal in Louisville in short order. Buechel, KY on January 27, 2023. – Photo by Bill Grady
WKNRHS January 2023 Photo Contest – Norfolk Southern #279 is nearing the end of its journey from Newport News, VA to Louisville, KY. NS #279 with the 4150 leading has to make one more setout at the Appliance Park Yard in Buechel, KY. – Photo by Bill Grady
WKNRHS January 2023 Photo Contest – A CSX mixed freight passes through Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
WKNRHS January 2023 Photo Contest – BNSF 7509 leads a SB with empty flat cars at Mortons Gap, KY. – Photo by Rick Bivins.

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October 2022 Photo Contest Winners

January 16, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners
WKNRHS Photo Contest 1st Place October 2022 – With nothing but High Green Signals in sight, CSX I029 has his train up to track speed at the old L&N location of Rankin, KY on October 28, 2022. Photo by Bill Grady
WKNRHS Photo Contest 2nd Place October 2022 – October 19, 2022 – CSX I025 SB at Mortons Gap KY. – Photo by Rick Bivins
WKNRHS Photo Contest 3rd Place October 2022 – Amtrak locomotive 106 pulling an east bound commuter from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, PA. at Cresson, PA. Photo by William Farrell

September 2022 Photo Contest Winners

January 16, 2023 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners
1st Place WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – Trains operate in any weather conditions and today is just another day on the NS Louisville District as NS #279 (8129 West) waits for NS #219(East) to clear the switch at Buechel, KY in a downpour that would last about 10 minutes. – Photo by Bill Grady 9/11/2022
2nd Place WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – CSX geometry train with EMD GP40-2, travels south on the Henderson Sub at Poor House signal between Hanson and Madisonville, KY, September 26, 2022. According to information from a post by Jim Pearson in 2021, the first car in the train is a former Southern Pacific 10-6 sleeper built in 1971. Photo by Bill Thomas, taken from Brown Badgett Loop with an iPhone 10.
3rd Place WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – A BNSF crew member conducts a rollby inspection at the Big 10 Curve outside Denver, CO. on 9-14-22. – Photo by Will King

September 2022 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

October 25, 2022 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners
1st Place WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – Trains operate in any weather conditions and today is just another day on the NS Louisville District as NS #279 (8129 West) waits for NS #219(East) to clear the switch at Buechel, KY in a downpour that would last about 10 minutes. – Photo by Bill Grady 9/11/2022
2nd Place WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – CSX geometry train with EMD GP40-2, travels south on the Henderson Sub at Poor House signal between Hanson and Madisonville, KY, September 26, 2022. According to information from a post by Jim Pearson in 2021, the first car in the train is a former Southern Pacific 10-6 sleeper built in 1971. Photo by Bill Thomas, taken from Brown Badgett Loop with an iPhone 10.
3rd Place WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – A BNSF crew member conducts a rollby inspection at the Big 10 Curve outside Denver, CO. on 9-14-22. – Photo by Will King

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WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – On a perfect Mid-day Sunday, NS Train #168 Westbound leans into a curve at Kyana, Indiana on the Norfolk Southern Southeast District. They will set out at Huntingburg then proceed on to Princeton, Indiana. – Photo by Bill Grady 9/18/2022
WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – Three Pacifics of various heritage have arrived at the Quaker Oats facility in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 8, 2022. Leading the pack is Union Pacific C44ACM number 6254. The middle locomotive is Missouri Pacific heritage SD70Ace number 1982. Trailing is Canadian Pacific SD70ACu number 7056, rebuilt by Progress Rail in Mayfield. – Photo by Chris Dees.
WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – An estimated twenty-five percent of all U.S. rail traffic travels a part of its journey over short line railroads. Iowa River Railroad GP30 3004 and GP38M 3802 do their part in the supply chain, hauling ethanol from Pine Lake Corn Processors in Steamboat Rock, Iowa. Photographed by Chris Dees at Ackley, Iowa on the morning of September 8, 2022. – Photo by Chris Dees
WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – CSX 3194, Honoring our Law Enforcement Unit leads a northbound through Mortons Junction at Mortons Gap, KY on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – CSX Mixed freight heads north at Mortons Gap, KY with two units in elephant style, on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
WKNRHS Photo Contest – September 2022 – SD70M locomotive UP 4015 sits at Glenwood Springs, CO , on September 14th, 2022. This Loco had a tale to tell thanks to the Engineer. You can see that the trucks are painted silver because it was used behind the last run of the Big Boy.- Photo by Will King

July 2022 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

August 22, 2022 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2022 Photo Contest by Bill Farrell – L&N Locomotive 405, at the Tennessee Central Railroad Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2022 Photo Contest by Ricky Bivins – CSXT 889 leads an empty coal train NB at Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.

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Ricky Bivins – BNSF 8435 leads an freight train NB at Mortons Gap, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision on July 5.
Photo by Tom Steiner – Cowan (TN) Railroad Museum, 1920 Columbia-Type 2-7-2 Steam Locomotive. It was first owned by Mr. William Elliott Dunwady, owner of the Cherokee Brick Company in Macon, GA, about 1920. It was especially suited for the brick company’s needs and pulled six yard side cars loaded with clay from the clay pits to the foundry. The engine’s size was limited for two reasons: it did not pull great weights, and it had to be rather small to function on the Cherokee Brick Company line.
Photo by Tom Steiner – July 15, Cowan, TN Rail Road Museum. CSX 3426, the first of 3 locomotives, passing the Cowan (TN) Railroad Museum with the Diesel electric locomotive, General Electric 44 tonner, former NC&StL number 100 in the background.
Photo by Will King – BNSF 7805 at Centrale, Ill by the Amtrak Station . I thought it was a cool shot BNSF on lead with CN and NS locos behind. taken on same day.
Photo by Will King – Rail fanning in Bartelso, Ill I captured these shot of NS loco’s.

May 2022 Chapter Photo Contest Winners and entries

July 7, 2022 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section

Congratulations to Cooper Smith our first place and Bill Grady second place winners of our May 2022 chapter photo contest ! A reminder also that our July 2022 contest is currently underway and it runs for the whole month. All the entries may be viewed on the chapter’s website or our Facebook Group.

Each dues paying member is allowed to submit two photographs taken anywhere during the month. Entries with captions should be sent to jim@jimpearsonphotography.com by midnight on August 7th, 2022.

Get out trackside and shoot some pictures!!!

1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS May 2022 Photo Contest by Cooper Smith – An Amtrak Heritage Unit leads a westbound train through the semaphore signals at Bernal, NM on May 27th, 2022.
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS May 2022 Photo by Bill Grady – Thursday, May 9, 2022 finds the President of CSX on a Inspection Trip across the LH&StL Subdivision “Texas”. Seen here on the East end of Owensboro at “Steelton”, the P001-09 originated at Indianapolis, ran to Louisville, across the Texas into Evansville, then south to Atlanta, Georgia.
Locomotive CSX 1 pulling a “Presidential Train” south at the North end of Casey Yard, Pembroke, Kentucky. – Photo by Bill Farrell
In a surprise of sorts, the CSX 911 “Spirit of Our First Responders” is the leader on CSX B419-14(Coke Loads) and is in a holding pattern at North King Siding just South of Princeton, Indiana. Seen here about to depart with a fresh crew, the B419 will head to Madisonville, KY and tie down at Atkinson Yard then wait for a P&L Crew to take it on to Calvert City for unloading. May 15, 2022. Photo by Bill Grady – Photo by Bill Grady
A southbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train glides along the coast at Ventura, CA. – Photo by Cooper Smith
A CSX Mixed freight heads southbound on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, KY with CSXT 8181 leading. – Photo by Ricky Bivins.
CSX 4535 leads a mixed freight northbound on the Henderson Subdivision at Mortons Gap, KY. – Photo by Ricky Bivins

Contest News and January 2022 winners

March 5, 2022 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS January 2022 Photo Contest by Bill Farrell. CSX locomotive 87 on the head of a north bound mixed freight at Pembroke Yard as it heads through the blowing snow at Hopkinsville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.

Congratulations to the winners in our January 2022 Chapter Photo Contest!

1st Place – Bill Farrell, 2nd Place – Cooper Smith and 3rd Place was also Bill Farrell.

Also, at the last chapter meeting it was decided to change the bi-monthly chapter contest to the whole month instead of the last two weeks. This will not affect the October Contest however which will remain October 1-11th, This is to allow judging and printing of the Calendar in time for the November meeting.

Therefore, we are currently in the beginning of the March Photo Contest which runs the whole month. So get out trackside and shoot something! Each dues paying member is allowed to submit up to two JPGs for each contest. Deadline for submissions  remain the same, the 7th of the following month.

Here’s the schedule for the current and upcoming contests!

March 1-31, 2022
Submission Deadline: April 7, 2022

May 1-31, 2022
Submission Deadline: June 7, 2022

July 1-31, 2022
Submission Deadline: August 7, 2022

September 1-30, 2022
Submission Deadline: October 7, 2022

October 1-11, 2022
Submission Deadline: October 14, 2022 to allow time for the chapter calendars to be printed in time for the holidays.

January 1-31, 2023
Submission Deadline: February 7, 2022

Winners of the January 2022 Photo Contest and other entries are:

2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS January 2022 Photo Contest by Cooper Smith. A Norfolk Southern manifest kicks up snow as it heads westbound through St. Louis, MO.
3rd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS January 2022 Photo Contest by Bill Farrell. Looking North from Pembroke Yard as the snow falls at Pembroke, KY.
West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS January 2022 Photo Contest Entry: CSX 6914 heads south at Guthrie, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision. Photo by Cooper Smith.
West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS January 2022 Photo Contest Entry: CSX 4547 leads a mixed freight south through Mortons Gap KY on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS January 2022 Photo Contest Entry: CSX 3184, Honoring Law Enforcement unit, leads one of the intermodals north on my birthday at Mortons Gap KY on the Henderson Subdivision.  – Photo by Ricky Bivins

October 2021 Chapter Photo Contest Winners and entries

October 20, 2021 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS October 2021 Photo Contest by Bill Grady. As the early Fall air has cooled down during the late afternoon, sunset begins to shine down on Norfolk Sothern’s Louisville District at Buechel, Kentucky.
2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS October 2021 Photo Contest by Ricky Bivins. The tail end of a Florida Brightline Trainset makes its way south at Mortons Gap, Kentucky on the Henderson Subdivision on CSX W989.
Norfolk Southern #60P led by CP #8138 (AC4400CWM) is a loaded Potash Train from Canada and is headed to the Clark Maritime Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
CSX J732 heads south through Mortons Gap KY on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Ricky Bivins