Category: Jim Pearson
Our chapter member Jim Pearson produced this timelapse of CSX changing out the switch at Mortons Junction, Mortons Gap, Ky. He used his Nikon D800 to shoot a photo every 2 seconds and shot for a total of 8 hours which resulted in the video you see here.
July 1, 2015 – CSX Q029 passes loaded coal train N308 at MP 261 at the south end of Romney siding as they head south on the Henderson Subdivision at Nortonville, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/1600sec, f/4.5, ISO 900, Lens: Nikon 70-300 @ 102 mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
June 2, 2015 – Thanks to a heads up post by fellow railfan and great photographer Tom Barrows of Evansville, IN, I was able to catch my second Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit today! – Jim Pearson
When I arrived at the overlook to the Sitran Coal Dock and Abengoa ethanol plant at West Franklin, IN, the weather was overcast and it looked like it was going to be fairly bad, but the sun finally came out just as the train was leaving with Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072 in the lead.
The Illinois Terminal railroad along with many others was bought up by Norfork Southern years ago and NS has repainted about 20 of their engines in the paint schemes of many of those roads.
NREX engines 3531, 3528 and 3520 sit in the service area at CSX’s Atkinson Yard at Madisonville, Ky. From what I’ve been told the engines have been out of service for over 6 years and are on their way, via the Paducah and Louisville Railroad, to Progress Rail in Mayfield, Ky to be rebuilt. -Jim Pearson
April 22, 2015 – Paducah and Louisville engine 2111 leads a military train past loaded coal train 4516 at Cimarron Mine, which followed it north toward Louisville at Madisonville, Ky. -Jim Pearson
April 30, 2015 – Thanks to the Ky Highway department I was able to get this clear view of CSX Q026-24 as it headed north on the Henderson Subdivision through Romney at Nortonville, Ky. They’re clearing brush and trees along highway 41 in Nortonville which is making for some new nice views! To the left used to be nothing but brush and scraggly trees along the railroad which made it impossible to get clear views. -Jim Pearson
March 18, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s NDN1 heads up the SIGECO lead at Mt. Vernon, Indiana with a load of coal for the “Sitran Dock,” a subsidiary of M-Class mining that also owns Savtrans (the 12 miles of rail between McCleansboro and Sugar Camp mine). Once unloaded at the dock the coal is transferred by conveyor to their state-of-the-art barge loading facility nearby. Photo by Jim Pearson
April 4, 2015 – CSX Loaded coal train T087 heads through the cut approaching Adams, Tennessee after crossing the Red River Trestle as it moves it’s load south on the Henderson Subdivision. Photo by Jim Pearson