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

Moving at Milton – Two of Wisconsin & Southern’s new roster additions are on the move at the
Milton, WI ethanol facility on the morning of October 13, 2023. SD60M 6023 is in the WSOR paint
scheme, while sister 6031 is in patched out paint of its former owner Union Pacific.

New Paint at Janesville – On the morning of October 13, 2023, Wisconsin & Southern SD60M
6022 awaits its next assignment at the Janesville, WI engine terminal. 6022 is one of several
ex-Union Pacific units recently acquired by the Badger State’s largest regional railroad.

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
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.

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.

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