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On February 22, 2014 a northbound CSX mixed freight, headed up by two UP engines, heads past the area where the new south lead will be for the new Casky Yards on the Henderson Subdivision will be located on John Rivers Road, south of Hopkinsville, Ky. Some construction has begun, but with the wet weather we’ve been having lately much of the dirt and track work has kept the equipment building the yard idle. – Jim Pearson
A CSX train derailed at Guthrie, Ky at 05:20 (CDT) on September 15, 2011. The Lead loco is just south of Fairgrounds Rd with a broken knuckle. The second loco is about 1/4 mile north upright at a 30 degree angle to the tracks. Between the Guthrie interlocking and the second loco (mostly on the west side of the tracks) is a large pile of orange Hamburg Sud 40′ containers with well cars sticking up at various angles.
Both tracks are blocked and it appears that the northbound signals may have been hit. To my UNTRAINED eye it appears that the train derailed in the interlocking or immediately south of it at the yard lead switch. This will not be a good day to railfan the Henderson Sub.
The dispatcher was talking reroutes but no specifics. Last derailment the TOFC and hot freights went from Evansville down the ‘Texas’ to Louisville and then down the Mainline Sub to Nashville. So keep an eye out on the Mainline for TOFC traffic today and maybe tomorrow (Sept. 16, 2011). – Steve Miller
I have posted some train frequency charts with data from a program that interfaces with ATCS Monitor.
The program counts trains as they pass the Hopkinsville, Ky holdout signal as either a northbound or
southbound using the signal indication on CSX’s Henderson Subdivision.
You can view November & December 2008 charts by clicking here
If any of you are interested I can keep this up for a while. Let me know.
Steve Miller