First Place, July 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – CSX locomotive # 958 pulls an intermodal south on the Henderson Subdivision after emerging from the south portal of Ridgetop Tunnel, north of Baker Station crossing in Ridgetop Tennessee on May 30, 2019. – Photo by Bill Farrell. 
Second Place, July 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – CSX locomotive # 958 pulls an intermodal south on the Henderson Subdivision after emerging from the south portal of Ridgetop Tunnel, north of Baker Station crossing in Ridgetop Tennessee on May 30, 2019. – Photo by Bill Farrell. 
Third Place, July 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – Illinois Central 1026 and 1000 lead a northbound CN mixed freight on the Centralia Subdivision at Champaign, Illinois on July 29, 2019. – Photo by Rick Bivins 
Honorable Mention, July 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – BNSF 665 Santa Fe War Bonnet with no patches makes its way south on the Thayer Subdivision on July 5th, 2019 at Mammoth Spring, Arkansas. It’s a GE Model Dash 9-44 CW Series, Build date 8-9-94. – Photo by Donny Knight
Category: Photo Contest Winners
We had a total of ten entries for the May 2019 chapter photo contest and all of them were really tough to judge, but I finally narrowed it down to 4 winners.
Blair Terry took first place with a nice pan shot of UP 4014 and 844! Our second place winner was his grandpa, Bill Farrell with Big Boy 4014 underway at Medicine Bow, Wy.
Third place winner was Bill Grady with a overhead view of CSX Q532 at Johnsonville, TN and Honorable mention went to Cooper Smith for his dramatic photograph of a Paducah and Louisville Coal train pulling hard as it passes through Princeton, Ky.
Our next contest will run from July 15-31st and the deadline for entries will be August 7th, 2019. Send your entries to me (no more than 2 per paid chapter member) at webmaster@westkentuckynrhs.org or jim@jimpearsonphotography.com by midnight on August 7th!
Our Chapter’s 2019 Calendar is now available online for purchase. It contains the winning photos from our membership from our photo contests this year. Follow the link to purchase one and support our chapter! They are $14.00 each and just in time for Christmas! You may purchase copies here: http://www.lulu.com/…/2019-w…/calendar/product-23880274.html
Here’s links where you can purchase copies of our 2018 Chapter Calendars
Small Calendar 8.5×11 -$16.95 + shipping
http://www.lulu.com/shop/jim-pearson/2018-west-ky-nrhs-small-calendar/calendar/product-23458388.html
Large Wall Calendar 13×19 $25.95 + Shipping
Below are the winning entries from our August 2017 Chapter Photo Contest from a field of nine entries. Our next and last contest of the year will run from November 1-31, 2017 with a Submission Deadline of December 7, 2017
The monthly photo contest has changed!
From now on each contest will run for a full month! Starting from the 1st and going to the last day. This should give everyone the opportunity to get trackside and shoot something. Deadline for submitting your photos will be the 7th day of the following month. There will still be a limit of two entries per member however.
Submit no more than two entries each to webmaster@westkentuckynrhs.org by the 7th following the month of the contest. You must be a paid member of the chapter to participate in these contests.
I will judge the photos and select 1st through 3rd place and the winners will be presented in the PennyRail and on the chapter website. We’ll also view them at the meeting following each contest.
At least the 1st place winners will be used to produce a chapter calendar for the next year.
All submissions must have a caption that lists at least the railroad, location and date with photographer’s credit and any other relevant information.
Thanks to Bill Farrell for suggesting the change!
If you want to mark your calendars for next year this is the schedule for the contest!
November 1-31, 2017
Submission Deadline: December 7, 2017
January 1-31, 2018
Submission Deadline: February 7, 2018
March 1-31, 2017
Submission Deadline: April 7, 2018
May 1-31, 2017
Submission Deadline: June 7, 2018
July 1-31, 2017
Submission Deadline: August 7, 2018
September 1-30, 2017
Submission Deadline: October 7, 2018
November 1-30, 2017
Submission Deadline: December 7, 2018
Congratulations to the winners of our chapter’s first photo contest of the year! Contest was held during the month of February 2017 and the winning photos and captions are posted below! Click on any photo to see a larger view.
First Place, Bill Grady – With the Top Brass on board, NS #950 arrives about 5:30 in the afternoon after an all day trip from St. Louis. Shown here arriving at the North End of NS’s Youngstown Yard (Louisville). Tomorrow the #950 will run like a scalded dog to Knoxville, Tennessee. Shot made on October 4, 2016.
Second Place, Bill Grady – L&N 411 makes it way South towards New Haven, KY on the L&N Lebanon Branch. This is now part of the Kentucky Railway Museum. Taken at Holton Valley Road on October 1, 2016.
Third Place Rick Bivins – West end of P&L’s West Yard complex, in Madisonville, Ky looking east into the rising sun.
