The winners for our July 2024 photo contest were Bill Grady 1st Place and Bill Grady for 2nd! Congratulations Bill and our next contest runs the month of September 2024! Entries due to Jim Pearson by midnight on October 7th.
1st Place West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2024 Photo Contest – Standing at the crossing at Sebree Springs, Kentucky, CSX M647’s head-end has cleared the city Limit of Sebree and the engineer notches them out to keep rolling South in this July 7, 2024 view.
Photo by Bill Grady2nd Place West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2024 Photo Contest – NS #168 is sounding the horn for the small community of Tazwell, Indiana. The up and down profile of NS’s Southern-East District can be seen in the “hump” here. – July 21, 2024 Photo by Bill GradyWest Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2024 Photo Contest – July, 30, 2024, A northbound MTA Metro North commuter train pulls into Southeast, NY, station on the “Harlem Line”. This former New York Central artery normally terminates a few more miles up the line in Wassaic, NY, but due to some heavy track maintenance Southeast it its northern terminal for a while. Shortly, this train set will back through the crossover and into the service yard unseen to the right followed by the southbound train making its way to the southbound platform from the same yard. The round trip from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, NY, was part of the travels during Bill, Angela, Joe Thomas’s trip to NY to see their daughter Fern and Angela’s sister Jodi. Top speed was about 60 mph according to the iPhone speedometer. – Photo by Bill ThomasWest Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2024 Photo Contest – July 28, 2024, From the former New York Central “high line” one can overlook the MTA’s Westside Yard in the Hudson Yards community of Manhattan, New York City. This section of the high line is called the Interim High Line Walkway. It was built as a ramp up to the main portion of the line along the Hudson River from W 30th to W 34th streets. The line moves east after doing a complete 180 degree turn then veers south to run parallel with 10th Ave. The historic elevated rail line replaced the street level tracks so important to the industrial businesses and life on Manhattan’s west side. The high line fell into disuse in the 1960s. CSX Transportation (RR) donated the structure to the city in 2005. Since then it has literally flourished as a walking nature trail above the streets with native plants installed among the rusting tracks. The line terminates at Ganesvoort St., in lower Manhattan. The yard tracks in this view end at the wall in the foreground. The tracks run east to Penn Station’s beautiful new Moynahan Train Hall where I arrived and departed on Amtrak 50 and 51, The Cardinal. – Photo by Bill ThomasWest Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2024 Photo Contest – The CSX Conrail Heritage unit leads Conrail a northbound freight at Mortons Gap, Ky on July 18, 2024. – Photo by Ricky BivinsWest Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS July 2024 Photo Contest – The CSX track working crew at Mortons Gap, Ky on July 18, 2024. – Photo by Ricky Bivins
