An all-NS day at Warrior Coal. Photo by Bill Thomas
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Photos from the Pennyrail Newsletter
A LITTLE ODD – This loaded CSX coal train on the Warrior branch, Madisonville was long hood forward on February 10, 202, when editor Bill Thomas caught it idling and waiting on a crew.
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The engine number is obscured, but this late model Southern Pacific cab-forward is sticking its nose out of a dead-end tunnel. Say-what..? The location is Cascade Summit on the line from Eugene to Klamath Falls, Oregon.
A helper district from Oakridge ended here at the summit. The helpers were cut off and turned on a wye for the return trip downhill. The problem here at Cascade Summit was cramped space, and a turning wye requires a fair amount of real estate to function.
Problem solved, burrow a tunnel long enough negotiate the movement. The track leading out of the picture to the left links up with the Westbound mainline towards Klamath Falls. The other towards Oakridge and Portland. . A turntable was impractical unless covered, and snowplows easily keep the wye clear. To my knowledge this arrangement is unique to the Southern Pacific. Photo and caption submitted by Gary Ostlund.
My daughter in NY sent me this snap shot of her cat.
Anyone see any resemblance to a famous RR mascot?
Hint: Sleep like a kitten…
Editor’s Choice – Meadow River Lumber Company steam locomotive, Heisler No. 6, leads a freight train past a wetlands area at Hosterman, West Virginia during the Mountain Rail WV, Rail Heritage Photography Weekend. The event was held at the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, Durbin, WV, and Cass Scenic Railroad, Cass, WV, from November 4-6th, 2022.
Click on images for full view.
Cedar Rapids and Iowa City MP15DC number 130 sits in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa deadline on September 7, 2022. Photo by Chris Dees
Wisconsin Southern train T003 (Janesville, WI to Horicon, WI manifest) patiently awaits at the Grand Avenue home signal in Waukesha, Wisconsin on August 14, 2022. Once the CN Waukesha Subdivision dispatcher gives the green light, T003 will proceed on CN trackage rights to Slinger, WI and get back on home rails for the run to Horicon. Photo by Chris Dees.
A Moment in Time – It’s August 25, 1994, as Midwest Coal Handling prepares to depart P&L’s Central City, Kentucky yard back to TVA’s Paradise Steam Plant. The four locomotive consist included CF7 2508, GP7u 2005, CF7 2525, and another unidentified CF7. CF7 2525 was still wearing the paint of previous owner Nashville & Eastern. Today CF7 2508 survives in Enid, Oklahoma serving Consolidated Grain & Barge. Photo by Evan Werkema, Chris Dees collection.
CSX L382 puts out a bit of smoke as it pulls away from WF Ware after picking up a cut of grain cars at Trenton, Kentucky on July 12th, 2022, on the Henderson Subdivision. L382 is the local that runs between Casky yard in Hopkinsville and Guthrie, Ky and here we catch it as it starts its run back to Casky. Photo and caption by Jim Pearson.
On Saturday, June 11, the Madisonville community and some of our chapter members enjoyed the Life Steam-Up at the home of Kathy and Ed Saley, who recently purchased the old Metcalfe home on Princeton Road. Ed has constructed an elevated G gauge track system for running his and his father’s live steamers. Ed also has live steam ships and stationary steam engines on display. He can be found tinkering with the equipment most afternoons after sundown during the summer. Click images for full view!
LORAM Railgrinder RG414 grinds through a curve as it makes its way south at Nortonville, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on May 23rd, 2022. According to LORAM’s Website: Rail grinding is the cornerstone of virtually every railroad maintenance program. It maximizes the life and value of rail assets through precision removal of fatigued metal, restoration of the rail head profile and removal of rail defects which are the optimization goals of an effective rail grinding program. Jim Pearson
The Black Hills Central Railway locomotive 108 heads through the countryside as it makes its first trip of the day in stormy, wet weather of the forest to Keystone, South Dakota on my birthday, May 30th, 2022! I for one can’t recall a better way to spend the day then chasing a steam locomotive and they later in the day riding it with family! Despite the wet and rainy weather, it was a great day, and I even got the drone up a few times! A big shout out to Cory Jakeway for all the help on finding my way around on the railroad and rail-fanning with me! Photo by Jim Pearson
Did you know the NRHS Alco Historic Photos is the custodian of a collection of almost 300,000 photographic negatives and about 10,000 drawings and documents relating to the ACO and its successor ALCO Products? Take a few moments to browse around the NRHS website and you’ll find some interesting things like this Amtrak RS3.
Congratulations to Cooper Smith our first place and Bill Grady second place winners of our May 2022 chapter photo contest ! A reminder also that our July 2022 contest is currently underway and it runs for the whole month. All the entries may be viewed on the chapter’s website or our Facebook Group.
Each dues paying member is allowed to submit two photographs taken anywhere during the month. Entries with captions should be sent to jim@jimpearsonphotography.com by midnight on August 7th, 2022.
Get out trackside and shoot some pictures!!!
Below are the winners of our March 2022 photography contest and entries! Thanks for everyone who participated and we are currently in the middle of our month-long May contest! Get out and shoot something for the contest!!
military equipment bound for Fort Campbell. Photo by Cooper Smith.
along the Henderson Subdivision. Photo by Rick Bivins
Steve Gentry happened upon these RJ Corman units at a sand and gravel distributor on River Road in Louisville March 14, 2022. Could the sky have been any more perfect?
RJC 3806 is a GP 38 rebuild – one of my favorites! My opinion, the GPs and SDs and the greatest looking faces and bodies.