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!!
1st Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS March 2022 Photo Contest – A BNSF Manifest is running westbound on BNSF’s Fallbridge Subdivision which follows the Columbia River on the Washington State side. The Columbia River is unusually calm in this stretch. This location is Lyle, Washington. March 18, 2022. Photo by Bill Grady2nd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS March 2022 Photo Contest – Montana Rail Link’s Day Gas Local is headed railroad east out of Thompson Falls, Montana loaded towards Missoula, Montana on March 16, 2022. This location is called Eddy, MT. Photo by Bill Grady3rd Place winner of the West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS March 2022 Photo Contest – March 19, 2022: Raging through a field north of Adams, TN, I026 catches the final few minutes of sunlight as it runs north. Photo by Cooper SmithMarch 14, 2022: USAX 6520 slowly pulls from the CSX Interchange Point at Hopkinsville, KY with a load of military equipment bound for Fort Campbell. Photo by Cooper Smith.2022-03-19 Savoy IL BNSF7355 ES44DC; Sometimes railfanning with a friend who is not a real train nerd can pay off. When we found this train, all I heard was ‘I drive, you shoot!’ After one of many attempts at different camera settings, here we are. Seen here in Savoy, IL., BNSF ES44DC #7355 heads north up the CN Champaign Sub where it will take a brief pause in Champaign yard to do some switching before making its way north to Chicago. Photo by Matt GentryCanadian Pacific 7047 leads a northbound through downtown Mortons Gap, Kentucky on March 16th, 2022 along the Henderson Subdivision. Photo by Rick Bivins2022-03-19 Paxton IL CN3263 ET44AC; As a railfan, I think the majority of us tend to only shoot on nice, sunny days. I admit that I am usually one of those people. But when the day was planned a couple weeks earlier, you go out in spite of the weather. And sometimes a cloudy, moody day can work in your favor! Like this train here that is headed south down the CN Chicago Sub in Paxton, IL. with CN ET44AC #3263 in charge of a loaded ballast train. This train will change crews up ahead in Champaign and continue its journey south. Photo by Matt GentryA NB empty coal train with Canadian National 3131 as the South facing DPU heads through CN’s Edgewood Cutoff at Maxon Junction on March 19th, 2022 as it heads north at Paducah KY. Photo by Rick Bivins
