The winners for our January 2024 photo contest were Bill Grady for 1st  2nd, Place. Congratulations to you Bill and our next contest will run the full month of May 2024!

1st Place winner of the March 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest – NS #279 is on a downhill roll through Jeffersontown, KY on a splendid early spring afternoon. In just a few minutes, he will stop at Appliance Park to make his set-out. – March 26, 2024 Photo by bill Grady
2nd Place winner of the March 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest – Indiana Rail Road’s Daily except Saturday SAHW (Senate Ave/Indianapolis – Hiawatha Yard/Jasonville, IN) is moving right along through Morgantown, Indiana on a clear early spring Thursday, March 28, 2024. – Photo by Bill Grady

Other March 2024 Contest Entries

March 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest Entry – CSX locomotive 862 pulling a north bound mixed freight at Substation Road, on March 12th 2024. – Photo by William Farrell
March 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest Entry – CSX mixed freight southbound at Mortons Gap KY on March 24, 2024. 7:20 AM. – Photo by Rick Bivins
March 2024 West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest Entry – CSX mixed freight northbound at Mortons Gap KY on March 24, 2024. 7:20 AM. – Photo by Rick Bivins

We proud to announce the winners of the chapter’s first contest of the year! This year we’re doing the contest a little bit different by having the membership present for the meeting to judge the contest winners by selecting the photograph that they like the best. We had 7 entries in the January 2018 contest and after the first round of judging we had our first place winner by Bill Grady of Union Pacific power pulling a train at Jeffersontown, Ky. We also found we had a six way tie for second place!!! So, in order to break that we did a rejudge of the six images and came up with a two way tie, which we decided to let stand. The final tie for 2nd place was between Bill Farrell and Ricky Bivins. 

Our next contest will be from March 1-15, 2018 with a Submission Deadline of March 22, 2018. This contest will be judged at the April 16th meeting.

Your entries, no more than two, should be emailed to Jim Pearson at jim@jimpearsonphotography.com

Below are the winning entries for January 2018

1st Place West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest for January 2018 – Cold Temperatures keep the snow fresh as NS #167 with UP 8166 on the point is digging in to climb up the hill in Jeffersontown, KY. Photo by Bill Grady, 1-18-2018

2nd Place West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest for January 2018 – CSXT, 5312 Southbound out of Hopkinsville, Ky after crossing over the Skyline crossing, on January 13, 2018 on the Henderson Subdivision, Photo by Bill Farrell

2nd Place West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest for January 2018 – 2nd Place West Kentucky Chapter of the NRHS Photo Contest for January 2018 – A intermodal heads through Mortons Junction at at Mortons Gap, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision on January 12, 2018

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Locomotive 487 is pulling an Engineer Training School Freight Eastbound at Dalton, New Mexico on October 4, 2017. 

Bill Grady and Lee Gordon Spent 4 days on the C&TS riding and railfanning this incredible railroad in the peak of fall color in New Mexico and Colorado.  Then spent 4 more days on the BNSF and UP in New Mexico and Arizona. 

Photo by Bill Grady

 

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

1st Place, August 2017 – CSX Q504 is headed Northbound on the street running at LaGrange, KY on August 5th 2017. The folks in their cars seem like they don’t care, but they know it is coming. Photograph by Bill Grady

2nd Place, August 2017 – A surprise on CSX Train Q647 today as it comes through the work zone, as UP #6815 sports fresh paint leading the way at Nortonville, KY on 8-12-2017. Photograph by Bill Grady

3rd Place, August 2017 – CSX sets out track ties with a “Freightliner” locomotive! South bound at Mortons Gap KY. August 7, 2017. – Photograph by Rick Bivins

 

Right - In a surprise CSX Office Car Special Movement, CSX P901-11 is running track speed(60mph) by the South End of Bonnieville, KY siding. The train left Louisville with officials on board headed for Birmingham. Departing at 0700, It was shot here at 0822 at milepost 67. One can only think that this is how the L&N would run the Hummingbird. The L&N would be hitting 90 mph here back then. 8/11/15 - Bill Grady
In a surprise CSX Office Car Special Movement, CSX P901-11 is running track speed(60mph) by the South End of Bonnieville, KY siding. The train left Louisville with officials on board headed for Birmingham. Departing at 0700, It was shot here at 0822 at milepost 67. One can only think that this is how the L&N would run the Hummingbird. The L&N would be hitting 90 mph here back then. 8/11/15 – Bill Grady