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September 2019 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

October 26, 2019 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners

September 2019 Photo Contest Results

We had a total of nine entries for the July 2019 chapter photo contest and the chapter members selected the winners during our October 2019 meeting.

Our last contest of 2019 will run from November 1-15th and the deadline for entries will be November 17th, 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 November 17th!

First Place, September 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – The East Chattanooga Station Platform during the night photo session of the 2019 L&N Railroad Convention at Chattanooga, Tennessee. – Photo by Keith Kittinger
Second Place, September 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – It’s a warm September afternoon on Lake Michigan in southern Wisconsin and number 4606 (nicknamed the Green Hornet) has pulled streetcar duty today for the Kenosha Transit System. Established in 2000, the two mile route through the downtown and park districts is one of Kenosha’s major attractions, hosting over 65,000 riders a year. – Photo by Chris Dees
Third Place, September 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – Saturday, September 28, 2019. NB at Crofton KY during the NRHS Chapter Picnic. – Photo by Rick Ricky Bivins

July 2019 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

August 22, 2019 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners

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

May 2019 Chapter Photo Contest Results

June 20, 2019 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, 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.

**First Place, May 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest** – The “Big Boy” and UP’s 844 double headed, eastbound between Laramie and Cheyenne, WY. – Photo by Blair Terry

**Second Place, May 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest** – The Big Boy 4014 on the fly at Medicine Bow, WY. on May 19, 2019. – Photo by Bill Farrell

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.

Third Place, May 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest – After a crew change at Bruceton, Tennessee, CSX Q532 is rolling onto the west approach of the bridge over Kentucky Lake at New Johnsonville, Tennessee on May 29, 2018. – Photo by Bill Grady

**Honorable Mention, May 2019, West Kentucky NRHS Photo Contest** – A Paducah and Louisville railway coal train heads north through Princeton, KY on it’s way to Warrior Coal in Madisonville. – Photo by Cooper Smith

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!

Congratulations to Bill Grady and and Ricky Bivins!! Our next contest runs from May 1-15, 2018 Submission Deadline: May 22, 2018. Your entries must be taken during this time periord and submitted to Jim Pearson by the deadline. Email your entries to: jim@jimpearsonphotography.com

First Place Winner, March 2018 Chapter Photo Contest by Bill Grady

Second Place Winner, March 2018 Chapter Photo Contest by Ricky Bivins

Third Place Winner, March 2018 Chapter Photo Contest by Ricky Bivins

January 2018 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

February 23, 2018 Jim Pearson No Comments Bill Farrell, Bill Grady, Chapter Photo Contest, 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

Photography Contest News

January 12, 2018 Jim Pearson No Comments All things Trains and Photography, Chapter Photo Contest, News

Note: These are date changes from what appeared in the Pennyrile! I’ve made these adjustments to better allow the production of the calendar in time for the holidays.

Below are the dates for upcoming chapter photo contests. During the months listed all members are invited to shoot pictures and submit no more than two entries to webmaster@westkentuckynrhs.org by the deadline listed next to each contest. You must be a paid member of the chapter to participate in these contests.

Jim Pearson 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.

January 1-31, 2018
Submission Deadline: February 7, 2018

March 1-15, 2018
Submission Deadline: March 22, 2018

May 1-15, 2018
Submission Deadline: May 22, 2018

July 1-15, 2018
Submission Deadline: July 22, 2018

September 1-15, 2018
Submission Deadline: September 22, 2018

November 1-15, 2018
Submission Deadline: November 22, 2018

November 2017 Photography Contest Winners

January 12, 2018 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners

Here’s links where you can purchase copies of our 2018 Chapter Calendars

Small Calendar 8.5×11 -$16.95 + shipping

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Large Wall Calendar 13×19 $25.95 + Shipping

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August 2017 Photo Contest Winners

September 18, 2017 Jim Pearson No Comments Bill Grady, Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Contest Winners, Photo Section, Rick Bivins

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

May 2017 Photo Contest Winners

May 17, 2017 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, General Post

Congratulations to the winners of our May 2017 Chapter photo contest! Out of a field of 14 entries I have selected the top four and they are: 1st Place, Bill Ferrell, 2nd Place, Bill Grady, 3rd Place, Blair Terry and 4th Place went to Chris Dees.

We want to thank everyone for their participation and look forward to seeing your entries for our next chapter contest which will run the Week of July 31 – Aug 6, 2017.

The other entries were:

February 2017 West Ky NRHS Chapter Photo Contest Winners Announced

February 27, 2017 Jim Pearson No Comments Bill Grady, Chapter Photo Contest, Matt Gentry, Photo Contest Winners, Rick Bivins

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.

August 2016 Chapter Photo Contest Winners

August 17, 2016 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest

We had a great selection of 11 entries for the August 2016 chapter photo contest. It was a bit of a short deadline for getting them in and hopefully that didn’t keep someone from entering. Our next and last contest for the year will be October from the 1st to the 8th and the deadline for emailing your entries to me is October 11th. Again, I’ll be out of town during the next meeting, but will judge the contest from the road and send the winning entries to Bill Thomas for the Pennyrail and Bill Ferrell so he can show the winners during the next meeting. We will the work on putting together a calendar using the winning entries. I’ll have a report on that for the November 2016 meeting. Send your entries for the October Photo Contest (Chapter Members only) to jim@jimpearsonphotography.com

1st Place August 2016 - Photo by Bill Grady — 1st Place August 2016 – Photo by Bill Grady

2nd Place August 2016 - Photo by Matt Gentry , NB_Illini - Curtis Rd - A 30 minute late North Bound Illini prepares to blast through the Curtis Rd crossing south of downtown Champaign, IL during midday on August 7, 2016. One wouldn't think that the train is going to stop at Champaign-Urbana station in just over a mile, but this former Illinois Central line is pancake flat and this veteran GE P42 can be put down easily. (Notice the antenna plane on the roof over the left side of the cab. This is special to Illinois Corridor Amtrak locomotives only) — 2nd Place August 2016 – Photo by Matt Gentry , NB_Illini – Curtis Rd – A 30 minute late North Bound Illini prepares to blast through the Curtis Rd crossing south of downtown Champaign, IL during midday on August 7, 2016. One wouldn’t think that the train is going to stop at Champaign-Urbana station in just over a mile, but this former Illinois Central line is pancake flat and this veteran GE P42 can be put down easily. (Notice the antenna plane on the roof over the left side of the cab. This is special to Illinois Corridor Amtrak locomotives only)

3rd Place August 2016 - Photo by Keith Kittenger — 3rd Place August 2016 – Photo by Keith Kittenger