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2016 O Scale Modular Layout was in Hopkinsville at The Polar Express Day

January 14, 2017 Jim Pearson No Comments Photo Section

Our first outing for the O Scale Modular Layout was in Hopkinsville at The Polar Express Day, Carnegie Library.  Chapter members Rich Hane, Bill Farrell, Blair Terry, and Ricky Bivins worked hard to make sure the display was ready to run! 

Blair Terry is pictured with the Polar Express conductor.

 
More from the Polar Express Day in Hopkinsville. Here is a multi-scale modular layout on display.

 

All Things Trains and Photography by Jim Pearson

November 20, 2016 Jim Pearson No Comments Jim Pearson, Photo Section

Jim will be back after the first of the new year with more helpful information about rail photography.  For now, enjoy a few more examples of his work below.

November 12, 2016 - Indiana Railroad's newly painted "In Honor of Our Veterans" engine 4005 (SD40-2), sits at the north end of CSX's Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana. The unit was freshly painted at the National Railway Equipment Co. shops in Mt. Vernon, Illinois and is waiting to move on north along CSX's CE&D Subdivision for delivery to the Indiana Railroad. - Photo by Jim Pearson
November 12, 2016 – Indiana Railroad’s newly painted “In Honor of Our Veterans” engine 4005 (SD40-2), sits at the north end of CSX’s Howell Yard in Evansville, Indiana. The unit was freshly painted at the National Railway Equipment Co. shops in Mt. Vernon, Illinois and is waiting to move on north along CSX’s CE&D Subdivision for delivery to the Indiana Railroad. – Photo by Jim Pearson
November 16, 2016 - A CSX L688 passes the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky with Atlantic Coast Line engine 7889 leading it's 11,500ft train, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. - Photo by Jim Pearson
November 16, 2016 – A CSX L688 passes the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky with Atlantic Coast Line engine 7889 leading it’s 11,500ft train, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. – Photo by Jim Pearson
November 16, 2016 - Huron and Eastern Railway 2026 (GP38-3) brings up the rear of the power lash up on CSX L688 as it passes the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky with a 11,500ft train, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. Huron and Eastern Railway is a short line railroad operating 384 miles of track in The Thumb and Flint/Tri-Cities area of the lower peninsula of Michigan. - Photo by Jim Pearson
November 16, 2016 – Huron and Eastern Railway 2026 (GP38-3) brings up the rear of the power lash up on CSX L688 as it passes the south end of the siding at Slaughters, Ky with a 11,500ft train, as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision. Huron and Eastern Railway is a short line railroad operating 384 miles of track in The Thumb and Flint/Tri-Cities area of the lower peninsula of Michigan. – Photo by Jim Pearson

August 5, 2016 CSX meet at Hanson, Ky – Photo by Jim Pearson

September 19, 2016 Jim Pearson No Comments Jim Pearson, Photo Section

This is a larger reprint of a shot used in Jim Pearson’s photography column last month. I thought it deserved another and larger look. – Bill Thomas, Editor

August 5, 2016 – Southbound CSX loaded coal train N320 (Evansville, IN (EVWR) - Cross, SC) meets W987-30 with a load of windmill motors waiting to go north from the north end of Hanson siding as N320 makes it's way south on the Henderson Subdivision at Hanson, Ky. - Tech Info: 1/640 | f/13 | ISO 720 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 290mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.
August 5, 2016 – Southbound CSX loaded coal train N320 (Evansville, IN (EVWR) – Cross, SC) meets W987-30 with a load of windmill motors waiting to go north from the north end of Hanson siding as N320 makes it’s way south on the Henderson Subdivision at Hanson, Ky. – Tech Info: 1/640 | f/13 | ISO 720 | Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 290mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW.