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Photos from the Pennyrail Newsletter

The First Photo Contest of the West Kentucky NRHS

June 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Chapter Photo Contest, Photo Section

Saturday May 9, 2015 brought about the first photo contest of the West Kentucky NRHS. The only rules set forth by our judge, Jim Pearson, were that you have to be a member of the WKNHRS and that the photo had to be taken on May 9th, which also happened to be National Train Day, so there was a happy coincidence. At our May meeting the chapter decided that we will hold two of these contests a year and the next one will be in November 2015. Date has yet to be determined.

The winners were as follows: 1st – Jim Kemp. 2nd – there was a 2 way tie for 2nd between Rick Bivins and Matt Gentry. 3rd – Bill Grady. Honorable Mention belongs to Blair Terry. Click on each photo to see the full picture.

Other entries were:

Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072 by Jim Pearson

June 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Jim Pearson, Photo Section

06.02.15 Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit leaves SYTRAN Dock 4, Mt. Vernon, IN

June 2, 2015 – Thanks to a heads up post by fellow railfan and great photographer Tom Barrows of Evansville, IN, I was able to catch my second Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit today! – Jim Pearson

When I arrived at the overlook to the Sitran Coal Dock and Abengoa ethanol plant at West Franklin, IN, the weather was overcast and it looked like it was going to be fairly bad, but the sun finally came out just as the train was leaving with Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit 1072 in the lead.

The Illinois Terminal railroad along with many others was bought up by Norfork Southern years ago and NS has repainted about 20 of their engines in the paint schemes of many of those roads.

June 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Matt Gentry, Photo Section
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BNSF #6750 leads its stack train west towards Los Angeles through Fullerton CA as Santa Fe 3751 simmers in the background as it awaits permission to back out onto main #1 to head back towards Los Angeles after being on display at Fullerton Railroad Days. – Matt Gentry

Former C&O main line at Alleghany, VA by Frederick J. Ripley

May 20, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Fred Ripley, Photo Section

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This view, taken on May 2, 2015, looks east on the former C&O main line at Alleghany, VA. At 2072 ft. above sea level, Alleghany is the summit of the C&O’s crossing of the mountains (note the spelling, “Alleghany”, vs “Allegheny” of PA and the PRR and B&O’s crossings). Coal here has always moved eastbound exclusively, towards tidewater at Newport News. In the final days of steam, loaded coal trains had two of the world’s most powerful steam locomotives, the C&O’s class H-8 2-6-6-6. The rear helper, put on at Hinton, WV, would cut off here, and return light to Hinton. With dieselization in 1956, the C&O settled on a standard lash-up of five GP9’s, which negated the need for a helper. Although long closed, the tower, “A Cabin” (cabin being the standard C&O term for interlocking towers) is in the classic C&O brick style, a plan used with variations system-wide. (photo copyright 2015 by Frederick J. Ripley).

CSX Q026-24 at Romney by Jim Pearson

May 20, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Jim Pearson, Photo Section

04.30.15 CSX Q026-24 NB at Romney, Nortonville, Ky

April 30, 2015 – Thanks to the Ky Highway department I was able to get this clear view of CSX Q026-24 as it headed north on the Henderson Subdivision through Romney at Nortonville, Ky. They’re clearing brush and trees along highway 41 in Nortonville which is making for some new nice views! To the left used to be nothing but brush and scraggly trees along the railroad which made it impossible to get clear views. -Jim Pearson

GP30 by Chris Dees

May 20, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Chris Dees, Photo Section

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Long known for hauling intermodal stack trains between Macon, GA and Savannah, GA, with high-nose GE units, one can now see GP30s hauling double stacks in 2015 on the Georgia Central Railroad. CGR operates 170 miles of railroad in the central portion of The Peach State, interchanging with CSX Transportation, Heart of Georgia Railroad and Norfolk Southern. – Chris Dees

Norfolk Southern’s NDN1 at Mount Vernon, In by Jim Pearson

April 16, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Jim Pearson, Photo Section

03.18.15 NS NDN1 Headed up the grade at West Franklin, In

March 18, 2015 – Norfolk Southern’s NDN1 heads up the SIGECO lead at Mt. Vernon, Indiana with a load of coal for the “Sitran Dock,” a subsidiary of M-Class mining that also owns Savtrans (the 12 miles of rail between McCleansboro and Sugar Camp mine). Once unloaded at the dock the coal is transferred by conveyor to their state-of-the-art barge loading facility nearby. Photo by Jim Pearson