Category: Photo Section
Photos from the Pennyrail Newsletter
Thanks to Ricky Bivins phone call I was able to catch Stewart Southern Railway’s #1503 Genset in a northbound CSX feight consist at Hanson, Ky on CSX’s Henderson Subdivision July 5, 2012. Opened in August 2010, the Stewart Southern Short Line Inc. runs 132 kilometres from Stoughton, SK Canada northwest along highway #33 up to Richardson, SK, just south of Regina. The route has stops at Heward, Creelman, Fillmore, Osage, Tyvan, Francis, Sedley and Lajord and Kronau. Companies and elevators as well as producers can take advantage of the access this line provides. It also creates incentive for new business starts in communities along the line.– Photo by Jim Pearson
Above are pictures of our team and display at the July 6th, Friday Night Live – We had a blast! Come out and join us August 10, old Courthouse lawn in Downtown Madisonville, Ky!
It’s not too often these days you see a caboose running down the rails at the end of a train. On June 24, 2012 in the afternoon an ex-Conrail Caboose CR 24012 sporting a brand new paint job rolled past the old L&N Railroad Station at Madisonville, Ky as it headed North toward Evansville on CSX’s Henderson Subdivision. – Top Photo by Jim Pearson. Bottom Photo by Chuck Hinrichs, at Caskey, KY.
On June 25. 2012 Jim Pearson videotaped a CP Ethanol train as it headed south through the curve approaching Romney at Nortonville, Ky on CSX’s Henderson Subdivision. This image is a still frame from his video clip which can be viewed here on the Chapter’s website at: http://www.westkentuckynrhs.org/archives/2184 – Photo by Jim Pearson
Beginning top left moving clockwise: The big news this month was the gathering of Norfolk-Southern’s Heritage Fleet of locomotives at North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, NC, just prior to July 4, 2012. This almost-unbelievable shot was taken by NS’s photography team.
Submitted by Andrew Futrell, via Jim Futrell.
Chicago Division – Leithton Subdivision – Joliet Yard Derailment – At1530-04 the BNSF crew, MGALNCNI-04 was yarding their train in Joliet Yard. The crew had shoved the first cut into track JM-08. The crew was instructed to set out the balance of their train into track JM-07, the conductor instead lined the cut into track JM-09 and there was a standing cut of 41 cars tied down in track JM-09. When the cars hit the standing cut of cars they derailed 6 cars. ALAB 9209 on its side, NOKL 827272 upright, UTLX 64952 empty residue upright, ECLX 16288 empty residue upright, PROX 30212 empty residue upright and UTLX 955435 empty residue upright. CN police, Chemtrec and DGO notified. The derailment has the north end of Joliet Yard shut down. Main 1, Main 2 and the run-through track in Joliet are still available to use. The BNSF crew was not protecting the point. The costs are still to be determined. No release of product and no injuries.
On the Maumee & Western in Defiance, OH – March 15, 2012. Caught this on the Railpictures website. No, this is not unlevel. No, this is not a derailment. Yes, the right of way needs some work. Here we see a Maumee & Western Railway westbound train stopped briefly to make certain they do not have any cars on the ground. Luckily it was a “false alarm” in the words of a crewman. The train was amazingly able to continue west to the yard and CSX interchange at Defiance, Ohio. The locomotive is M&W affiliate road Connersville & New Castle #5, a former Santa Fe GP7 rebuild. The railroad is a former Wabash line from Toledo, Ohio to Woodburn, Indiana. – Submitted by Chris Dees
Fred Ripley submitted (from the PRRT&HS courtesy of the fellow who owns the E8’s) this shot of Bennett Levin’s two E8’s, painted in the late 1950’s PRR broad-stripe scheme, and NS’s PRR heritage GE 8102.
Here’s pictures of our team and display at the June 8th, Friday Night Live – We had a blast! Come out and join us July 6, old Courthouse lawn in downtown Madisonville, KY!
Bill Heaton caught this “modern” diesel in Paducah, KY. Still hard to believe SP is history.
PEMBROKE (KY) — The driver of a tractor-trailer hauling farm equipment thought he had enough time to get across the train tracks to avoid being hit by the (CSX) train Thursday evening, but the trailer was struck In the rear, spinning the cab of the truck around and causing damage at the railroad crossing on Main Street in Pembroke. Excerpt by David Snow, Eagle Post.
