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Author: Ryan Scott

  • CSXT 911 GE ES44AH

    CSX Transportation CSXT 911 GE ES44AH, SPIRIT OF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS is painted in vibrant red with white and gold striped accents along with program partners First Responders Children’s Foundation logo and Operation Gratitude. It also features Fire, police and Ambulance services logos.

    The day before this shot 911 was in the lead as it was loading at Alliance Coal Loop with a coal train bound for Newport News, VA then it was tied down in the loop overnight. The next mourning on August 13, 2022, I got this shot but a few hours after this shot 911 would end up as DPU power after the crew switches the power around to head north as C895 in Princeton, Indiana on August 13, 2022.

  • CITX 3071 EMD SD40-2

    CIT Group, CITX 3071 EMD SD40-2 Rebuilt (SD40) leased to Road & Rail Services as they switch out scrap metal from Green Metals and coil cars from Millennium Steel Service behind them in Princeton, Indiana on August 8, 2022.

  • Union Pacific Hight Line Bridge

    Union Pacific crossover the Hight Line Bridge at sunset in Kansas City, Missouri on June 29, 2022.

  • CSXT 907 GE ES44AC-H

    CSX Transportation, CSXT 907 GE ES44AC-H leading an Intermodal I029 over the long approach to the Henderson bridge over the Ohio River, this location is known as Rahm in Evansville, Indiana on July 21, 2022.

  • CSXT 839 GE ES44AC-H

    CSX Transportation, CSXT 839 GE ES44AC-H leading a grain train over the long approach to the Henderson bridge over the Ohio River, this location known as Rahm in Evansville, Indiana on July 21, 2022.

    The original viaduct was constructed in 1885 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. In 1932 the current viaduct was built and was 12,123 feet long, the bridge over the Ohio River taking up 648 feet of that distance.

    The new span over the Ohio River was designed and built to be used as a double track and the approach pier has a block puzzle design for interlocking the existing pier to the new pier to allow a second approach. The bridge was built for a double track.

    However, the second approach was never built, and I was told by a CSX employee that the track on the bridge is too close for the harmonic rocking of the trains.

  • CSXT 3030 GE ES44AC-H

    CSX Transportation, CSXT 3030 GE ES44AC-H crossing over the Patoka River with Intermodal train ID I028 in Patoka, Indiana on July 20, 2022.

  • KCS 4156 EMD SD70ACe

    Kansas City Southern, KCS 4156 EMD SD70ACe leads a mixed freight. Jim Pearson Photography and I were on our way home from Kansas City and stopped at this location and met Drew Davison he told us that there was a KCS train heading this way and this train usually runs through here at night so we waited and waited and waited then it did finally get here, I think the wait was worth it in Marshall, Missouri on June 30, 2022.

  • UP 1771 EMD SD40N

    Union Pacific, UP 1771 EMD SD40N (Rebuilt SD40) Passing through Santa Fe Junction and will curve off to the right and cross over the Kansas River on the lower half of the Kansas Hight Line in Kansas City, Missouri on June 30, 2022.

  • PAL 1986 EMD Road Slug

    Paducah and Louisville Railways PAL 1986 EMD Road Slug (GP35) and PAL 2021 are working the yard as they have just been renumbered and repainted for the railway’s 35th anniversary with a blast from the past original 1986 paint scheme in Paducah, Kentucky on July 6, 2022.

  • AMTK 144 GE P42DC

    Amtrak, AMTK 144 GE P42DC leading the Southwest Chief at Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, Missouri on June 29, 2022.