Eastern Railroad Discussion > Snow & Heritage on the NS Louisville District

For the most part, this winter here in Central Kentucky has been cold and wet, but we have had little snow...very little. Most folks around these parts are probably rejoicing about that fact, but I am not one of them. I love snow (and bad weather in general) and love to be out in it with the camera when I can....

Last Saturday, we got our First significant snowfall of the season, after all the experts said it would amount to nothing!. Gage and myself had already planned on going out for the day and heading West on the PAL (the results of which I have already shared) but before we pointed the explorer West, we took advantage of the 5 + inches of fresh snow and shot a couple of trains on the Louisville District.

Later in the week, I lucked into being able to shoot the N&W 8103 again on the way home from work. Having a heritage engine "trapped" in that turn is always a good thing, as the power tends to stay on it for several weeks, and seeing as how it runs by my front door every couple of days, I dont have to go out of my way to shoot it! We have been lucky enough to have the Reading, Conrail, NYC and Erie units all spend time on that train, and now its the 8103's turn.

Here are a few samples from the past week, and be sure to check them all out in full sized over on my Pbase gallery at this link! >>> http://www.pbase.com/kd4jsl/nsls15

Saturday 01/24/15

#1 Westbound Steel train 61R rolls through Talmage, KY just after sunrise

#2 61R crosses old US 127 on the East Side of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky

#3 A UP dirty bird leads Eastbound M67 as the train climbs out of the Benson Creek Valley at Alton Station, KY. While this is not high on my list of favorite power, the winter landscape more than makes up for it!

E.M. Bell , KD4JSL
Salvisa, KY
Jreb.org NS group



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/15 16:32 by EMBell.

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01/30/15

#4 & 5 NS 890 rolls through the barren fields just East of Vanarsdale, KY. This train is headed to Danville, Ky where it will turn South down the CNO&TP and then to the TVA Kingston TN power plant to unload.

#6 The DPU's on 890 help make easy work of the grades on the Louisville District as they shove the train up to Talmage.

E.M. Bell , KD4JSL
Salvisa, KY
Jreb.org NS group

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Well done........

Any of those first three could be IOTD. Nice job,

Denny, Lakewood, OH

I delivered that N&W unit back to the NS after it loaded at a mine. Surprised me... Really clean on the inside! No anti-foam markings or anything.
Since that unit is pushing and it's wearing the N&W hamburger herald can we consider that Hamburger Helper?

This was my picture before boarding for the trip back to NS. Was getting dark so had to process it a little bit so it might be kind of fuzzy.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/15 20:42 by DR.

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Great bunch, especially snow shots.
JB

Nice set of shots.

Bob Wilcox
Charlottesville, VA
My Flickr Shots

Love those snow shots. Those trains look good in the white stuff. Kudos on a well-deserved IOTD.

Great photos. Congratulations on IOTD.

Ronda Thomas

I almost never go on Eastern Railroads, but am I glad I did with the IOTD!

The snow shots are great! Well done.

Michael

Great snow shots Emmet.

VERY NICE...!!! Thanks for sharing.

Great series as always Emmet. Glad to see one of your photos as IOTD too!

-Brian