Eastern Railroad Discussion > B627 on the Big Sandy

Took a quick run up to the Big Sandy back on 1/20/24 to follow B627 (Ethanol loads for Charlotte) down in the fresh snow.  Here are a couple of images.  All photos were taken in Kentucky.

Photo #1:  CN #8837 leads B627 past the signals at "Dawkins" on the Big Sandy.

Photo #2:  CN #8837 leads B627 past the signals at "American Standard" just south of Prestonsburg.

Photo #3:  B627 is almost to it's crew change point at Shelby as it passes through the "Pikeville Cut-Through" where the mainline and highway were re-aligned many years ago.

Thanks for looking.

Grady McKinley
Asheville, NC

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/24 11:10 by Asheville_G.

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Nice shots there

Posted from Android

Nice work Grady!

Wow, great locations, great catch.
The red nose really pops.
Are these taken with a recent 'modern' camera, ie  Mirrorless, or high pixel sensor?
t4p.

Thanks for sharing.

That is some cliff in the third picture.

 

Asheville_G Wrote:
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> Photo #3:  B627 is almost to it's crew change
> point at Shelby as it passes through the
> "Pikeville Cut-Through" where the mainline and
> highway were re-aligned many years ago.

IOTD IMHO.  Very nice, thanks for posting.

mike woodruff
anacortes wa

ts1457 Wrote:
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> Thanks for sharing.
>
> That is some cliff in the third picture.
>
>  

Everything in the foreground, including the river, is man-made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through

The article is wrong about it being the second biggest earthmoving project in the western hemisphere.  The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway was a much larger project, and there are probably other examples also ignored.

 

IOTD...number one or three. Nice work...

baretables Wrote:
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> Everything in the foreground, including the river,
> is man-made.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through

Thanks, I learned something today.

Wow! I has no idea.

Great everything on these. Scenery, signals, snow and loks.

Taken with a Canon 6D. Not mirrorless. Can’t quite take that plunge yet.

TCnR Wrote:
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> Wow, great locations, great catch.
> The red nose really pops.
> Are these taken with a recent 'modern' camera,
> ie  Mirrorless, or high pixel sensor?
> t4p.

Posted from iPhone

Great series...

JG

Fantanstic shots!

Awesome shots, especially #3!

The presumed routing via Kingsport on the ex-Clinchfield underlines the importance of this Midwest-Piedmont and Midwest-Mid-Atlantic Tidewater route to CSX even as it's traditional role as a coal traffic corridor declines.

Too bad it can't clear double stacks because all other CSX or NS routes Chicago-Carolina are pretty circuitous. 

Great pics!!