Hi everyone. I thought y'all might enjoy some photos I've taken this week. Work has been stressful, so I've been out with the camera a lot. I shot the NS on the CNO&TP in New Albany, IN and Buechel, KY. The CSX is on the L&N "shortline" at the Frankfort Avenue crossing.
Well great photos! Kinda cool to see another local railfan on here! I like the one at Frankfort AVE. If you look in my Railimages I have alot of photos from that area!
Man have I ever seen you before? Where was the second photo taken at I dont reconize that place. The first one is there at that grain tower near the riverfront. Do you have a photo editing software?
NS Fan 14, Photo editing software is free. Depending on what version of windows you have you might have: Microsoft Photo Editor Fairly basic but still a few nice features. My favorite is: "Irfanview" Completely free at: www.irfanview.com I strongly recommend you try it out.
No I got a software. I was asking him cause some of his photos appear to be dark. No offense please dont take me wrong!
NSFan14: I don't believe that we have ever crossed paths, being that I have only been fanning/ photographing for about 2 weeks. I'm a life- long modeler, but photos are new for me. I'm sure that at some point we will run into one another. As for editing software...I have Kodak easyshare and whatever came on my notebook. All of the above pics are "stock", so to speak. They were some of the better ones from the past week. Believe me, I took a lot of blurry, sideways duds, as well. I'm not really fond of the UP photo, but I've been trying to get a shot of train passing the Monon Ave. street sign for a while. My camera is a pretty inexpensive digital Kodak z740, or something like that. 4 megapixels, I think. I try not to edit my photos as it puts a bit more pressure on me to take good shots to begin with. I will do it to save a particularly cool one, though. Oh yeah...The second photo is also on the New Albany riverfront/ mansion row area- right behind Culbertson mansion. If you turn about 180 degrees from the first photo, you get the second. 9713 was in the hole while the intermodal train passed and went across the bridge. 9713 had just come across from Louisville, and was waiting for a pair of helpers for the climb to Georgetown.
Hey nathan do you know where this was taken at? Im sure you do cause its 1of 3 street running locations in the area.
Ooooh... Street track!!!! Please post that in our two street running threads, the one here in the photo section and the one in railfan discussions.
Where to start... Yeah, the photos are dark due to a combination of very overcast weather or higher speed shots, but I don't mind as long as they're fairly clear. Like I said, my camera is nothing special, and frankly neither is the photographer. That street running looks like 15th street here in New Albany, but I'm not overly sure due to not having the chance to shoot the area yet. Helpers in Indiana? You bet your caboose. We have something called Floyd's Knobs that are darn near mountainous. It's actually quite amazing how many really tough grades we have in the Ohio Valley area. Just remember, we aren't very far from the "Rathole Division". Muldraugh Hill is a tough number between Louisville and Radcliff, Kentucky, as well. I'm not sure, but I bet that one could find helpers all over the country where we wouldn't expect. One thing that I've always thought was interesting is how much the railroad hobby can teach you about geography and other parts of the country.
O'Bannon yesterday before the rain. I did about a half hour at O'Bannon yesterday watching this Osborn drag get underway. He pulled out past Chamberlain once, shoved back into the plant to couple up more cars and then made another pull. And all this during the height of rush hour. I saw about half a dozen people run the gates while this was going on. Louisville should consider cameras at this crossing, especially since it is dual track and trains can cross from either direction. The sun went behind a cloud as the train started its run for Osborn.
Yes that picture was taken on 15th streetin New Albany. And yes the grade to the tuneel I belive is something like 2.34% or something like that. The normally have 2 locos on the back the help the train up the hill.
Muldraugh Hill is an escarpment that stretches south and east from near the Ohio River into the state. There are two crossings of Muldraugh Hill that should be considered for gradient. The first one is on the old L&N line from Lebanon Junction to Elizabethtown. The other one is on the old IC line, now PAL from West Point to Muldraugh. There is sometimes a helper stationed at Lebanon Jct to give a shove to southbound CSX trains. I don't know the operating criteria as to what tonnage requires a shove up this hill. I have never seen any helpers on the PAL line.
I also know of a hill helper from Cincinnati that pushes heavy trains up Erlanger Hill. The loco's are stationed at Gest Street Yard, the beginning of the CNO&TP.
WOW!!! Lots of Kentuckians on here! Muldraugh is a tough pull but the Monon has its fair share of quick steep grades. It makes for some CRAZY train handling. By the way, there is no longer a helper at Lebanon Jct. due to CSX's ever increasing efforts to cut jobs.
