Southbound elephant style rainbow colored train at Kelly KY Wood Print

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Southbound elephant style rainbow colored train at Kelly, KY

When I saw this train pass through Princeton, Indiana on the Virtual Railfan cameras at the depot there early on the morning of March 9th, 2021 I knew right away I wanted to catch it here as it went south on the Henderson Subdivision.

This shot represents 4 of the major railroads here in the United States and I can't ever recall getting one like it my my career of photographing trains.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe 3734, Canadian Pacific 8701 and Norfolk Southern 8177 lead CSX Q503 "elephant style" (nose of all the power pointing the same direction) as they split the signals at the north end of the siding at Kelly, Kentucky on the CSX Henderson Subdivision on a beautiful early spring day.

I was surprised somewhat by the symbol on this train as Q503 is normally just a mixed freight, but CSX combined an empty Potash train (Usually a K train) with Q503 and used the latter's symbol. CSX has been doing...

Jim worked as a photojournalist for The Messenger Newspaper in Madisonville, Kentucky for 17 years, a daily newspaper that serves the Western Kentucky market. Before that he served as a Photojournalist in the United States Air Force for 24 years, where he traveled the world photographing military operations as a member of Combat Camera. Today he freelances and produces Fine Art Photography that intrigues him and hopefully you the viewer. For information on availability for freelance assignments contact: Jim Pearson 4665 Earlington Road Madisonville, Ky 42431 jim@jimpearsonphotography.com