Jimmy Poling
Southern Style
CSX ES40DC 5264 leads a recrewed Q453 as O722 through West Palm Beach on a pretty nice evening in South Florida. Quite a rare catch for us South Florida railfans, and it was on a Sunday too.
Oh boy what a day this was for CSX. My friends and I had recieved word that Q453 had tied down in the Delta siding on the Auburndale Subdivision which is maybe 20-30 miles north of here. Q453s Winston crew went on the law so O722s Miami crew went to retrieve the train, Complications arose when the lead unit, SD70MACe rebuild 4536 would not load and could not lead the train of 100 or so cars. Originally, we thought that the slug set, YN2 6957 or other GP40-2s in Hialeah would make their way to retrieve the train as the yardmaster was driving the crew back to Hialeah. Unfortunately, that idea was scrapped and 5264 was set to lead the train southbound. They pulled out of Delta with the 40DC LHF and the MACe online but isolated. Things went well down the Auburndale Sub as well as the RTA corridor until Pompano. It was nearly 7 PM by the time they reached the Pompano Beach area and the crew would max out their hours around 8 PM. They decided to stop the train at the Pompano Beach Tri-Rail station, which they did, but somebody managed to pull a cut lever and split the train. After all of the nonsense was done, O722 went south to Miami probably arriving at Hialeah around 10 PM, well over 16 hours late.
Southern Style
CSX ES40DC 5264 leads a recrewed Q453 as O722 through West Palm Beach on a pretty nice evening in South Florida. Quite a rare catch for us South Florida railfans, and it was on a Sunday too.
Oh boy what a day this was for CSX. My friends and I had recieved word that Q453 had tied down in the Delta siding on the Auburndale Subdivision which is maybe 20-30 miles north of here. Q453s Winston crew went on the law so O722s Miami crew went to retrieve the train, Complications arose when the lead unit, SD70MACe rebuild 4536 would not load and could not lead the train of 100 or so cars. Originally, we thought that the slug set, YN2 6957 or other GP40-2s in Hialeah would make their way to retrieve the train as the yardmaster was driving the crew back to Hialeah. Unfortunately, that idea was scrapped and 5264 was set to lead the train southbound. They pulled out of Delta with the 40DC LHF and the MACe online but isolated. Things went well down the Auburndale Sub as well as the RTA corridor until Pompano. It was nearly 7 PM by the time they reached the Pompano Beach area and the crew would max out their hours around 8 PM. They decided to stop the train at the Pompano Beach Tri-Rail station, which they did, but somebody managed to pull a cut lever and split the train. After all of the nonsense was done, O722 went south to Miami probably arriving at Hialeah around 10 PM, well over 16 hours late.