Blaze06_YT
Westbound Harvest
After anticipating this for almost the whole day, a BNSF Grain train with two CSX locomotives head west after changing crews in the Cicero. The second unit (AC4400CW #28) was what I was mainly after due to it wearing the old YN2 paint scheme worn by locomotives in the mid 90s to early 2000s which is slowly going extinct due to the increase in AC44 rebuilds between CSX and Wabtec that is extending the lives of the AC44 fleet while also giving the units a new widecab and electronics along with the new “YN3C” website logo paint scheme. While the newly dubbed “CM44AC” rebuild is successful mechanically it has not been an immediate with crews supposedly as the new cab has had some increased rattling much like the first production EMD SD70ACEs (sometimes nicknamed thundercabs) in the 2000s. This is also a factor for a rumor I’ve heard that CSX crews (and crews operating these locomotives on foreign trackage for railroads such as UP or BNSF) prefer the original non rebuilt AC44 units over the newly rebuilt CM44AC. Oh and as for the lead Gevo while it was kind of meh seeing it lead over the classic AC44, the leader did have a crisp K5LA equipped!
Westbound Harvest
After anticipating this for almost the whole day, a BNSF Grain train with two CSX locomotives head west after changing crews in the Cicero. The second unit (AC4400CW #28) was what I was mainly after due to it wearing the old YN2 paint scheme worn by locomotives in the mid 90s to early 2000s which is slowly going extinct due to the increase in AC44 rebuilds between CSX and Wabtec that is extending the lives of the AC44 fleet while also giving the units a new widecab and electronics along with the new “YN3C” website logo paint scheme. While the newly dubbed “CM44AC” rebuild is successful mechanically it has not been an immediate with crews supposedly as the new cab has had some increased rattling much like the first production EMD SD70ACEs (sometimes nicknamed thundercabs) in the 2000s. This is also a factor for a rumor I’ve heard that CSX crews (and crews operating these locomotives on foreign trackage for railroads such as UP or BNSF) prefer the original non rebuilt AC44 units over the newly rebuilt CM44AC. Oh and as for the lead Gevo while it was kind of meh seeing it lead over the classic AC44, the leader did have a crisp K5LA equipped!