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Stealthy
CSX, apart from combining a ton of interesting railroads, eliminated a bunch of cool paint schemes too, and stumbled around for years trying to find an image. For a brief while, long enough for the first batch of C40-8s to be delivered (and maybe some Sd60s) the railroad settled on a mostly grey scheme railfans called the stealth scheme.
And thus on the morning of May 1, 1993 CSX 8040 leads sister 8217 and 5517, a B30-7 still in Chessie colors (talk about wrong leader) under US Route 1 in Halethorpe MD. Coming out of the sun, pre ditchlights, this guy was not particularly visible in the fog. The grainy film, from a slide that I had apparently dropped into a pile of gravel at some point, doesn't help.
Dad and I had taken a trip south to Baltimore to see the E units that MARC was using at the time, along with some rebuilt F units. We had a nice variety of color, but this guy was not part of the colorful part of our trip.
Stealthy
CSX, apart from combining a ton of interesting railroads, eliminated a bunch of cool paint schemes too, and stumbled around for years trying to find an image. For a brief while, long enough for the first batch of C40-8s to be delivered (and maybe some Sd60s) the railroad settled on a mostly grey scheme railfans called the stealth scheme.
And thus on the morning of May 1, 1993 CSX 8040 leads sister 8217 and 5517, a B30-7 still in Chessie colors (talk about wrong leader) under US Route 1 in Halethorpe MD. Coming out of the sun, pre ditchlights, this guy was not particularly visible in the fog. The grainy film, from a slide that I had apparently dropped into a pile of gravel at some point, doesn't help.
Dad and I had taken a trip south to Baltimore to see the E units that MARC was using at the time, along with some rebuilt F units. We had a nice variety of color, but this guy was not part of the colorful part of our trip.