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V-BLUMIN1-23B @ Staples, MN
The Blue Island, IL-Minot, ND rack train rounds the horn at Staples Yard with an old dirty bastard leading the cavalry on a gorgeous April morning in central MN. The former C&O 7455 is on its 52nd calender year and still in mainline service. This broad has had its present number for a longer amount of time than most current rostered, road assigned, engines have been around.
The accolades are deep and I shall spare the readily available deets, but I think more and more people (us) are starting to realize how incredibly amazing it is to find CSX SD40-2's on the road (leading even!) in 2018. For comparison, the F Units in the purge of the mid-late 70's were often younger than 30 years of service before retirement, and those were "legacy" engines at that point. Today, with PTC, Trip Optimizer, and a EHH-Foote regime, this has to be coming closer and closer to extinction.
Right? Or am I going to be writing this again in 2019? Who is betting against the 8406?
V-BLUMIN1-23B @ Staples, MN
The Blue Island, IL-Minot, ND rack train rounds the horn at Staples Yard with an old dirty bastard leading the cavalry on a gorgeous April morning in central MN. The former C&O 7455 is on its 52nd calender year and still in mainline service. This broad has had its present number for a longer amount of time than most current rostered, road assigned, engines have been around.
The accolades are deep and I shall spare the readily available deets, but I think more and more people (us) are starting to realize how incredibly amazing it is to find CSX SD40-2's on the road (leading even!) in 2018. For comparison, the F Units in the purge of the mid-late 70's were often younger than 30 years of service before retirement, and those were "legacy" engines at that point. Today, with PTC, Trip Optimizer, and a EHH-Foote regime, this has to be coming closer and closer to extinction.
Right? Or am I going to be writing this again in 2019? Who is betting against the 8406?