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The township of Matthews has started decorating for Christmas, as evident by the wreath hanging on the side of the former Seaboard station being passed by CSX CM44AH 7278 with Florida bound I037.
An eastbound CSX mixed freight, led by CM44AH 7500 and SD70MAC 4765, soars high above the Ohio & Erie Canal and the Cuyahoga River valley on a picture-perfect spring morning.
With permission to come south to work North Yard, Q541-16 is lead by CSX 7009, a rebuilt GE CM44AH, pulls under the new overpass of US Highway 41.
May 7, 2020: An SD40-2 EMD in YN3 paint, leads a rebuilt CM44AH GE engine in YN3b paint, as they bring empty grain train CSX V376 (Athens, GA-Martinsville, IL) Northbound on the CSX W&A Subdivision at Cartersville, GA.
New CM44AH heads north through Brewton Saturday night with train 520 in tow... This CM44 is only a few weeks if that from Delivery. At 10:30pm you've got Brewton all to yourself as a prop for a northbound as you can see here. Three Youngnou YN560IV flashes lit the scene. Two 50-60 feet apart on either side of the left building, and one head-on to my right even with me. On the car roof for elevation advantage.
CSXT intermodal train Q138 rounds the S-curve in Relay, MD with a GEvo on the head end and a CM44AH as mid train DPU.
This was my first doing this angle and I'll probably do it again.
TELE VIEW: CM44AH-7424 & ES44AH-919 are on track one of the Baltimore Terminal Sub, approaching the Ridgely Street grade crossing. They're on the point of E/B train M-300 (Rocky Mount, NC to Oak Island, NJ). 7424 was built in March of 2002 as CW44AH-554
CSX loaded grain train G099 heading for Winchester, Virginia, July 26, 2025, at Summit Point, West Virginia.
CSX loaded grain train G099 heading for Winchester, Virginia, July 26, 2025, at Summit Point, West Virginia.
October 13, 2021: CSX a pair of rebuilt CSX CM44AH (CM44AC on the engine) engines, in the freshly painted revised YN3 paint scheme, bring manifest-freight train CSX Q583 (Nashville, TN - Hamlet, NC) by the signals at North Junta Yard on the CSX W&A Subdivision in Cartersville, GA. The train would stop just a short distance down the tracks and work the yard before continuing its run South.
Shelby County, Ohio
Two nice clean units CSXT 7019 and 7016 fresh from GE less then two weeks ago, brings a general freight train eastbound through Sidney on the Big Four Bridge.
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk train M425 has dropped their train on Main 1 and have cut away and are heading light engine down into the west end of Track 3 to pick up their outbound Housatonic Railroad interchange.
This view looks east off the Second Street bridge at about MP QB149.9 on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Freshly rebuilt CM44AH 7577 sparkles in the low afternoon light while the last remaining building from the once massive former GE plastics plant looms in the background.
General Electric was once the dominant industry in town dating all the way back to 1903 when when it purchased the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co., which had been established in Pittsfield in 1890. In addition to its plastics division, GE manufactured transformers in town and operated an aerospace division. At its peak during the 1940s, the GE plant employed 13,000 people - in a city of just about 50,000!
The transformer division shut down by 1987 and took 2000 jobs with it, followed by the sale of aerospace to Lockheed Martin leaving only about 500 employees working for the plastics division. That last operation was closed and the remains sold off in 2005 and since that time many of the buildings on the 324 acre site have been removed, and for the past two decades GE has been working to clean and remediate the area from decades of PCB contamination.
In addition to being a major employer it was once a huge rail customer though today what little trackage remains on the property is rusty and unused and there is so little rail served industry left that CSXT has long since abolished their last local freight crew in town.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
CSX CM44AH 7100 hustles drag freight M500 north past the historic South Side Drug Company in downtown Springfield. CSXT 7100 was rebuilt from CSX AC44CW 39 and entered revenue service earlier this year. M500 originated at CSX's Radnor Yard in Nashville, Tennessee and is bound for the company's former Baltimore & Ohio Barr Yard in the Chicago suburb of Riverdale, Illinois.
South Side Drug Company is one of the oldest pharmacies in Robertson County, being established in 1919. The Louisville & Nashville's Springfield passenger depot stood roughly where the parking area is to the right of the train. The building was razed sometime in the 1970's.
Springfield, Tennessee
July 12, 2025
CSX is also freshening up some of their older GE's by creating CM44AH's out of the current class of AC4400CW's (CSX 200-375). 7205 was the former CSX 230 and was on the point of Q687 parked at Black Lane in Collinsville, IL on the CSX STL Line. A set of UP power was rolling down Main 1 with Q206 (Avon to Rose Lake/UP). Q206 would eventually become ACXNP and continue west on the UP while Q687 turns onto the A&S and terminates at Gateway Yard.
02-22-2020
Something old in the form of old warhorse ES40DC 5332 and something new CM44AH 7508 head up seasonal TOFC train I035-26 on 26November2022 south of Dahlgren Junction.
CSX loaded grain train G099 heading for Winchester, Virginia, July 26, 2025, at Summit Point, West Virginia.
CSX Q032-25 was heading for North Bergen, NJ with the 7200 on the rear in DPU mode ducking under a morning cloud deck.
Passing through Rosedale on the Philadelphia Subdivision, CM44AH 7200 is the first modernized CSX AC4400CW released from the Wabtec plant in Erie. The dusty GE was formerly CSX 202.
06:45, Saturday, December 31st, 2022. Wake up to the phone alarm. Check Messenger. Nothing. Shower. Check Messenger. Voice message at 07:09 from Gary L.: “…We have a nice treat on 101 this morning, it’s all EMD six-axle power. By me in West Palm Beach at seven ‘o eight AM…” Verify the power via VRF Cocoa live cam. It’s two SD40-2s. Get dressed. Pack up equipment. Bail out the back door and drive up to Dania Beach.
This really wasn’t the headsup I was expecting to receive on New Year’s Eve; I was anticipating a report on CSX M45330 and it’s CM44AH leader, but alas, a rarity on the Florida East Coast Railway takes priority once again. In another odd move by Bowden Yard, FEC 101-31 would have two of the railroads SD40-2’s act as power for one of last southbound freights to traverse the mainline in 2022. Word within inner circles state that the reason behind this decision was because of a lack of LNG sets in Bowden. #FEC715 leads the train, the unit being one of three former Union Pacific “Snoot Nose” SD40-2’s, a nickname derived from the locomotives’ extended noses. Photographed at the MP 347 curve, commonly referred to as the “Dania Curve” by local buffs, 101-31 had completed setting out one multi-platform IM car at Port Everglades a few minutes prior, now roaring south to Hialeah Yard with 101 cars and the two EMDs howling in run 8. Traffic for Hialeah Yard was compromised of empty rock and cement tubs, manifest, one autorack, and two IM cars.
There’s too many people I’d like to tag so I’ll keep it brief: thank you to everyone who made 2022 great to me!
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Dania Beach, FL
FEC Mainline
Date: 12/31/2022 | 08:20
ID: FEC 101-31
Type: Manifest
Direction: Southbound
Car Count: 101
1. FEC SD40-2 #715
2. FEC SD40-2 #702
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© Vicente Alonso 2022
After waiting for VIA 67 to make its station stop on the south track and then cross over to the north track once it departed, CN 327 is on the move with rebuild CSXT 7208 leading (ex-CSXT 227), CSXT 903 trailing and only 49 cars.
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk train M425 rounds the bend on Main 1 as they come out from beneath the East Street / Route 9 overpass right at MP 147 (note the milepost partially obscured at right) on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Freshly rebuilt CM44AH 7577 sparkles in the low afternoon light as they pull down so they can go pick up the outbound Housatonic Railroad interchange traffic off the west end of Track 3.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
CN 327 has a healthy 45 intermodal platforms up front as it heads south with a mixed bag of CSX and CN power (CSXT 472, CSXT 7216, CN 8922 & CN 8837).
CSX Q216-14 heads eastbound on track 1 by Riverdale Park MD with a brand new YN3 CM44AH Rebuild AC4400 number 7258 in the lead going to Philadelphia PA from Louisville Kentucky.
January 16, 2022
N013, having surprised me at Cartersville, has dropped to moderate 20-25 mph as the loaded coal drag brings 100 coal buckets out of the river valley and into down town Cartersville. The top of this hill is right here along the crossing of Gaston Westbrook Ave at the 43.0 milepost. The rebuilt AC44 leader was a nice treat as I haven't been able to catch one of these in while.
This train, if my notes are correct, is heading for the Seminole Electric plant near Bostwick, Florida. I may have the wrong but it is a Florida bound train.
After running around its train at Demler, N787 heads east with CM44AH rebuild #7200 now on the point.
Q648-01's headlight shines off of Q645-01's DPU, which is a new CM44AH. This is the second day consecutively numbered CW44AH's have been on Q645.
CSX Q217-17 flys though Riverdale Maryland with a fresh CSX CM44AH 7237 with 746 trailing going west on 2 all the way down to Louisville Kentucky. Taken: January 17, 2021
February 7, 2020: A freshly rebuilt CM44AH GE engine leads CSX Autorack Train Q211 (Louisville, KY-Greenwood, SC) through the countryside of Halls near Kingston, GA over the old Western & Atlantic Subdivision.
Another take on this scene because the light was so nice ans I'd never actually been to this spot before amazingly enough
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk train M425 has dropped their train on Main 1 and ducked light engine into the west end of Track 3 and to pick up their outbound Housatonic Railroad interchange.
They are pulling west as they run alongside the alley and parked cars at the foot of Oak Street near about MP QB149.6 on modern day CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Freshly rebuilt CM44AH 7577 sparkles in the low afternoon light while the last remaining building from the once massive former GE plastics plant looms in the background.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 23, 2025
Just recently moved from ATL to KC so I figured I wouldn't see an unit from one of the East Coast class 1s (CSX in particular) for a couple of weeks. 2 days later, a BNSF grainer is led by a CSX rebuild CM44AH.
CSX E040 slowly rolls into Decatur with a solo ES44AH leading and a CM44AH pushing the empty coal train on the rear.
TELE VIEW: While in pursuit of CSX's New York Central ES44AH-1853 on E/B I-032, I arrived at the Holly Tree Park in East Aikin to find W/B I-031 slowly crawling by. 1853 and train had been stopped just short of Jackson Station Road awaiting I-031's passage. ES44AH-3241 and fresh out of the showroom CM44AH-7590 are on the point with a healthy cut of Tropicana OJ cars on the head end.
GE CW44AC #22 sits parked behind the yard office in KP after running the yellow dog local. With this unit turning 30 years last October, it’s nearing the CM44AH rebuild program closer and closer
Q645-01 passes old ACL mile marker S247 as it proceeds into the siding. This is the second day in a row two of the new CM44AH's were in the consist. One leading and one as the DPU.
CSX M404 finishes up their work at Woodbourne and continues east with an ES44AH/CW44AH duo for power.
Due to the Howard St. tunnel project, coal trains have had to take a long detour to get to export in Baltimore. In this case, loaded coal train C733 from Newell, PA heads down the Trenton Line past the old station at Belle Meade led by CM44AHs 7244 and 7380.
A pair of CSXT CM44AH rebuilds power a Birmingham, AL - Barstow, CA (Yermo bound) military train as it tops the hill at Cuyler, TX
CN 327 slowly passes underneath a relatively new signal gantry with CSXT 7208 (ex-CSXT 227) and CSXT 903 for power.
A new and still fairly clean CM44AH leads southbound freight Q583-15 through Ringgold, GA on CSX's W&A Sub. 04/15/2020