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Connecticut Southern CSO-4 heads south across the Farmington River at Windsor with a trio of GP38s for power.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra ladies and gentleman. One of my favorite venues.
I am not heading there tonight, but I am heading to the Gifted Gala 2017 held by the Lemont Center for the Arts. The Gala is being held at the Lithuanian World Center Art Museum (which is a hidden gem) in Lemont, Illinois and will benefit the arts. I am very honored to have four pieces hanging in the show.
Have a wonderful night!
Just another frame of Connecticut Southern Railroad's Hartford to Springfield turn job CSO-4 from last Friday. The train is led by a pair of B39-8Es in the form of orange repainted CSOR 3901 and CSOR 8530 still in its as delivered LMX gray paint and number dating from it Nov. 1987 build date by GE.
They are on Amtrak's Springfield Line main near MP 50 crossing the Connecticut River on the Warehouse Point Bridge crossing from the town of Windsor Locks into Enfield. The 1470 ft long double track bridge (though only one track is in service) dates from 1903 when the circa 1866 iron bridge was rebuilt by the New Haven Railroad, but even that structure was the second one on the site replacing a wooden Howe truss that first crossed here in 1843 by NH predecessor Hartford and Springfield Railroad.
Enfield, Connecticut
Friday March 11, 2022
Connecticut Southern train CSO-4 heads south on the Amtrak Springfield Line with B39-8 8530 leading the way. In the background is the Springfield skyline making for a nice scene.
Connecticut Southern train CSO-4 rolls south for Hartford seen here in Enfield, CT passing the site of a former mill building that burned early last year. In the lead is CSOR 3398, a former Union Pacific snoot nose SD40-2.
Connecticut Southern train CSO-4 heads north on the Amtrak Springfield Line approaching Meadow Rd in Windsor, CT.
CSO-4 heads south back to Hartford yard, crossing the Connecticut River at Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
I noticed this unusual alignment of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope while wandering around Mauna Kea recently. CSO is finishing its operations and ultimately will be deconstructed and removed. JCMT just changed ownership from the Joint Astronomy Centre (United Kingdom) to the University of Hawaii and the East Asian Observatory. Together with the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope and replacement of CFHT with a 10-meter telescope, it's an exciting time for Mauna Kea.
On a Mostly Sunny day, CSO-3 is returning to Hartford Yard after switching a customer in Suffield, and is seen passing through the Wilson section of Windsor, CT.
After holding briefly for the Vermonter, CSO-4 gets back underway at Windsor behind CSOR 2038 and NECR 3855.
Connecticut Southern Railroad train CSO-4 is northbound on Amtrak's Springfield Line main near MP 48 crossing the Connecticut River on the Warehouse Point Bridge crossing from the town of Windsor Locks into Enfield behind an SD40-2 and GP38. The 1470 ft long double track bridge (though only one track is in service) dates from 1903 when the circa 1866 iron bridge was rebuilt by the New Haven Railroad, but even that structure was the second one on the site replacing a wooden Howe truss that first crossed here in 1843 by NH predecessor Hartford and Springfield Railroad.
The Genesee and Wyoming owned Connecticut Southern is a small but busy shortline that dates from 1996 when then Rail America acquired the freight rights on Amtrak's line and the so called Hartford cluster from Conrail. As the length of this freight attests, business is robust on the present day CSO.
Interestingly this train was not at all what I had planned for my Friday. My goal was to chase New England Central train 608 back south to Palmer with the matched pair of blue and gold GP38s. They had been together on the Willmantic based job for two weeks and the last time I tried on Christmas Eve they were delayed for six hours and I was unable to wait. Today was sunny and clear and they were looking to turn back south nice and early, which is exactly what they did....except with one catch. They dropped one of the two units in Palmer and returned back south with only one, long hood forward no less! It was hardly worth chasing that so I went to see what else I could find in the area besides CSXT.
This was a reasonable consolation prize, and there was more to follow making for a decent day despite missing out on my main goal yet again.
Enfield, Connecticut
Friday January 8, 2021
The entire staff of the Connecticut Southern Railroad in attendance poses for a shot at their new offices and shops in Hartford, CT
The entire staff of the Connecticut Southern Railroad in attendance poses for a shot at their new offices and shops in Hartford, CT
Hillbourne Road, working the 12.10 Route-4
Poole to Wimborne Square via Corfe Mullen service
on Sunday 11 October 2020
is Go Ahead South Coast / More Bus
Alexander Dennis Enviro 400MMC
1676 HF69 CSO.
After having interchanged with CSX at West Springfield, OHCR 8530 leads CSO-4 south toward Hartford passing through Windsor, CT on Amtrak's Springfield line.
CSO-4 wasn't far behind 4404, with today's northbound turn led by CSOR 3901, whose G&W orange paint was still relatively fresh at the time, and 2011.
The 3901 is ex-CSOR 8511, which I had last seen leading ten years prior, when it still wore faded LMX red and grey.
CSX's Tony Giobbie, Manager - Regional and Short Line Development, shows a photo of himself in Venice, Italy wearing a CSO hat.