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“E207-04 to Yard Master, Clifton. I’m coming to ya off the Mountain.” CSX trains contact the Yardmaster at Clifton Forge, Virginia well before they enter his yard limit in order to receive instructions. On this day, westward empty company hopper train E207-04 made that radio call and met the morning sun crossing the Cowpasture River near Nicelytown, Virginia. New spring leaves and the Eastern Redbud dot the landscape. Most westward empty coal trains traverse the former Chesapeake and Ohio Mountain Subdivision to avoid the gently descending parallel James River Subdivision used by every eastward loaded train.
The Mountain Subdivision of the former C&O from Charlottesville crosses the Blue Ridge, the Shenandoah Valley, and the highest elevation on the C&O at North Mountain to reach Clifton Forge. After passenger and merchandise traffic on the Mountain Sub declined and only westbound coal and grain empties remained, CSX sought to sell off the route. In 2004, the right of way and infrastructure was sold to the Commonwealth of Virginia and Buckingham Branch Railroad became the exclusive freight operator. In addition to the three-times-a-week Amtrak Cardinal from Washington DC to Chicago, CSX retains overhead trackage rights and runs several empty coal and grain trains each day.
Currently CSX returns 220 empty hoppers west from Newport News with a four locomotive consist. E207-04 will be broken into two 110 car trains, each with a two locomotive consist, at Peach Creek, West Virginia for loading. Loaded eastbound coal trains are combined near the mine or in Hinton, West Virginia and are operated in a 2 X 2 consist using Distributed Power over the eastern continental divide via the Alleghany, James River, and Peninsula Subdivisions to Newport News for export ocean shipment.
I caught this job arriving at Rainelle WV on April 21, 1988. CSX 4286 leads 6797, 2109, 6334, 6379 and 4132 on 100 empties. I probably should have aimed the camera at the sunbathing blondie across the road that has the hoggers attention but chose the colorful geep instead. Lol I wasn't always the sharpest tool in the shed even in those days:)!
April 23, 2018: CSX manifest-freight train Q542 (Waycross, GA-Cincinnati, OH) arrives at Wyvern Yard on the K&A Main of the CSX Etowah Subdivision at Cartersville, GA with a variety of power pulling the load that includes a KCS "De Mexico" gray ghost AC4400CW GE leader, along with a KCS "Belle" Es44AC GE, a CREX "Citirail" ES44AC GE, a CSX GP40-2 EMD and Road Slug, and a CSX GP38-2 EMD.
Watch video of the train here www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLetrIyMTKQ
CSX MP15 number 1138, in new boxcar paint, has shoved a boxcar into the USG warehouse in Jacksonville, Fl. This is one of two spurs into the company, and it is normally not used.
November 23, 2013: A pair of CSX EMD standard cab engines (SD50, SD40-2) lead a GE AC4400CW engine, as they pull a Southbound manifest/freight train CSX *Q539 (Cincinnati, OH - Waycross, GA) down the CSX W&A Subdivision at Emerson, GA.
*This train symbol has since been abolished.
A CSX local backs through a connecting track past the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on the south side of Jackson, TN. CSX still operates an isolated segment of the former NC&StL Nashville-Memphis main line that crosses the West Tennessee Railroad just north of Iselin Yard, and CSX has rights over the WTNN from Milan to Jackson to access this trackage.
CSX train Q376 is starting to pour it on after descending the ramp at West Pittsburg, PA. The milpost and searchlight signals are a reminder that this was once P&LE trackage.
SB CSX Q679-20 rumbles through Fairburn, GA with what common power, and that's rare now, a pair of standard cab Dash 8s leading the way.
10/20/2013.
Three CSX SD50's lead an Eastbound across the Youghiogheny River Bridge at Versailles, PA on 3/26/2016. Getting 3 standard cab engines on a train in 2016 was a real score!
April 10, 2018: CSX intermodal train Q028 (Atlanta, GA-Chicago, IL) powers Northbound on the CSX W&A Subdivision at Cartersville, GA with the "Spirit of West Springfield" ES44AH engine leading a pair of BNSF GE engines. The 3099 is also used to pull the CSX safety train.
Watch the train in action here www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yiadD6cAdU
Everyone has their own version of "Classic (insert railroad here)". I started railfanning in 2004-2005, so this is the CSX that I remember fondly. Ex Conrail units galore, YN1, 2, and 3 EMDs, and a mixed bag of power with everything from C40-8s to GP15Ts to SD50s to brand new ES44DCs. My favorites were the ex Conrail units, the SD40-2s and SD50s to be precise. Here we see CSXT #8823 and #8576, an SD40-2 and SD50, leading an empty stone train from Grand Rapids west on the Barr Sub at Pine. The train is heading for the large quarry in Thornton, IL, where it will be loaded with stone and then head back to Michigan.
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CSX Operation Lifesaver is WB somewhere on the Mississippi Gulf coast with CSX FP7 116, 117, NS 2800, ICG 9531, Amtrak F40 271 & 8 cars, Canon New F-1, Canon FD 50mm 1.8 Lens,
Kodachrome 64, Epson 4990 scan.
CSX 8235 & 8387 passed Salisbury Jn at c1600 on 21/09/99 with train Q134, the 1630 from Chicago to Baltimore, which was formed of 97 Trailers on Flat Cars & Double Stacks, with the Western Maryland viaduct in the background.
CSX appears to be doing a large amount of trackwork on the line between Portsmouth and the mainline back to Rocky Mount. These track maintenance cars are parked on the siding in Garysburg, NC.
CSX empty hopper train C820 rolls past the searchlights at Pineville, KY on CSX's Cumberland Valley Sub.
An unusual East Coast visitor is on the point of a westbound ethanol train as it passed Milepost 210 at Oroville. Northern California is no stranger to foreign power. With Norfolk Southern lease-backs and Canadian locomotives being utilized as run through power on import grain trains, it is not necessarily uncommon to find unique lashups. CSX seems to be an oddity though, as their locomotives are rarely seen on either UP or BNSF trains.
CSXT 3182 — UEE8PS 14 — Oroville, California
May 19th, 2024
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CSX 846 leads the Q-NWHLAC6 solo as it leads the train across the rain swollen Missouri River at Sibley, MO.
Shortly after meeting B661-28 at SE EMERSON, CSX empty tanker train B820-30 creeps across the Etowah River on an unseasonably warm New Year's Eve.
December 31, 2024
Cartersville, GA
April 9, 2018: CSX manifest-freight train Q580 (Charlotte, NC-Nashville, TN) powers Northbound over the CSX W&A Subdivision at Emerson, GA with a standard cab CN (Ex-Illinois Central) SD70 EMD, and a CN SD70M-2 EMD pulling the load.
Watch video of the train here www.youtube.com/watch?v=96if-XCnvVk
A GE AC6000CW leads the CSX limestone train through a tunnel of tress on the CSX Cartersville Subdivision @ Cartersville, GA. The train and it's load of limestone are enroute to GA Power's Plant Bowen in Stilesboro.
After waiting over 5 hours for it to reach me, the Nashville bound CSX freight train passes through downtown Cartersville, GA with a very colorful set of power that consisted of a pair of BNSF engines, with a D9-44CW in the old Santa Fe "War Bonnet" paint scheme leading, along with a pair of Union Pacific engines.