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A westbound CSX freight crosses the Potomac River Bridge on CSX’s Shenandoah Subdivision at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, on April 24, 1996. Leading the train is rebuilt EMD GP30, now road slug No. 2320, and EMD GP40-2 No. 6491. On the left is the CSX Cumberland Subdivision main line.
After departing the yard in Butler, B&P BTNC works it’s way south with a road slug leading south into the evening. BPRR 121 used to be IORY 5006, a GP50 that had BN paint up until being rebuilt.
B&P BTNC (Butler, PA - New Castle, PA Turn)
BPRR 121 Road Slug
BPRR 3121 GP40-3
BPRR 2003 GP38
Allen County, Ohio
A road slug leads a rail train CSX J034 through Cairo passing B&O CPL and dwarf signals on its way back to the Lima, Ohio yard.
Putnam County, Ohio March 30, 2009
Local freight train CSX D743-30 splits one of the last sets of CPL intermediate signals on the CSX Toledo Subdivision just south of Leipsic, Ohio.
These old B&O signals are now out of service with new replacements.
CSX A768 throttles up towards Blackshear after switching an industry just West of town. Behind the leading slug set is CSX 1705, a new SD40E3, which will be dropped in Patterson for brakes.
Seneca County, Ohio
Shot taken along the CSX Columbus Subdivision of an old C&O cantilever and railroad pole line in Fostoria, Ohio.
Of the few times I made a trip to Fostoria I never could get a shot of a train with the signal. At least there where four parked CSX geeps in the small yard with the front unit being a road slug.
Today, The old signal is replaced with a newer signal, and the pole line was taken down.
...Just a willingness to climb.
May 21, 1993: As seen from high above the Clinchfield's Copper Creek Viaduct, three 4-axle EMD's are at full throttle, shoving hard on the rear of a 90-car loaded coal train assaulting Southern Railway's "Gooseneck" grade at Speers Ferry, Virginia.
(Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slide.)
A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work the Cayce to Columbia local train Y102. CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 1964. Ir has since been sold to Larry's Truck & Electric or LTEX.
CSX local job D700 rolls west down Saugatuck Hill on a colorful fall day in west Michigan. The train originated at CSX's Wyoming Yard near Grand Rapids, and is en route to servicing industries near Benton Harbor and beyond. Road slug 2301 leads the way with GP40-2 6930 providing the power.
After a trip to CN's Southwark yard to interchange, a heavy St. Lawrence and Atlantic train mainly laden with propane and lumber heads east through mile 108 of the Sherbrooke subdivision behind half a dozen EMD products. On the right is the former approach signal to Ste-Rosalie. SLR and CN rail is now split with a short stretch of rule 105 track.
As the sun pops out for the first time today, CSX 4685, the "Spirit of Mulberry" and also in YN2 paint, leads train Q593 west through Tuscola.
The INRD Palestine Turn headed for Illinois as they make their way from Hiawatha Yard in Jasonville, IN through the fields of Southwestern Indiana.
Toledo-Grand Rapids freight Q335 glides across the calm Thornapple River on a late-Summer afternoon. A pair of classic YN2 CW40-8s lead a Mother/Slug duo. I had just started my Senior year of high school and was taking a photography class, and one of our first assignments was to incorporate "reflections". So naturally, I used it as an excuse to go railfanning.
An EX-Conrail GP40-2 sits with its Road Slug partner at Wyvern Yard in Cartersville, GA. From what I gather, there's only two of these CSX GP40-2 engines that still have the YN2 paint scheme. *Thanks to my friend Travis Newman for providing the lights. All I had to do was point and click!
A conductor for the Lancaster and Chester Railroad rides the lead engine out of the Circle S Feed Ranch's yard
The Palestine turn headed past the popular pond shot just East of the town of Sullivan. This crew would tie this train up in the siding here and take a NS coal train down to Oaktown.
After meeting K808 at Fox, D707 heads east back to its home terminal of Lansing. Leading the train today is an SD70MAC-CW44AC combo with a freshly painted slug set tucked behind them. Seen here crossing the Thornapple River.
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CSX's Midland Local, known as the J725, traverses over jointed rail north of Paris on the old Conrail Danville Secondary. It's taking 8 cars north towards Chrisman, dropping one and picking up 12 loads at Horace. It'll return back to Paris with 9 cars.
The engineer said that he expects Watco to take over the line in September, so get your shots while you can!
A loaded stone train that came off the Bullskin Branch to the left is now being shoved back a few miles to Ownensdale where the train will be picked up by the W&LE Railroad. It is great to see three red SWP engines working together at once.
May 2, 2020: An EMD GP40-2, along with a Road Slug, lead CSX Freight Train A703 (Cartersville, GA-Elizabeth, GA + Return) through an s curve at the Lakepoint Development in Emerson, GA on the CSX Western & Atlantic Subdivision.
102 eases south down the 'hill' from Coster behind road slug 1269 with DJ at the throttle and Mike riding shotgun.
CSX AC44CW 431 sits in Cayce, South Carolina at the former Seaboard Yard. It was built in 2000 and is one of the engines still painted in the old CSX YN2 paint scheme.
I was hoping this set would come out or better yet, the four axle EMD slug and mother set in the distance which are also getting rare on CSX. Up front is slug 2339, built in 1971 for Western Maryland as WM GP40-2 3976. She first went to CSX as their 6571. When they converted her to a slug, they renumbered her to CSXT 2339.
St. Lawrence & Atlantic's daily (except-Sunday) Southwark turn out of Richmond, QC is screaming up the hill into Durham-Sud with road slug 805 leading the charge. Behind the slug are SLR 3804 (GP40-2) and QGRY 6904 (SD40-3).
October 6, 2021: CSX manifest-freight train Q542 (Waycross, GA-Cincinnati, OH) passes over the Etowah River on the CSX W&A Subdivision at Cartersville, GA with a hefty dose of power, lead by an SD70MAC EMD in newly painted YN3 paint, along with an ES40DC GE, Road slug, GP40-2 EMD, and GP38-2 EMD.
Through the sunspots in the trackside trees, train BTNC navigates the winding trackage Route 8 en route to its destination of CSX’s New Castle Yard.
July 3, 2022
Power:
BPRR 121 - Road Slug
BPRR 3121 - GP40-3
BPRR 2003 - GP38-3
Back in '05 this slug set with stealth schemed GP30 slug 2249, hung around for a couple of months in the summer. The usual suspects have finished the interchange work with the Conemaugh and Black Lick along Washington St. in downtown Johnstown and are now rounding the tight turn at Railroad St.
In the late afternoon light, a Lake State Railway southbound rumbles down the middle of 10th Avenue in Alpena, Michigan on October 9, 2024.
LSRC 4303 leads an impressive 57 car train 326 south out of Alpena, with 25 loads of stone on the head end.
A transfer leaves TRRA's massive yard to somewhere north. Passing through "SH tower", this transfer has a slug set, 309/3009 for power. Their paint scheme is really neat and looks nice on this standard cab EMD.
Lake State Railway's train 327 rolls into Alpena after sunset behind newly-rebuilt slug set #303 and #4303. The train consists entirely of cement and fly ash hoppers for the Lafarge plant in town. The line from Tawas City to Alpena was still all 10 mph at the time, making for a slow and boring trip for this single-person crew. In recent years, LSRC has poured a ton of money into the former D&M in the form of ties, ballast and continuous welded rail. It is expected the entire line will be up to at least 25 mph (and planned for higher) quite soon.
This was pushing the limits of my 70D's low-light capabilities, with most of the usable light gone. I think it cleaned up decent enough.
As is often the case with the more photogenic locations along any railroad, some lines only get one or two trains in the hours of darkness.
Such is the case with this old timber trestle in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia at the eastern end of the former B&O Shenandoah Subdivision (present day CSX). It can be mind-numbingly boring waiting for a single train for 5 or 6 hours.
Here we see D791, the Brunswick-Winchester turn on the final leg of its journey back to Brunswick. The venerable GP40-2 followed by a Road Slug and another GP40-2.
In 12-plus years of night shooting I'd never shot this trestle before now; and that's not for a lack of interest. I'd always just taken it for granted and figured, "I'll get it someday..." and moved on to other options. Usually in pursuit of some random NS heritage engine or what not.
Finally Broke the Cycle. . .
INRD #302 leads a westbound three-car Palestine Turn near New Lebanon, Indiana. In another hour, the train will come back with three MACs and stacks for Senate Avenue.
CSX #2239 and #6470, a mother and slug set, rest for the night with the local caboose at CSX's Waverly Yard.
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Having followed the Coos Bay Hauler we stopped here, on a very quiet road, illegally parked and waited for the freight. As the train approached, this lot blasted down the road. I thought the hire car was a goner!
A Herzog Ballast Train powers around the bend at Emerson, GA heading Northbound on the CSX W&A Subdivision. The power set is a CSX EMD SD50 leading a CSX GP40-2 and Road Slug. Taken on 9/29/2013.
A mother and slug shove a string of cars up and over the hump at the Terminal Railroad of St. Louis' Madison Yard. Leased former IC&E GP40-2s from Helm Financial can be seen sitting in the background.
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We're a few minutes past sunset as CSXT B786 arrives back at Beauharnois with four tankcars from the Diageo distillery and CSXT 2247 & CSXT 6936 for power.
A one-second handheld exposure of CSXT 2247 as CSXT B786 is stopped in Beauharnois. The train had arrived with four tankcars from the Diageo distillery
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in April 2008
On April 25, 2008 Dad found CSX Road Slug 2353 (ex-CSX GP40 6639, nee-B&O 4064) at Etowah, TN.
Canon PowerShot A570IS
An EMD Road Slug and GP40-2 power the local CSX manifest/freight train Southbound through a tunnel of trees on the old CSX Western & Atlantic (W&A) Subdivision at Cartersville, GA.
See the video I shot of this train here:
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in April 2009
Dad shot CSX GP40-2 6484 (ex-CSX 6270, nee-C&O 4372) and Road Slug 2290 (ex-CSX GP35 4390, nee-B&O 3550) being refeuled at Etowah, TN on April 16, 2009.
Canon PowerShot A570IS
Lancaster and Chester Railroad GE C40-8S (S for slug) #9146 sits at Circle S Feed Mill in Bascomville, South Carolina in May 2017 as the crew waits for the feed mill to unload a few last cars of grain. The unit was built in 1988 as UP 9146. The L&C's parent owner, Gulf & Ohio Railways, rebuilt is as a road slug and permanently mated it to L&C #6002, a former Southern Pacific tunnel motor.