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With 100+ empties in tow, R614 rolls thru the since-removed turnouts at Baxter tower with an aging CW44AC pair as power.
The morning fog gives way to a pair of YN2 CW44’s racing north through Rockholds, Ky with E729-16; TVAX empties for loading at Creech on the Cumberland Valley.
When I took this photo I didn't know I was shooting one of the last trains to ever go to Spurlock. The entire facility has since been shut down, and I suspect there will be no more loads coming out of here. I hung around for several hours hoping a crew would come get this guy so I could get "the shot" of them pulling through the loadout, but was left disappointed. I think they came and got it the next morning.
One of CSX's last MAC's still sporting the classic YN2 paint scheme is seen leading a hopper train northbound through Waycross, a few hours after beginning its trip from Brunswick. Shortly after, this unit was placed into storage with most of its sister six-axle EMD's, but it has since been released and is roaming the rails again.
With a pair of YN2 AC4400's on the point, CSX empty coke train B158 arrives at East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where the empties will be interchanged with the Union Railroad in exchange for the next train of loaded cars out of Clairton. In the background, NS manifest freight 36A can be seen crossing the Port Perry Bridge to head east on the Pittsburgh Line.
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CSX Pittsburgh Subdivision
East Pittsburgh, PA
CSX B158-18 (Coke Empties; CN - Curtis, IN to URR - East Pittsburgh, PA)
CSX 431 AC44CW Blt. 2000
CSX 296 AC44CW Blt. 1997
CSX 6957, one of the last GP40-2's in YN2 livery, shoves a string of cars from the yard in Bainbridge to the industrial park.
The former Louisville & Nashville #8034 leads a Mother and Slug (6980-2380) west into Grand Rapids with what I believe was Q327 (might have been Q335, since this same set led the next Q334 east) on a very gloomy winter day. Since L&N had the most SD40-2s of any of the railroads that would come together to form CSX, their numbering scheme was adopted for that model. A couple of years after this shot was taken, #8034 would be rebuilt at Huntington into SD40-3 #4047.
A nice YN2 C40-8 leads southbound L511 under the B&O signal bridge at the north end of Cairo in the early light of a beautiful autumn day.
After a brief stop in Butlerville, L452 is seen battling the hill at Williams Lake on the Indiana Subdivsion. The YN2 leader was a nice touch inbetween the two historic B&O CPLs. While 506 still continues to wear it's original paint scheme, these signals have since been cut over.
K94923, an Erie, PA to Carey, OH empty stone train, heads west through the interlocking at CP128 with a single YN2 C40-8 doing all the work. The classic NYC signal bridge protecting the west end of the interlocking is on borrowed time, and it can finally be knocked it off my list.
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago today, December 11, 2011. A pair of CSX YN2 C40-8W "cookie thumpers" highball west with a train of autoracks. CSX was in the beginning phases of their $850 million National Gateway infrastructure clearance project which would eventually allow for double stack container trains. CSXT 7889 was eventually repainted into YN3b and wore an Atlantic Coast Line Emblem for a short time before being retired in the name of PSR.
With the disappearing of YN2 EMD's at a fast rate, this is becoming more and more awesome to see. CSX 8130, the same YN2 SD40 that trailed on the circus train a few months ago, is now back in Florida on K743. Here the train is seen in Baldwin just north of the diamond.
A768-20 hauls a cut of cars out of the Rayonier Paper Products plant in Jesup, GA for the return trip back to the yard. CSXT 2756 was one of the last remaining EMDs in YN2. I believe it has since been stored in Waycross. Only a few EMDs in YN2 are currently active on the entire CSX system, CSX 2756, 8247, and 8482.
The last EMDs on the system in YN2 are as follows 2756, 8427, 8247, and 8482.
4419 stored 241 days in Huntington with accident damage. Repainted in YN3 as of 12/05/2025
2756 in active service in Maine#
8427 stored in Waycross
8247 stored in Cumberland
8482 active in Baltimore
With it’s Chesapeake and Ohio lettering still showing through, Arnold Fork Trestle carries Hazard Shifter R236-24 and pusher R275-24 as they work together to hold back roughly 15,000 tons worth of Knott County black diamonds on the 1.86% grade off Beaver Gap.
CSX GP38-2 2756, a former PC/CR unit is at Fairburn, Georgia on November 27, 2014 before it was on the fan's radar for still being in YN2.
A January 2020 view
Q334's pair of SD40-2s are on their knees as they struggle up the grade east of the Thornapple River on a rainy spring morning. The wet rail proved too much for the heavy train, and they would stall a few cars east of where I was standing. The crew would subsequently double their train to Elmdale.
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Q177 flies around the West Leg of Duval Connection, beginning a long trip to south Florida on the S line. Power is provided by a pair of C40-8, the leader in YN2 paint.
A pair of CSX YN2 AC4400CW's lead train M526 through downtown Atlanta, GA alongside the NS triple track.
With L151 in the siding, the L135 is given priority over the line to Hagerstown, MD. A pair of CSX CW44AC's lead L135 which originates in Hanover, PA, with CSX 231 in YN2.
If it weren't for Q026's power backing into the ramp, the YN2 SD70MAC would've led. Unfortunately, CSX wanted this tumor to lead the hottest train out of Jacksonville, Q026, here seen at Ft. Mudge, south of Waycross.
Yes, pun intended. Railfans in Folkston were fed with some eye-candy when Amtrak P097 china'd the south Georgia atmosphere, leaving Q456 engulfed in it only moments later.
Oh to at least have back the days of YN2 SD70MACs! This image from 6 July 2001 shows CSX intermodal symbol Q-167 stepping through CP-286 in East Syracuse behind the 736 and a matching mate in late afternoon sunshine.
Two YN2 units take a sizable train of mixed merchandise over French's Hollow falls on their way into Selkirk.
L&N’s Vasper Tunnel chokes out the CSXT 354 and 500 as they claw their way north with a loaded W086 Herzog train for Corbin.
Under dense fog from the Levisa Fork, Shelby Shifter C875-02 passes the idled Viking Preparation Plant LLC loadout at McVicker with 100 empties for McClure.
Two aging CSX GEs in their as delivered yn2 livery lead the RBBB red unit circus train through China Grove on its final northbound run through the Carolinas on a gorgeous Spring like day.
After receiving a new crew and worrying about PTC issues, Q51408 pulls from a stop at Pleasant Valley road with a YN2 Dash 8 leading the way north.
In addition to their previous issues, their horn wasn't working properly which caused them to stop at every crossing between here and Manchester and flag it before proceeding.
Going back though the archives, I found this nice little surprise from December 18, 2013. I had gone out to catch Amtrak 42, the Salute Our Veterans unit, on the point of the westbound Southwest Chief. Sitting at the holding point on the far west side of Somonauk, IL, on BNSF's Mendota Sub was this manifest train led by CSX 342. Still wearing the "YN2" paint scheme that was the CSX standard for many years. Back in 2002, CSX introduced the much more simplified "YN3" paint scheme. So 10 years hence it was already getting rare to find many YN2 units, much less to find one outside of the usual CSX territory. I didn't know it at the time, but to date this was my last time seeing a CSX YN2 leader of any type out roaming the wilds of BNSF territory.
I137-07 heads south through Hilliard, Florida with a trio of YN2 AC44’s and a Geep for power. Consists like these are very rare nowadays.
CSX L422 splits the BC91 intermediates at New Elizabethtown with CSX 4419, one of 2 remaining YN2 painted GP40-2s, doing the honors as they roll west. This beat-up ex-CR Geep brought out dozens of people on this on May afternoon.
Chicago-Grand Rapids freight Q326 is on the last leg of its 175 mile journey as the train rolls into Jenison. A pair of SD40-2s, one in the then newish YN3 scheme and the other in the older YN2 scheme, provide the power on this bright and sunny spring day back in 2007. As of 2021, CSX #8020 is still in service, but I can't find any info on what became of CSX 8442.
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One of the few remaining unrebuilt CSX SD70MAC’s, CSXT 4792, led a detoured U-EGRXC down the UP Milwaukee sub with a YN2 AC44 yesterday. Of course, I shot it under the Bain searchlight. Kenosha, WI
CSX #531 leads BNSF’s U-CPFFCL loaded sand train bound for Fort Collins passes through the town of Fort Morgan on the BNSF Brush subdivision during a hazy afternoon due to wildfires from the western portion of the country.
Codeline poles and L&N searchlights and bracket the Rockhouse Subdivision as Hazard Shifter C840-24’s pair of YN2 CW44’s work south through Lothair, Ky with a loaded company hopper train from Blackhawk Mining’s Typo loadout. Once at Martin, the train would turn into a T442 for Charleston, Sc.
Unfortunately just a few years later, all but a few of the classic US&S installations on this stretch would secumb to flood damage and be replaced.
August 24, 2019.
CSX Q237 is led through south Waldo, Florida, by one of few surviving YN2 EMD's on the CSX roster. Soon this SD40 will face a similar fate as the trailing unit, 4524, which was still in YN2 livery little more than a month ago.
CSX M209 charges southward through Eagle Cut on a dreary afternoon with a pair of YN2 CW44s in the lead. After missing out on another YN2 duo on X209 earlier in the week, I was pleased to find out that a second 209 had emerged from the motor city with yet another pair.
CSXT 4782 leads loaded coal train CSX C118 eastbound along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision through Moss Run, Virginia.
High above the CV in the dead of stick szn, CSX 329 and another YN2 lead U091 "north" (geographically West) along the Cumberland River near Calvin, KY with empty coal buckets for Corbin.
A pair of YN2 CW44’s shuttle northbound utility empties through N.E. Hannum on a beautiful summers morning.
July 16, 2015.