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With a nearby cloud having moved just enough to illuminate the scene seconds prior, Q510 swings past the depot with a recently reactivated YN2 C40-9W in the lead.
CSX M37012 makes its way down the mountain rounding the tight curve at Mance, PA on the Keystone Sub. The views along Sandpatch are truly unmatched, and having a low digit Yn2 leader was icing on the cake, let alone a Yn2 duo.
CSX C40-8W's 7905 and 7764 lead local L391 north across Gum Lick Trestle on their way to Atkinson Yard in Madisonville.
With the week’s snow melting, CSX’s Shelby Yard was bustling with activity on March 1, 2015. On track 3, CW44’s 491 & 574 idle next to SCE&G loads on tracks 4 & 6. In just a few minutes, PEFX empties led by 247 will come up the main for a stop and swap. Shortly behind them a Shelby Shifter crew with the 376 was coming north with loads from Apex 2 in Elkhorn City. Better times for sure!
On a crisp fall morning along Big Clear Creek, ‘Rainelle Shifter’ R202-08 muscles 75 loads of black gold from Clearco down the 1.7% grade through Anjean, Wv. The steep and curvy Rupert Subdivision is comprised of mostly 100+ year old rail from the original NF&G days, giving the steerable trucks on this pair of AC’s a workout.
With a YN2-painted AC44 second out, CSX 3014 leads an ethanol train down the IHB main at Blue Island Junction during a frigid sunset.
If you squint real hard you’ll see hotshot time freight R696 working Kingsport Yard with a pair of C40-8’s wearing Stealth Paint…
Or if not you’ll see a battle worn CSXT 7518 on the point of Q696-25 making a few final moves before departing Kingsport Yard; days after the initial closure of Erwin Terminal.
October 25, 2015.
A freight just off the Ohio River bridge, visible in the distance, heads through Covington.
From Bryan Jones: The 7558 was originally delivered in the stealth gray paint scheme with blue running gear. It was one of the first units to be repainted into the YN2 paint scheme when it was introduced in the early 1990's. Apparently there were some issues with application of the lettering because this unit and 2-3 other early C40-8 repaints had the CSX lettering which essentially weathered or washed away after about 10 years or so.
Leading CSX train L063 (Old Pan Am DO-1) through the town of Saco, Maine is CSXT GP38-2 #2756 and MEC GP40-2LW #517. After seeing that the YN2 painted EMD had been stuck on the L063/64 over the last week, me and a few friends decided that on Monday we’d make our way up to see them headed to Portsmouth, NH through the Great Bay.
Upon arrival though we had found out that they ran to Portsmouth the previous night, and was going to have L063’s crew run to Rigby in Portland instead. Working with what available lighting we had that wasn’t completely backlit, we chased them up from Rockingham, shot them at Well’s, and ended the chase here at the Saco River. Although not the perfect chase I’m glad to have been able to see one of the last standard cab YN2’s leading a train, and to have walked away with at least a couple of presentable photos.
L348 notches up through Paris with a pair of recently reactivated C40-8W's sporting the YN2 scheme. It would appear that this Cincy-Patio turn local has been discontinued with the recent addition of a new road pair M543/544.
On a dreary winter morning, CSXT 330 East rattles the windows of the forgotten “Horton’s Summit Church” as they grind up the 1.99% grade to the crest at Sunbright, Va with 54 loaded “K&J’s” for the Clinchfield rebuilding effort in the Nolichucky Gorge south of Erwin.
The W094 was in good hands with veteran CV crew Matthew and Jimmy!
In the summer of 2014, C40-8s were still quite prevalent on the CSX system. On a late May evening, Q35330 grinds up the hill at Mance with a YN2 variety up front.
CSX local L391 makes its northbound trek over Pond River on Gum Lick Trestle as they head for Atkinson Yard in Madisonville. The local today features a C40-8W pair, YN2 7905 leading YN3 7777.
For quite a while now- more than two months per a local- a YN2 GP40 has been in charge of the Tullahoma-Decherd local, along with its slug mate. The train is here seen departing Tullahoma, TN for a southbound run to Tyson Foods, and back as light engines.
With early fall starting to show on Alleghany, the sound of drizzling rain gives way to howling dynamic brakes as a matched pair of YN2 CW44’s fight wet rail to hold back 110 loads from Hutchison Mine on the 1.14% downgrade through Moss Run.
The fight between mountain and machine was already lost before daybreak as they stalled on the 0.58% grade at Tuckahoe and waited 3 hours for C207 to push them across the mountain. Mountain Railroading at it’s finest!
If You look close enough You’ll see everyone’s favorite C&O conductor Michael Walton waving from the 461.
After not sleeping all night waiting on P001, my dumbass decided to go after A711 with a YN2 GP40-2 & GP39-2 for power. To the absolute amazement of myself, Travis & Larry, the conductor for today's edition was slower than a snail frozen in a block of ice 200ft below the surface of Antarctica. It no joke took him over 3 hours to build a 11 car train when all of the cars were located in a siding & just needed to be arranged in the right order. You could tell both the engineer & the dispatcher were getting rather crossed at him as he was holding up the subdivision the whole morning with several road trains waiting in Chattanooga for them to clear up. How someone was able to work so slow still baffles me.
Anyways, here we see them finally moving south going in the hole at Tilton to let one of those trains in Chattanooga get around them. Why did I stay up for this is beyond me since I was now going close to 27 hours without sleep by this point? Oh yeah, I'm a dumbass. 1-24-22
A YN2 CW44AC and an SD70AC overhaul crawl down a darkened Main Street in La Grange on a warm summer night.
CSX CW44AC 16 leads E910 through the control point of East Paintsville with 3-bays for Leatherwood. The 16 fell victim to rebuild shortly after this photo.
A re-edited photo from 2019.
Thunderstorms are preparing to roll in, as now abolished train Q163-22 (Syracuse, NY - Bedford Park, IL) heads west through Blue Island JCT with CSXT 8833 (Ex CR SD40-2) leading a CSX YN2 AC4400, as they round the curve at CP 154 after crossing the Cal Sag Channel on the IHB West Line. Taken: 6-23-2019
Here is another oldie that I do not remember taking...but am glad I did! More than a decade ago while home visiting from Alaska I guess I went to Palmer (no surprise right?!) and caught this eastbound auto rack train passing the depot at CP83 on the Boston Line presumably headed to East Brookfield. Today this would be train Q264 but a decade ago it may have had a different symbol, if anyone knows what it was back then I'd be grateful.
The best part of this catch though is the matching three unit set of units all in YN2 bright future paint let by a classic SD40-2. CSXT 8885 has a fascinating history having been built originally in May 1967 as straight SD40 for the Baltimore and Ohio numbered 7487. It later became Central Railroad of New Jersey 3066 and then passed to Conrail where it became 6290. It was retired around 1993 but then rebuilt as an SD40-2 becoming CR 6999 then this after the split. Retired again by CSXT around 2015 it was given a third life when rebuilt as an SD40-3 with a new square 'spongebob' as CSXT 4385 and continues to work today!
Palmer, Massachusetts
Monday September 19, 2011
On a beautiful summer afternoon, loaded grain train G609-27 splits the Clinchfield hardware at Rock Creek, dropping south into Erwin for service and a crew change.
July 31, 2015.
Part of the Homestead Steel Works, the Carrie Furnaces were built in 1884 and operated until 1982. The site is currently managed by the Rivers of Steel Heritage Corp. Tours of the facility are available on select dates throughout the year. riversofsteel.com/ CSX Q138 can be seen snaking its way through what was once a massive steel producing complex on both sides of the Monongahela River.
A pair of crusty YN2 GEs lead 90 empty grain cars across the Buckingham Branch RR. BB handles westbound CSX unit coal and grain unit trains between Richmond and Clifton Forge. CSX crews staff the trains. Too bad they didn't stick with this scheme.
Southbound Worthville turn with a YN2 SD50 leading follows Banklick Creek south of Bridge 40 in Independence, Ky.
CSX L452 splits the intermediates in downtown Holton with a YN2 CW44 and an overhauled SD70AC in the lead. These crossing signals were replaced recently, and the CPLs are likely not far behind.
CSX Q275 slows to a stop on the main at Memphis Junction to set off cars in the yard. Standard cab C40-8 7582 was on point this day.
The cleanest YN2 CW44 I've seen in a while takes southbound M511 through the plant at South Deshler as light slips away.
A pair of classic CSX GE's, a Dash 9 and a Dash 8, lead local L391 south through the S curve at Nortonville.
CSX has assigned C40-9W 9016 and C40-8W 7905 to the L391 recently. L391 is a 6x weekly turn job out of Casky Yard on the south side of Hopkinsville to Atkinson Yard in Madisonville. It consists of traffic for Madisonville area locals, the Henderson local, and the P&L interchange. Later the same night, L392 takes L391's cut plus the Casky local's cut to Nashville.
Westbound manifest traverses the Ohio River at Maysville, Kentucky on the CD Sub heading to Cincinnati.
CSX intermodal train Q015-19 heads west across the diamonds at Deshler behind a worn YN2 Dash 8-40C.
As a kid, my favorite CSX power were always the SD50s. It didn't matter if they were YN2, YN3 or Conrail blue, the big EMDs just looked mean and sounded powerful. On a particularly nice September evening in 2008, I was treated to a pair of YN2 SD50s slogging out of the Thornapple River valley with Toledo-Grand Rapids freight Q335 in tow.
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Literally! the power of the March 20th rocket was a clean pair of YN2 four axle's, along with the usual two Dash 8's. Also, credit to my voice activated flash holder :-D
With a lashup straight from the early 90’s, CSXT 8523 & 7735 bring empty phosphate train K811-15 through Poplar, Nc on a beautiful summer afternoon.
June 18, 2017.
Led by a pair of 2000’ built YN2 CW44’s, eastbound coal train C211-15 skirts along the banks of the James River near Snowden, Virginia on a dreary fall day.
Engineer Bragg and Conductor White have their M653-30 in the wind as they descend the Clinchfield loops, seen here splitting the US&S P-5 intermediates at ‘Big John’s’ ; Ashford, North Carolina.
Just another wider take on this scene.
The only reason I even frove to Worcester after work in the morning was in hopes of seeing the W024 with the SD40-2 leader I posted previously. I got hopeful upon arrival when I found it still in town at CP45, but with an inbound M426 parked next to it I wasn't sure which if either would move. So I waited it out to see what the morning had in store for the L048 crew, but alas when I saw them board the big manifest I knew I was out of luck.
Oh well, at least this wasn't a half bad consolation prize seen from the normal spot atop the Union Station parking garage. L048 first had to make a big 80 car set off to the Providence and Worcester before taking the balance of the Selkirk to Waterville manifest up to Barbers to hand off to their ex Pan Am colleagues for furtherance east. A nice YN2 painted AC400CW leads the train trailed by a relatively uncommon four year old EMD SD70AH-T4.
Seen standing above the lead unit is the former New Haven tower SSM334 dating from the 1911 grade separation project and track configuration when Union Station was built. To the left on Temple Street is St. John's Catholic Church, established in 1834, it is the oldest established Catholic religious institution in the city, and the oldest Catholic parish in New England outside of Boston. This 1845 brick church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Wednesday April 19, 2023
Southbound time freight Q696-25 winds its way out of the Nolichucky Gorge and past the historic Toe River Baptist Church at Huntdale with a veteran C40-8 doing the honors. 10-25-2015.
CP's 587 train heads west for a mainline crew change at the RIPs with a slightly less common YN2 leader on the point.
CSX Indiana Sub local L422 rolling by East End Brownstown with GP40-2 4419 leading, still wearing the classic YN2 paint scheme. The siding here was ripped out sometime in the last 5 years. There were a ton of people out for this run.
Popping out the south portal of the 331’ McClure Tunnel, a pair of YN2 CW44’s bring 100 coal mtys through Haysi (Berta) Junction enroute to the McClure River Preparation Plant for loading. The old Clinchfield US&S fixture here is the northbound home signal for the junction with the 5.6 mile Haysi Branch just through the tunnel.
September 2, 2021.