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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.
R236 leading coal empties for loading at Yellow Creek on the Elkorn and Beaver Valley Sub at Jeff, Kentucky.
CSX R609 thunders through the control point of South Barbourville with a YN2 CW44AC leading Dominion Energy empties for Balkan.
On a beautiful summer afternoon, CSXT 100 South wastes no time heading to Bostic with M652-09, passing the Seaboard Air Line US&S spring switch indicator at S.E. Duke Siding. ———Thanks everyone for their help on this!
August 29, 2020: A pair of Canadian National Railway ET44AC GE engines, with a CSX AC4400CW GE YN2 engine in the middle, pull CSX manifest-freight train Q541 (Cincinnati, OH-Waycross, GA) down the CSX W&A Subdivision at Emerson, GA. The two CN engines are both sporting the *Aboriginal Relations Sticker* on the outside of each unit.
A few weekends ago, I took the early morning ride down to Petersburg in pursuit of CSX 2756, a pretty rare GP38 still adorned in the CSX YN2 paint scheme. Seen here shoving in the yard, I really liked this industrial setting for this hard working EMD product, still earning its keep 49 years later. Unfortunately on this day, they didn't leave the yard while I was there. Recently, this locomotive has been running on the evening local, and I would imagine I will be back in Petersburg soon to try to catch it before it ends up in Cumberland, Huntington or Waycross.
Here's something you can't shoot duplicate on CSX in 2017. Q243 has a pair of elephant style GE C40-8's in YN2 paint and a nice cut of stack cars on its headend. Aside from the wholesale retirement of the C40-8 fleet from the roster during the second half of 2016, the YN2 paintscheme itself is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Other changes include the removal of the pole line in the background, removal of the signal bridge off in the distance at FX, the closing of the 2 grade crossings also in the distance and closing of the road I had parked on to take this shot. Definitely lots of change in the 11 years since I took this shot. Louisville,KY 10-8-06
2025 has brought yet another return to service for CSX's C40-8W fleet. This time around, most of them seem to be concentrated on locals, and the Cincinnati area has no shortage of them. Here we see L411, the Worthville Turn, crossing Bridge 40 in Independence, Kentucky headed to Worthville with a pair of well-worn YN2 C40-8Ws (7876 and 7868) and a Geep for the Carrollton & Worthville.
CSX M405 has a recently reactivated YN2 C40-9W leading, descending the McKeesport bridge bound for Selkirk, NY.
Under a cold winter rain, a matched pair of YN2 CW44AC's bring 90 system empties from Eastman north by L&N’s Baxter Tower and into Loyall Yard. This U091 would meet the C633 just out of the frame waiting to line out and head to Creech to load their Middleton train. The main line the train is on is now removed.
12-1-2018.
To me, nothing says "CSX" more than a nose headlight SD40-2 with blanked-out class lights, fading yellow and blue paint, and a cab-mounted K5LA. #8070 and a C40-8W have a short Q326 in tow as they work east through the dip between 32nd and 36th Streets in Kentwood. The 8070 was a frequent visitor to west Michigan during this time period.
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The Big Sandy Sub had the time machine set to 15 years ago as we see CSX W094 roll under the dual Chesapeake & Ohio R-2 cantilevers at Dawkins near Paintsville. W094 consisted of Difco side-dump cars of rip-rap for Erwin and the flood project. A pair of YN2 CW44ACs lead this train, the third YN2 duo we saw on the trip, and the 3rd of 4 YN2 leaders. A great weekend in Coal Country.
Clinchfield’s US&S P-5 installations at S.E. Kermit work out their last days as also soon to be rebuilt CSXT 428 works south toward Kingsport Yard with M693-10. As of the date of this photo, there were new signal bases and conduit at both ends of the siding. “Progress” I guess…
With a trio of CSX dash 8 and 9 variants, L411 rolls north into Cincinnati at Longworth Hall. After another resurgence earlier this year, it appears the D8s are being pulled from service once again, with some reportedly already listed to be sold for scrap. While these motors seemingly sneak back out every couple of years, one has to wonder if this is truly it.
CSX mixed freight M520 rolls through Ocean Springs, MS on a late summer evening along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The northbound is led by a matching pair of YN2 AC44s, a sight that has become increasingly rare since the beginning of CSX’s CM44AC rebuild program. This New Orleans to Nashville mixed freight was one of several trains along the NO&M Subdivision on a busy night following Hurricane Francine.
I'm copying a move from George and re-posting some early shots from my first days on Flickr. This picture is from the very first posting of three images I made back in 2009, taken with my trusty and fuzzy point and shoot digital camera from the time. I've used the intervening years of photoshop experience to garner a better retouch of the image. Shot from the Burnet Avenue bridge in East Syracuse, it makes me think that a pair of YN2 "44 Dash 8s" in the 9000 series with a solid multilevel train would be a welcome sight these days!
CSXT / Pan Am train POED (Rigby to East Deerfield manifest) is crossing the Millers River from the town of Erving into Wendell at about MP 372.3 on Main 1 of the ex Pan Am Railways District 3 Freight Mainline, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. The train is crawling down the 'slow track' and will tie down at Farleys crossing a bit over a mile ahead due to congestion in East Deerfield Yard.
Leading the train is newly repainted CSXT 9280, a GE C40-8 originally blt. Aug. 1990 as CSXT 7627. It was sold to Pan Am in 2017 in a GE brokered deal and became MEC 7627 but remained in tattered patched YN2 paint until being reacquired by its former owner. This is the first and only Pan Am unit to be repainted so far, and the only one of the model once purged from the road's roster that wears the current CSXT image.
Wendell, Massachusetts
Thursday October 20, 2022
To follow up on yesterdays photos of a matched YN2 pair that you cant do any more... later the same morning we see CSX 4523 and 7575 leading a loaded coal train north for the Toledo Docks rolling through Deshler.
A rattletrap C40-8W still sporting its as-delivered YN2 paint leads a combined M207 and M209 down Main Street in La Grange on a cool early October night. I know that a ton of these things have been roaming CSX recently, so I'm a little late to the party, but it was refreshing to chase a locomotive I saw so often growing up, through my home territory.
EMD’s Seaboard variation of the SD50 Phase IIa1 is hard to beat. This engine lives on at my current employer as RBMN SD50-2 5018. CSXT 8507, 01-01-1993, Atlanta, GA, Kodachrome by Lon Coone, Scanned by Brian Bennett, Hunter Richardson Collection
After coming in on company hopper empties, a fabled YN2 pair idles away in Peach Creek yard. A few hours later they would go out as R290-01 and load a train at Hutchison.
The historic L&N coaling tower at Chaska looks on as a pair of YN2 CW44’s bring an empty TVAX train off Duff Mountain under a thick blanket of fog.
CSX YN2 units 7703 and 8781 lead Q299 west between Ravenna and Kent on the afternoon of 2/9/17. Wrong leader but maybe next time!
Seen from atop the 596’ Hewitt Tunnel, CSXT 404 leads extra north L200-23 through the 10° s-curve at N.E. Delano as the morning fog off the Russell Fork begins to lift. Their 5,184’ of freight is all Johnson City and Kingsport traffic bound for Russell; a short term local while the south end is returned to service after Hurricane Helene.
CSX 2756 (the last GP38 wearing YN2 paint in service) is seen leading Tuesday's L063 across Great Bay in Stratham, NH.
Last of the Mohicans
CSX SD70MAC 4566 is one of the last SD70MAC's on the CSX roster to retain its as delivered YN2 "Bright Future" paint scheme. Despite terrible weather and bright skies, I ventured out to get a photo of it for what very well may be the last time I see it in YN2 paint.
I took a gamble on trying to zoom pan it, and managed to get a lucky frame.
A handheld 1/15th zoom pan. Canon 5D2 Mk II | Canon EF 17-40 F/4L
The experienced CV crew of D. Browning and M. Logan pilot 90 empties from Eastman west into the evening sun at Marceum, Va along Norfolk Southern’s Appalachia District.
February 2, 2016.
Traversing Clinchfield’s 841’ long Boones Creek Viaduct, CSXT 515 grinds south toward Erwin with loaded Santee Cooper train U356-25. (Shelby, Ky - Pennyroyal, Sc). Based on a few sources, my educated guess is this train was loaded on the Pompey Spur at Castleton Commodities LLC’s “Slones Branch” loadout in Millard, Ky.
Interesting fact about the CSXT 515 is that it and 512 were the only two YN2 CW44’s delivered with a non standard number font on the cab.
July 26, 2015.