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This morning I got a tip from a friend that a crew for a loaded sand train was on duty in Brewster, but I didn't know the power. Set up for my shot in Bolivar, I was a bit surprised to see CSX power round the corner, let alone five units all in the YN3 scheme. They made good time, allowing for several frigid shots this morning despite a small delay with trying to get ahold of the new OC St Albans dispatcher.
Consist was CSX 4710, 5485, 7370, 4570, 8094. 85 loads for Warrenton.
If YN2 is Bright Future and YN3 is Dark Future, then this one has to be Faded Future, an old ratty YN2 scheme on an old GE AC4400CW.
Detroit-Grand Rapids freight Q327 has an SD40-2 fresh out of the paint booth for a leader as the train descends the hill at Fox on a sunny evening in April.
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CSXT 3101 ES44AC (YN3B)
CSXT 52** ES40DC (YN3)
CSXT 62** GP40-2 (YN3)
GMTX 515 SW1200 (AK Steal)
GMTX 703 SW9 (AK Steal)
*DPU CSXT 8** ES44AC (YN3)
The last pit stop of my 4200 mile escapade was, of course, my favorite home away from home. No, not Covington, but across this river town lies another one. Cincinnati, Ohio. Home to CSX's Queensgate Yard and Skyline Chili.
More importantly, on this day, was J767's trailing engine into town. I was getting some fetti for Illinois tolls when I heard a GEVO call for permission through work limits and yarding instructions. The optimist in me said maybe something more photogenic was trailing. So I headed back from Winton Place and parked next to the B&O freight house near the riverfront to find precisely what I had wished for.
A couple hours of work and cloudy skies passed, and here is the C&O SD40 swinging through Covington's finest backdrop , although I prefer it from an elevated position when the light is a little better.
Q614 is lead by a former Seaboard/L&N SD40-2 as it passes under the historic walkway in Waxhaw, NC. The flags are on the bridge to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Rear helpers on train Q394-05 passing the derail switch on the Salisbury Industrial Track outside Meyersdale, PA.
As the sun begins to rise on a mild spring morning, an Atlanta bound CSX manifest / freight train, lead by a CSX Tier 4 GE ES44AH, passes over the Etowah River at Cartersville, GA on the CSX W&A Subdivision.
Ballast train K001 is about to cross the NS (NKP) diamonds at Fostoria behind an SD70MAC.
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R581 arrives at Lynch 3 with empties from Loyall.
Running around the train after spotting up at the loader.
With rebuilt CSX SD70MAC #4545 leading the way, T738-04 makes its way toward Atlanta a mere 26 hours after it left Etowah, Tennessee the day before.
The paint is so fresh, you can see reflections in the plow. Sister MAC #4536 was pushing on the rear; together this pair sounded amazing tackling the hill at Elizabeth.
A good amount of CSX locomotives' sits around the Cumberland turntable awaiting their turn for servicing.
Still working hard but finally starting to gain some speed again after crawling up the hill east of Thornapple, D706 roars into Alto behind SD40-2s #8849 and #8823.
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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. . .
CSX 9280 makes its way through Charlotte, NC on M491. This unit, formally CSX 7627 was sold back to GE and eventually onto Pan Am Railways in 2017. In June of 2022, CSX would acquire the Pan Am as a apart of the CSX system and 9280 would be the only example of one of the CSX Standard Cabs being renumbered and repainted back into CSX colors. To my knowledge this unit is currently out of service with major mechanical errors.
A triplet of SD40's (2 -2's, one -3) head North on the CC Subdivision towards Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati, OH to pick up a train. The local will then head south past this spot a few hours later. In the background is the Mother of God Roman Catholic Church, one of the many cool buildings that occupy Covington's skyline.
CSX L810 is passing Wimberly Hill Road on their way to Rockmart to work before moving on to Cartersville.
With the looming threat that we're all going to die within a month, I figured I'd better get one last shot of something. Of course it winds up being YN3 GEVO junk on CSX A727 at Union City, Georgia on March 28, 2020.
CSX 1850 brings up the rear of M653 as it ventures towards the Clinchfield. This unit is apart of the new CSX heritage fleet. These units are pretty controversial due to their half painted scheme with the YN3 being prevalent on the nose. Even though these units aren’t the greatest its still cool to see one out and about.
W080 sits dead on the main after the crew's hours of service expired. The Herzog ballast train spent most of the week dumping ballast in the greater Grand Rapids with a nice pair of SD70MACs for power. NWS's Grand Rapids Doppler Radar, aka the "Golf Ball", is seen in the distance.
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Today has been not too pleasing, cold, dark, and windy, and the weatherman says we might get our first accumulating snowfall tonight. So, I decided to pick out a photo from March of 2015 to brighten things up a litte bit. Q642 is headed north on CSX's Monon sub with a YN3 SD70MAC up front. There was a little problem with several of the paint jobs that got applied to these MAC's when CSX decided to paint them in the "Dark Future" scheme. The blue was not the classic old B&O blue, but came out more like the blue that Lionel used to paint the B&O F3's, if you can remember how hideous those things looked. Maybe, Lionel knew at the time that their choice of blue would actually be prototype accurate? So, it's still crummy outside, but now I feel a little bit better inside...could because I just had dinner.
E319 heads north for Chattanooga at SE Resaca on the W&A Sub with 223 cars behind the power, making it over 12,300 feet long & 928 total axles. Leading is the 7249, one the AC44 rebuilds that sports the newly-returned YN3 paint scheme. 10-11-21
A former Conrail SD60M and SD60I make easy work of a short train coming out of the "Lake O Dip" at Haddix Road. Running as G010, the crew would set their train of Lansing traffic out at Ensel yard before continuing east to put a grain train together in Webberville.
CSX I137 Switches out the yard getting its train ready to head east later that night. Todays train is powered by a YN2 CW44AC, a nice contrast to the modern YN3 variants.
A rare daylight SU-99 is seen heading west thru the small town of Callicoon with a trio of leased CSX and NS power.
NYSW SU-99
CSXT SD70MAC #4589 - "Spirit of Nashville"
NS SD60E #6959
CSXT SD70MAC #4769
A cold day for coal. Train U306 going east under the increasingly sketchy N&W/P&WV bridge in Connellsville. The biting winds made this a one photo and done location for me.
My favorite local around, F715 soars above the Contentnea Creek swampland on its way to Du Pont Sonora. As per usual on Mondays, the train is pretty hefty, with over 20 cars. A pair of GP38 variants, a dash 3 and an ex Conrail dash 2, have been the power for this train for a couple months now. Unfortunately due to school, I won't be able to see this train until November. However, the lighting at that time of year will be nothing short of pristine for this and virtually every location along the AA Line.
In 2001, I took my trusty Canon Elan 7 to Clinton, South Carolina to catch the CSX F40s leading a executive train along the old Columbia, Newberry & Laurens Railroad. CSXT 9992 was built in 1981 as Amtrak 309, It was still sporting a Bright Future or YN2 paint scheme, designations given by train enthusiasts, mind you. I caught the OCS in 2003 after it had been repainted YN3, but have not shot it since then other than in 2017 when the Clinchfield Railroad 800 was leading. The train has been repainted again since then into an attractive Baltimore & Ohio Railway scheme and this locomotive has been renumbered CSXT 3.
The photograph was made on analog film before my slide days. I bet I was using Kodak 400 because that seemed to be what I used back then. The negative has long since been lost. I used BeFunky to upscale the image and to say it is not perfect is an understatement.
I worked at Food Lion in Chester at the time and when I asked my boss for the day off and told him whar I was planning, he told me I did not have to make up a reason to be off. He gave me the day off and when I picked up the photographs from the Walmart next door, I made sure to show them to him to make sure he knew I was not, in fact, lying to him about why I wanted off, LOL.
A northbound manifest pushes through Cartersville with three standard cab locomotives on the head end.
Following the end of coal haulage by hired ELs for P.N. on the Pelton Coal, ELs were returned to CFCLA on two consecutive days on the YN3 steel train. On Nov 5th ELs 56, 61 & 53 had headed south on 4NY3.
Q326 is making its way east from Grand Rapids behind an SD40-2, SD50-3, and a 3GS21B. The Gensets were assigned to the Detroit area but always came to Grand Rapids for servicing.
Q326 is running through the siding at Fox as G010 sits on the main. The grain train power (an SD60 and a CW44AH) apparently developed some kind of problem and ended up heading back to the yard here. A former L&N SD40-2 leads a C40-8W on Q326.
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Working what I think was the Y103 job, #2631 rolls down the City Market Lead to retrieve an empty reefer from Michigan Natural Storage. At the time, #2631 was one of the last YN1 units left on CSX, and one of a select few that went right from YN1 to YN3 upon being repainted! It was a fixture in Michigan for years.
An intermodal train winds its way along the Youghiogheny River gorge as seen from Casparis Lookout Point.
A duo of well-lit CSX YN3 GP40-2s fly around the sweeping curve at Brookside with a massive L317. The freight is operating the former CL&W mainline from Clark Yard in the Cleveland steel yards to Parma Yard, in it's namesake city. From here, the line continues south to Lester and eventually Sterling, OH, where it interchanges with the B&O Mainline. Today's train will terminate at Parma where road trains will take it's traffic all across the CSX system.