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M372 crosses the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, WVA, mistakenly recorded at 1/60th of a second but the motion blur seems to work here and besides, it's just another yawn-inspiring pair of General Electric locomotives in YN3. Kodacolor 100, Kodak Retina IIIC.
Having missed them at North End Acworth, it's Allatoona Pass and the Old Allatoona Road crossing before I get a shot of M202 as the 70 racks rumble north to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The heavy gray cloud cover gave this shot a nice "blue hour" feel even though it was well after 08:30.
A pair of AC's pound the diamond at Leipsic and roll under the CPL's that guard the south end of the plant. These will be replaced in the next couple weeks. Glad I made the trips down to capture these while I could.
CSXT 7568 leads CP 632 down to the rips for a crew change, passing the not-so-temporary CP replacement signals at WBCS Hoffman. As embarrassing as it is to admit, this is my first time shooting the summer angle off Warner Road. I feel satisfied now.
Q27914 slowly crawls down to CP 128 with the 7506 and 7580 for power. Both the Ashtabula Depot and a pair of YN2 Dash8 standard cabs are sights that may not be around much longer. The Depot now stands empty and useless to CSX after they moved their signal department out, and the fleet of YN2s are slowly getting dipped in YN3
January 21, 2018: A C40-8W leads CSX manifest train Q542 (Waycross, GA-Cincinnati, OH) Northbound over the Etowah River bridge on the CSX western & Atlantic Subdivision at Cartersville, GA.
Not realising that in a short 16 days both of these units would be placed and storage and quickly sold; I probably ought to have tried to shoot them more. CSX B20-8s #5966 (YN3) and #5948 (YN2) work as A700 a few days before Christmas. At this point in 2015, the searchlights still stood at K&A Wye.
A CSX ET44AH powers a local switch job, as it pushes a string of freight cars from the W&A main line around the wye track at Junta Yard in Cartersville, GA.
CSXT 8400 was built as Western Maryland 7449 in July 1969, the last SD40 purchased by the WM. The unit was chosen in 1989 to be one of many rebuilt into SD40-2s, which extended it's service life greatly. Here is 8400 as an SD40-2, pictured at Brunswick MD on February 3rd 1991, about two years after being rebuilt. The 8400 is still active, wearing YN3 paint. Richard Louderback photo, JL Sessa collection.
An ES44AC leads empty coal train N72 under the Intercounty Bridge in Brownsville, as a loaded coal barge travels the Monongahela River. The former MGA freight depot can be seen next to the train. The train is on the BIT (Brownsville Industrial Track) on the Norfolk Southern Loveridge secondary. Though the engines are CSX, it is an NS crew on board.
A CSX ET44AH leads eastbound mixed freight Q438 through Langhorne, PA on CSX's Trenton Sub on a crisp fall afternoon in Bucks County.
Q542 rolls north over the Tennessee River in Knoxville with an ex-Conrail C40-8 leading a leaser SD40-2 in an SD45 carbody.
A pair of SD40-2s are in full dynamics as they roll down the Thornapple grade with Grand Rapids-Toledo freight Q334. The boxcars on the head end were auto parts empties from Shape Logistics on the Michigan Shore in Ferrysburg.
CSX F781 power sits in Berkeley in South Norfolk with a crazy EMD consist. Seeing one of the 10 remaining SD50 on roster was honestly jaw dropping for me. Couldn't believe one had made it all the way out here and in Berkeley no less .
A pair of former B&O EMDs lead CSX local C770 back into Woodbourne Yard with 60+ cars in tow shortly before sunset on a beautiful spring day.
CSX J768 heads north through Rowletts with non-dynamic GP40-2 6394 leading another GP40-2 and a long train from Bowling Green.
CSX 3276 leads train I025 across the long elevated approach to the Ohio river bridge. Just across the river the train will pass through Henderson, KY on its way South.
Pulled from storage for one last hurrah, a pair of aging C40-8Ws chug up the hill near Fox with L302 from Detroit.
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The I&O’s Lima south local heads south out of Uniopolis with 1 of the 2 ex Australien SD50’s on IORY. 6-1-20
IORY 5016 SD50S (G&W)
IORY 3491 SD40-2 (G&W)
IORY 3494 SD40-2 (G&W)
CSXT 5315 ES40DC (YN3)
CSXT 5205 ES40DC (YN3)
October 13, 2021: CSX a pair of rebuilt CSX CM44AH (CM44AC on the engine) engines, in the freshly painted revised YN3 paint scheme, bring manifest-freight train CSX Q583 (Nashville, TN - Hamlet, NC) by the signals at North Junta Yard on the CSX W&A Subdivision in Cartersville, GA. The train would stop just a short distance down the tracks and work the yard before continuing its run South.
CSXT 8706 saunters up to the tunnel for a crew change as I am given another dose of H2O. The rain has been plentiful in presence and in sheer volume as of late, but at least I wasn't at work.
Merry Christmas to all! M653 is seen here rounding the s-curve at Wakenva, Virginia, in November of this year.
With the first ST70AH to lead a road train through the territory, Q541-09 sprints south through Rydal, Georgia on a warm, cloudy January afternoon.
The hot topic earlier this week was CSX's Office Car Special, which was making its way up the eastern seaboard from Jacksonville, FL to Selkirk, NY, then west to Chicago, eventually ending up back where they started, with CSX's top executives riding the train. In the last year, this train underwent quite a makeover, the YN3 blue and gold tossed in favor of a Baltimore & Ohio style scheme that the former Amtrak F40PHs and the 12 car train adorned, and I was more than fortunate to have a few minutes to catch the train heading up the Trenton Subdivision...
CSX P001 is seen here, rounding the curve eastbound into Penndel, PA as they duck under the bridge construction at Hulmeville Avenue, led by F40PH-2s 1, 2, and 3 with the long passenger train in tow.
A second rerouted coal drag makes its way through CP TL on the Trenton Sub behind a similar YN3/YN2/YN3/YN2 set that was on the first rerouted coal train the previous day. These trains are being rerouted via the Trenton Sub to Baltimore, MD due to flooding in the Cumberland area.
Q316 with 6 engines up front most of them being shuttled to Keyser or Cumberland works up hill at Amblersburg WV. These signals are now gone and i don't believe replacements were installed here but moved further down the line.
CSX 852, a single engine on train Q261 is putting its autoracks away on the west end of the Connellsville Yard in the middle of a blizzard. Traffic on the rails was noticeably down with some non-priority trains being held in Connellsville due to bad conditions to the southeast in Maryland.
The Blue Island, IL-Minot, ND rack train rounds the horn at Staples Yard with an old dirty bastard leading the cavalry on a gorgeous April morning in central MN. The former C&O 7455 is on its 52nd calender year and still in mainline service. This broad has had its present number for a longer amount of time than most current rostered, road assigned, engines have been around.
The accolades are deep and I shall spare the readily available deets, but I think more and more people (us) are starting to realize how incredibly amazing it is to find CSX SD40-2's on the road (leading even!) in 2018. For comparison, the F Units in the purge of the mid-late 70's were often younger than 30 years of service before retirement, and those were "legacy" engines at that point. Today, with PTC, Trip Optimizer, and a EHH-Foote regime, this has to be coming closer and closer to extinction.
Right? Or am I going to be writing this again in 2019? Who is betting against the 8406?
A pair former B&O GP40-2s leads a short 4 car C770 local back to Woodbourne Yard, seen here approaching Stony Hill Rd in Yardley, PA
October 21, 2018: A pair of leased PRLX (Progress Rail) AC6000CW engines (Former CSX in YN2 and YN3 paint), lead Norfolk Southern manifest train NS 174 (Macon, GA-Elkhart, IN) Northbound at Lindale, GA.
Watch video of the train here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5SxXt1Nutk
On New Year's Eve 2005, Q335 is rolling up the Coach Lead into Wyoming Yard behind SD40-2s #8803 and #8155, along with GP15-1 #1540. CSX #8803 is the former Conrail #6373, which was specially adorned with graphics commemorating 2,000,000 man hours at the Juniata Shops without an injury. This unit later received a yellow CSX nose before getting YN3 paint in 2010. It was later retired and sold to NRE.
Gliding to a stop to let a short extra intermodal train by, G119 sports a case of "right leader" under brilliant skies in Kingston, Georgia
CSX 7691 leads a YN2 and a YN3 SD40s WB as the pass the old P&LE station and the Monongahela Incline.
Roaring out of the tunnel and over the Takahashi River bridge on a cloudy, rainy day, a JRF EF64 approaches the community of Takakuracho with train #3082 bound for Okayama.
Most of the EF64's and EF65's in operation on JR Freight are painted in a revival scheme to what JNR operated in the 1960's (flic.kr/p/2oLYDBn). This particular paint scheme was applied sometime after JR Freight took over from JNR in the 1980's. More recently rebuilt EF64s from 2017 onwards have the new "YN3" scheme, while the original "mountain scheme" is actually pretty rare. A true blast from the past.
JR Hakubi Line
JRF EF64-1020 (Train 3082)
Takakuracho, Okayama Pref., Japan
Photo Description:
A Break in the evening Metra Rush sends a BNSF Tank Train from the CSX with MAC in the lead, under the bridge on its way west.
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Train Description:
Town: Naperville, IL
Leader: CSXT #4545 - SD70AC (MAC)
CSXT SD40-2 #8043 leads a westbound manifest (likely the D721 from Hagerstown Yard) past the CPLs at Hansrote WVA over the Cumberland Subdivision on October 25, 2003. CSXT's new scheme of all dark blue with a mustard yellow nose (YN3) had just been introduced as the new corporate scheme but you wouldn't know that here with this train. The CPLs hung on another few years but eventually were replaced with the new Safetrans Signals.
Fujichrome Velvia 100
Nikon N90S