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A CN manifest runs through the CN and CSX diamond in Wellsboro Indiana with a SD75i leading a GECX tier 4 Demonstrator trailing.
Very fun train for me, I've never thought id be able to railfan CN let alone out of state, but hear i am in Indiana with one of my railfan friends :)
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 .
NV01 begins to cross over the eastern branch bridge in Norfolk with NS 3216 leading up front bound for Portlock
NS 273 fly's underneath the CSX A line with a rare KCS grey ghost leading down the line. We had to trim some branches down for a better angle of the train coming out from the bridge, i think it was worth it lol. I felt like every railfan was out for this thing and for good reason, never thought we'd get one on the Norfolk sub but here we are.
CSX #7001 begins to creep into Franklin Virginia next to the Birdsong Peanuts factory with a cut of Grainers.
Chesapeake and Albemarle, feels good to finally get i shot I've been meaning to get, glad to see 502 .
NS 273 begins to crawl out of Portlock yard in Chesapeake Virginia to Bridge 7 with a UP ACe leading the charge.
With railfans going around sharing their pictures on social media everyday now and it being a normal thing, it quite a normal occurrence seeing different railroads and motive power through are feeds. Of course this is something I myself part take in as well and see all these railroads others get to shoot on a regular basis. As a normal Virginia railfan who shoot his class 1 and handful of shortline in the area, I’ve always wanted to see other class 1s with their unique power sets. This dream was recognized on my summer trip to Michigan back in 2022. Me and my buddy Charlie went down to Indiana for a day to see what we could grab. Are first stop was Gary, Indiana, where a massive CN yard is located. With it being my second day out on the rails, I was blasted with Grand Truck engines, Illinois Central SD70s, and EJ&E SD38-2s. I couldn’t believe it, it was so cool to see in person. Here one of the shots I was able to grab, GTW 4927 sitting in the yard with IC 1002 & 1021.
Golden hour strikes and the sun begins to set early as it is winter months. Portlock yard release one more train before night fall being NS 273. 7654 is are leader today and with only a couple of containers and a bunch of well cars, 273 waste no time with blasting off from the Westend Portlock Signals in Chesapeake, Virginia.
My Lego model of a Southern Pacific MT-5. The real MT-5's were built between 1929 and 1930 in Southern Pacific's Sacramento shops. While they were originally built for passenger service, they soon became mixed traffic engines as more powerful engines; such as the GS class, took on the role of pulling passenger trains. Unfortunately, there are no surviving MT class locomotives. I specifically modelled #4369 as it appeared in 1946
CSX P001-01 is making its way to Philadelphia and to continue up north. But before that its gotta travel through the A-line and onto the RF&P. i planned to chase but was a bit hard when they were going 75mph.
NS V62 begins to leave Crewe Virginia and clears Oaks with two AC44C6M rebuilds leading the train. Had a little fun with this train. Chased him from Crewe then Oaks and went down the road with him. Caught him about four time, the crew and me got along with his train horn and my car horn lol.
NS V62
NS #4454
NS #4404
NS 745 seen here going through Spencer, North Carolina with a AC44C6M leading one of the WFRX Mac trailing. At the time of posting this NS had leased out 35 WFRX Mac to deal with a power shortage. They were on roster for about a year until they started getting gather up in 2024 of April to be sent back WFRX.
NS 271 pulls into east end portlock with the Erie heritage unit leading. The crew was out of time and was very tired and got picked up shortly after and a new crew pick up the Erie and put it on V07.
Also side note, what i can only assume are bad orders coal cars on the side tracks.
After holding up the Trenton Sub for over 2 hours, westbound mixed freight Q301 is finally back underway with a pair of GEs for power as the cruise along Lincoln Hwy in Langhorne, PA
a long 275 pulls up past bridge 5 with a nice lash up in south Norfolk. Wasn't expecting this train but it was a nice surprise, even got a AC60CW which are some of my favorite locos.
The #617, one of the CSX's AC6000CW has been selected to head this eastbound coal unit on the former B&O running through the eastern Ohio's countrysides. (6/12/16)
A metà anni Novanta, a seguito del successo tecnologico e commerciale riscontrato nell'introduzione dei motori asincroni trifase in corrente continua, concretizzatasi nella produzione delle AC4400CW e delle SD70MAC, i due principali protagonisti del mercato ferroviario Nordamericano General Electric ed EMD, rivolsero la loro competizione verso l'introduzione di una nuova classe di prime mover capaci di prestazioni ancora più spinte di quelli all'ora installati.
Per la prima volta infatti le grandi potenze disponibili a valle del gruppo motogeneratore, potevano essere trasmesse in maniera più controllata attraverso la fine regolazione concessa dall'impiego delle moderne tecnologie informatiche e dall'impiego per l'appunto dei motori elettrici AC.
EMD andò ad introdurre due serie di locomotive, derivate concettualmente dalle già collaudate SD70MAC e classificate dal produttore come SD80MAC ed SD90MAC capaci rispettivamente di 5000 e 6000Hp.
La risposta da parte della rivale General Electric furono le AC6000CW che, come suggerito dal nome, introducendo il nuovo gruppo propulsivo 7HDL, seppero eguagliare la potenza nominale delle SD90, raggiungendo i 6000 Hp (4500 kW) di potenza e diventando in questo modo le più potenti locomotive diesel al mondo, seconde nella storia solo alle "doppie" DDA40X "Centennial" Union Pacific.
Tale ricerca di una potenza tanto elevata ebbe però come deleteria conseguenza un netto decadimento dell'affidabilità complessiva delle locomotive di serie tanto da richiedere la messa a punto di una versione migliorata dell'intero impianto propulsivo.
Mentre tale sviluppo aveva luogo Union Pacific, uno dei due clienti di lancio della serie, richiese di equipaggiare addirittura le sue AC6000CW con il meno potente ma molto più affidabile motore delle coeve AC4400 rendendo però la macchina "convertibile" all'occorrenza al nuovo motore da 6000Hp.
Ciò non è poi mai avvenuto ed anzi, anche il secondo grande clinte, CSX Transportation è andata nel tempo a rimotorizzare le sue "fuoriserie" con un più ragionevole gruppo motore da 4600 Hp.
La traumatica esperienza vissuta da queste locomotive e dalle rivali SD90, anch'esse dimostratesi foriere delle medesime criticità, fecero di fatto fare un passo indietro alle case produttrici che, anche a seguito dell'emanazione della normativa EPA Tier2, ripensarono le loro strategie per gli anni Duemila andando ad introdurre le famiglie Gevo e SD70ACe/M2 sempre da 4400Hp.
Nella foto la CSX #617 corre verso Est al traino di un convoglio carico di carbone sulla direttrice settentrionale nello stato dell'Ohio presso Deshler. (12/6/16)