A little lean
Normally, you lean into a curve, but there's a spot on CSX's Monon Sub where a train tends to lean out, instead. There's a constant low spot in Dyer that the Maintenance department is always working on, but the soft subsoil tends to swallow all the ballast that the track dogs can throw at it. I caught Q643 doing the "lean" on its way south back in August of 2015. I've seen the lean here much worse than this, but you get the idea. A pair of old C40's, no longer on the roster, provide the horses this day. The 7532 is a little bit of a rarity for me - it has matching number boards. Seems that most of the CSX C40's I've seen usually had mismatching fonts. It was always interesting to see, just like seeing the outside lean.
A little lean
Normally, you lean into a curve, but there's a spot on CSX's Monon Sub where a train tends to lean out, instead. There's a constant low spot in Dyer that the Maintenance department is always working on, but the soft subsoil tends to swallow all the ballast that the track dogs can throw at it. I caught Q643 doing the "lean" on its way south back in August of 2015. I've seen the lean here much worse than this, but you get the idea. A pair of old C40's, no longer on the roster, provide the horses this day. The 7532 is a little bit of a rarity for me - it has matching number boards. Seems that most of the CSX C40's I've seen usually had mismatching fonts. It was always interesting to see, just like seeing the outside lean.