Cool photo. Here's a little history on this engine. CSX painted this C30-7 shell for Marshall and would bring it out to a track beside the football stadium of the school during home games. It hasn't been brought out for a while as from what I have heard, Marshall doesn't want it out during the games anymore as they think it is too much liability. When they stopped bringing it out for the games, it sat next to the parking lot of the Huntington Shops. Earlier this year, CSX touched it up again to bring it here. It was brought here to the dispatch center for the first ever National Train Day event in Huntington back in May. Since the NTD, the locomotive has sat here since. The track it is on are known as the Carolina tracks, where C&O business cars would be stored before and where the 765 would sometimes layover when it was not pulling the New River Trains. Another interesting thing to note is the passenger car coupled behind it. It's currently lettered for Erie but it is actually a former C&O business car. The car was on the track next to the 1837 but was requested to be moved by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society so that they could have a vacant Carolina track to put store six cars for the New River Train. The last time that car moved was when Bill Clinton's train came through in 99. Again, cool photo.
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Thank you and Thanks for the info Julius
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