CSX train Q581 eases through Tilford Yard led by an ex DRGW SD45 one summer morning in 2014. This scene is now home to an Amazon distribution center and a massive parking lot.

A CSX train heads east past Berea

A hodgepodge of two leasers and a GP38-2 finally gets a Nashville-Atlanta train from the 23rd to destination.

A former SOO Line SD40 leads Q190.

A trio of EMDs leads Q254 south through Ridgefield Park, NJ, the leader being a leased SD40 variant.

A pair of lease units bring the empty autorack train Q249 west with the OFOX 2797 and CEFX 3118 past the Brunswick, MD station.

Empty rack train L279 with a nice EMD pair, OFOX Leaser 3084 and rare YN2 CSX SD40-2 8130 are pulling this rack train through fonda at a good speed.

A beefy EMD duo drags the empty Derwood trash turn back east through downtown Gaithersburg.

"Leaser on the Local"

OFOX 2788 leads freight train Q366 east as it passes behind K-Mart in Brooklyn. Leasers are making a major comeback due to a power shortage on most railroads.

After a long day of unloading stone at the Shelly Materials plant in Kent, the K920 awaits a CSX crew to take it west to Willard and ultimately Carey, Ohio.

K057-22 with a rare solid standard cab EMD lashup, speeds west on the Philly Sub single main towards Baltimore.

Sign of the times: Power short CSX using leased EMD power just after Georgia midterm elections

OFOX SD40-2 Nº2789 proudly shows off it's former SD45 carbody while working local job M718 on CSXT's Birmingham Mineral Subdivision in Bessemer, Al during the early hours of August 20,2014. Built... (more)

Q581 basks in the morning sun while it waits to meet Q582 and Q212 before proceeding south to Tilford.