All the GP-10s were eventually lodged in the 8300s and this was the first paint scheme. This one was repainted around 1987 and the paint job has a few years on it at this point.
NS 4001 has returned to Louisville after a trip to Progress Rail in Mayfield, KY. The unit is seen here at the Paducah & Louisville yard awaiting delivery to NS.
Another geep but no "bug eyes".
Just another "bug eyed" geep. I'm assuming people taped over that air intake because it fed the heater and was drafty.
Things would just show up on the roster and in a few weeks disappear, you just never knew what would appear or how long it would be on the roster because VMV would get them in in running condition... (more)
I think this is the only one of this model ever acquired by the railroad seen here in the dying glimmer of sun at the engine facility.
A couple of oddballs are bringing a transfer cut to CSX, including three SD-50s recently overhauled by VMV. This was a great location.
Former Cotton Belt GP40-2 7273 waits for its new owners to give it a new coat of paint as sets in the yard at Louisville. Paducah & Louisville would also reclass the unit as a GP38-2.
By July 1990 it was hard to find a Southern painted locomotive working anywhere on the NS. Most had been either repainted or retired. Built in January 1974 here Southern GP38-2 still wears its ... (more)
A southbound approaches Osborn Yard.
A Southern B23-7 along with a U23B and two GP30's pull an eastbound out of the Ohio River Valley as it heads towards Danville and then points south.
R.J. Cormans loaded aluminum train heads south towards Osborn yard.
Northbound at Central Avenue.
The RJC ingot train passes "Papa John's Cardinal Stadium" on it's way into Osborn Yard as it works its way south at Central Avenue.
One of the three Diversity in Motion painted CSX locomotives leads Q339 south by FX as it nears Osborn Yard.