We caught this unit on an empty coal train on the 9th. On the 26th it's racing north with a merchandiser across barren fields in the anemic sunlight of winter.
Easing down the steep grade which ends at the Clinch River and running on NS trackage rights an empty coal train has a former L&N unit in charge. That's my old Nissan Hardbody pickup under the br... (more)
QA Quiet Crossing: After serving Reckitt Benckiser in Belle Mead/Hillsborough, NJ, local train U042 heads back home westward towards Woodbourne, PA on the CSX Trenton Subdivision. It is see... (more)
Back where we once belonged. The addition of the ex-EMDX SD70M leasers was about the biggest change I thought I'd ever see, this was always the safe haven for non-GE consists in Central Florida. ... (more)
SD40-2 8008 & SD40-3 4068 do their best ALCO impersonations as they lead a monster Q241 (9600ft of loaded autoracks) south up the grade through Kennesaw, & thanks to a bad EOT, were limited to 30m... (more)
SD40-2 8008 & SD40-3 4068 lead a monster Q241 (9600ft of loaded autoracks) south past Wyvern yard, & thanks to a bad EOT, were limited to 30mph as they approached the beginning of the long uphill ... (more)
CSXT 8008 leads Q504-30 east past the old B&O signal and codeline. Gotta love the Indiana Sub!
CSX SD40-2 #8008 & SD40-3 #4068 finally level out at Elizabeth,GA with a 102 car 9600' loaded autorack train Q241-21 after battling the grades from Emerson to Marietta. This pair sounded good!
On a windy, cold March morning, a wink of sun splashes down on a former L&N “war wagon”add on CSXT 8008 as it approaches Brown's Crossing out of Selkirk Yard. The River Sub has seen a dramat... (more)
Northbound CSX train of empty hoppers headed back to Loyall, KY with a motive power consist that was becoming more rare event then.
Running westbound on NS this northbound CSX train of empty hoppers will regain home rails at Big Stone Gap, back when four units on a train was an everyday event.
Train 0836 passes S Bonnie Wye in the Bone Valley on its way to Green Bay
Rotary wet rock train
