“Fire engine red, that thing was hot.” The Honoring our First Responders GE leads coal south down the KD Subdivision.

Special Coal Traffic. It's unusual for Columbia to get a specially designed CSX unit leading anything, but today the 911 unit led a Cross-bound coal train through town.

CSXT 911 and CSXT 1776 sit on display at the B&O Railroad Museum.

"CSX 911 @ Point-No-Point Bridge"

On the afternoon of March 30th, 2025, CSX ES44AH #911, the “Spirit of Our First Responders,” leads train M403(30) across the historic Point-No-Po... (more)

Hard to believe four years ago, 911/3194/1776 were in captive Florida-Georgia service, allowing for an untold number of photo ops over three months, so here we are with #911 at the head end of wha... (more)

Loco With A Point at Point-No-Point. On Sunday, March 30, 2025, CSX M403-30 made the trip from Selkirk, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with CSXT 911 (ES44AH, Spirit Of Our First Res... (more)

Meaningful Unit On A Dull Day. Famously 'even lighting' conditions did not keep photographers away from being trackside on Sunday, March 30, 2025, as CSX M403-30 traveled down the CSX River... (more)

Bound for Danville, WV from Russel, KY, CSX Train E005 breaks the silence of the small town of Hurricane on its trip East to the West Virginia Coal Fields to be loaded.

A coke train from the IHB at Gibson, Indiana, heading South across the Kankakee River in Momence, Illinois. These CSX trains run via trackage rights on the UP Villa Grove Sub. This coke train will... (more)

Never Forget. CSXT 911 "Spirit Of Our First Responders" (ES44AH) was leading CSX I010-14 over Johnston Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey on January 15, 2022 under a bright winter ... (more)

With the snow pouring down, CSXT 911 sits as she awaits a crew to take her to the mine in the Boone County Mountains.

One of three of the CSX "Pride in Service" locomotives captured at this elevated view in Newark, NY

CSXT 911 leads CSXT M561 turning south at Deshler to run on the CSX Toledo Sub. About 10 minutes later X555 would be going under the cantilever heading south.

The 795 and 796 ID's are daily in this stretch, so add a bulk train with a similar ID and good times ensue. Now this ethanol train took quite some time to get from Manchester down to Waycross the... (more)

L137 arrives in Gettysburg on Labor Day with the First Responders engine leading.