CSX train Q263 (East Brookfield, MA - O'Bannon, KY) accelerates out of Buffalo's Frontier Yard after receiving a new crew. Leading the train is ex SCL EMD SD40-2 number 8052, which was built in 19... (more)

CSX train Q263 (East Brookfield, MA - O'Bannon, KY) waits for a new crew at the west end of Buffalo's Frontier yard. Leading the train is ex SCL EMD SD40-2 number 8052, which was built in 1979. Ov... (more)

With just a few moments of light left from the setting sun, CSX auto train Q263 rounds the curve in Lancaster, New York. SD40-2 8833 leads a pair of GE's as they follow Q157 into the Buffalo termi... (more)

CSX empty auto train Q263 passes through downtown Rochester behind a pair of GE's at a relatively new vantage point made possible by tree clearing for a power line project. Kodak tower and the res... (more)

CSX East Brookfield, MA to O Bannon, KY empty auto train Q263 pauses at CP 434 for a recrew at Harlem outside of Frontier Yard. The lead unit, CSX SD40-2 8052 was originally built for the SCL in 1... (more)

With a nose light SD40-2 in the lead, CSX empty autorack train Q263 gets on the move west out of Buffalo. The train completed a crew change at Harlem and then received permission from the dispatch... (more)

Westbound through the gorgeous countryside of Western Upstate New York on a pleasant Sunday afternoon.

On a sunny Christmas Eve day, CSX train Q263 (East Brookfield, MA - O'Bannon, KY) passes the MP 391 marker just west of Bergen, NY.

CSXT's daily afternoon Westbound auto rack from Selkirk passes a red foliage tree at Donahue Road crossing with engines CSX 3426 and CSX 5375.

On a clear September evening, CSX train Q263 is peeking out from the MP 372 (Broad Street) bridge in downtown Rochester on its way west through the city.

CSX train Q263 passes the newly repaved Savage road crossing at MP 384.5 om the CSX Rochester Sub on a beautiful September evening.

CSX train Q263 emerges from the bridge over Broad Street in downtown Rochester. The old NYC era milepost still stands, as well as a now abandoned code line pole from the same era.

In the final hour of light on August 31st, 2019, CSX train Q263 with a veteran SD40-2 leading passes through the Westside Drive crossing at MP 378.5 on the Rochester Sub.

On a clear and cool Wednesday evening, CSX train Q263 passes MP 377 on the CSX Rochester Sub. The train was doing only 25mph through here, as there is ongoing crossing work in the area.

Classic Conrail Throwback. Deep in the Berkshire Mountains, Q263 thunders through a rock cut as it fights Washington Hill with a rare Ex-Conrail SD40-2 in the lead.