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With a pair of geeps, CSXT's C745 highballs westbound at Fairview, PA.
Local C745 heads west.
CSXT's C745 local heads west.
New River Gorge, Lansing, West Virginia, October 20, 2016, 12:25pm: EMD GP38-2S CSXT 4418 is shut down below the New River Gorge Visitor Center at Lansing, West Virginia. The 4418 was built in May, 1978 as Conrail CR 3321 GP40-2 and down-rated to 2,200 horsepower by CSX. It is coupled to a single work flat car.
C746-06 gets tearing eastbound through Woodbourne with lite power heading for Lansdale.
C746-22 continues to idle at CP Wood, awaiting their turn to roll through the interlocking as a northbound SEPTA local streaks by them.
C746-22 idles at CP Wood as they await the signal after an outbound SEPTA local, who has the clear on track two.
Q300-22 shoves west towards Woodbourne Yard as NS 61Z heads east overhead towards CP Lang.
CSX GP38-2S 4418 trails on Q300-22, and will soon be dropped off in Woodbourn Yard, and back into the local power pool once more.
While an inbound SEPTA makes their station stop at Woodbourne Station, Q300-22 takes headroom out of the east end of the yard as they prepare to drop off a cut of cars and a unit off in the yard.
Just made it in time before the MU!
CSX Q417 arrived CSAO Pavonia Yard
With a heavy throttling, C964-17 charges east out of Woodbourne Yard with CSX GP38-2Ss 4418 and 6159 pulling the six pack of Silverliners from Woodbourne Yard to certain death at Gilbraltar Rock in Skillman, NJ,
CSX GP38-2S 6159 leads C770-17 west towards Woodbourne Yard after finishing their work at Reckitt Coleman.
C770-30 working in the Yard with the 4442, 6295 and a handful of other units.
A seven unit beast of a Q418-06 grinds eastbound out of Woodbourne Yard with CSX SD70AC 4777 (in need of a nose job) leading a mixture of various EMD and GE locomotives.
Mixed batch of CSX Geeps pulling loaded ballast consist northbound from Connellsville
These workhorses were pulling a loaded consist of ballast hoppers.
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Trailing shot of loaded ballast consist through Broad Ford
Hollow Road. 1858 hours.
After bringing a cut of old Silverliners east to the scrapper at Gilbratar Rock in Skillman (Which I regrettably missed), C770-19 moves west?through Woodbourne with CSX GP40-2 6160 and CSX GP38-2S 4418 sandwiching two flatcars and two tank cars.
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On CSX Trenton Line. 1134 hours
On CSX Trenton Line. 1134 hours
4418 built May 1978 as CR 3321; 6428 built January 1978 as B&O 4290; 2333 built June 1970 as SCL GP40 1626.
Emppy rail train W014-29 heads east through Locust at 0946 with an impressive lash up.
A photo taken at the west end of Woodbourne Yard shows from left to right: W030 tied down, a block of retired Silverliner IIs and IIIs, and CSX GP38-2S 4418 and black HLCX SD40-2 6215 hooked up to a cut of cars.
Great lashup on Q410 today, GP38-2, GP40-2, and SD40-2 take the honors today.
4418 built May 1978 as Conrail 3321; 6341 built June 1981 as B&O 4447.
A sextet of engines lead a 137 car Q439 west through Loctst at 1456.
CSX Q410 has a GP38-2S leader at Fort Montgomery
Leading the C964-28 back from Morrisville long hood forward ...
CSX Q418 heads eastbound. CSX 4418 is ex-Conrail GP40-2 3321.
And another new one, CSX GP40-2 6226 trails fourth out on O031-11 as the train continues east on the Wood Connecting Track.
An extremely rare event, after dropping Ballast on the Stony Creek Branch between Norristown and Lansdale, PA, CSX Ballast Extra O031-11 moves east off the Wood Connecting Track with a four pack of Geeps, including CSX GP38-2S 4418 leading the way. The train came from Lansdale via Stony Creek Branch to the Morrisville Line..
Two engines dropped from the previous night's Q409-21 rest at the west end of Woodbourne Yard.
After heading to Philly for fuel with two lite units, C964-08 comes back east to the east end of the yard where they would back in with CSX GP38-2S 4418 and CSX GP40-2 4408 elephant style.
North Main Street. 1722 hours.
Sorry for the crappy photo ... Just wanted to document the rest of the consist on this train ... full "lash up" was CSX SD60I #8734, HLCX SD40-2 #7861, HLCX SD40-2 #6302, CSX GP38-2S #4418 ...