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Thought I'd post a few of today's pics...
Hum, a cut of covered hoppers at a feed mill. Something caught my eye about that center car...
Ah ha! I knew there was something special about that car...
NS blazing thru the crossing at Tobacco Road.
SD50 in a consist pulling a ballast train, leaves the yard in town.
A couple of shots of the ballast train by the old Confederate Powder Works. Pics were taken from the bridge walkway over the Augusta canal (1845).
Interesting flatbed load. Some poor old SD is missing a few parts.
Traction motors on the same car.
That confederate powder works structure would make quite a model. What's it used for these days?
Herm, poor SD... Like the building though!
Hawkeye251 said:
That confederate powder works structure would make quite a model. What's it used for these days?
An adjacent portion of the Powder Works is used by a textile company. It's a COOL building. Augusta was one of the Confederacy's main arsenals.
jbaakko said:
Kinda sad, huh?
A few after supper pics.
SD40-2. I believe this was the original CSX paint, right?
Dynamic Duo.
OK, ya'll educate me on #7377. Red "class lights" and "EOT lookin thingy", pusher?
Great pics Eric. Keep 'em coming.
Chris
grande man said:
SD40-2. I believe this was the original CSX paint, right?
If you look close, you'll see its STILL in Former Family Lines (correct?) paint, look at the grey areas where the Logo's used to be on the long hood, that the 1st Gen CSX paint...
grande man said:
The class lights indicate this is an Ex-Conrail unit...
The FRED just simply says one of three things, it was pushing, it was a light engine move, or they just stuck it there after leaving a train somewhere...
Thanks for the info,
Josh.
Well, this morning they're off to South Carolina. We caught them on their way thru town.
A few final pics from our trip. On the way to the airport this morning, we caught NS on the interchange delivering a cut to the CSX yard.
Light move back to home rails.
The Name's Really Matt...
Okay, about the SD40-2 in question: That is Family Lines paint underneath. The CSX paint on it now is what is known as CSX-Y. It was CSX's first attempt to add more visibility to their locomotives. It debuted in 1989.
For more info on CSX's paint schemes, visit
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/html/CSXSchemes.html
Cool more pics... I wish I had a working camera, I saw a "light" engine move friday, with 22 units!!!
jbaakko said:
Cool more pics... I wish I had a working camera, I saw a "light" engine move friday, with 22 units!!!
Wow!
I wonder what the story behind that was.
grande man said:
Wow!
I wonder what the story behind that was.
BNSF's odd like that, they make alot of moves of Units & Baretables between Barstow & Needles, and farther east.
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