EMD past and present on the Norfolk Southern...modeled by NS GP38-2 # 5002 working at the Fostoria Mixing Center, and NS SD70M # 2603, lead unit on train 15E on Monday afternoon (the trailing unit was BNSF ES44DC # 7611), parked here at Yokum Road waiting for CSX traffic to clear in town. It wasn't all that many years ago that one had to catch foreign power on NS for it be a widenose locomotive. Now...not so much. Still, one of the "neat" things about watching NS is the number of high noses that are still around, that you just don't find on any other major railroad in such numbers.
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March 5th, 2008:
Spring may be on the way soon, but it was certainly not here yet on this winter morning of storm recovery, full of snow, ice, and grey skies.
Through the scene next to old B&O depot in Fostoria blasts BNSF SD70MAC # 9618, looking rather ghostly with its "BN" logo no longer on the nose. She is leading CSXT train U-994-04 (Cicero, IL/BNSF - Colona, PA Powder River coal loads) eastbound on B&O main # 2, along with BNSF SD70MAC # 9404, also in the "executive" colors. Both units also have fairly newly applied "swoosh" patches on the sides of the cabs, not visible here.
The winter weather delayed many trains on this day, but didn't keep the Fostoria Rails from being just as busy as ever.
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EMD past and present on the Norfolk Southern...modeled by NS GP38-2 # 5002 working at the Fostoria Mixing Center, and NS SD70M # 2603, lead unit on train 15E on Monday afternoon (the trailing unit was BNSF ES44DC # 7611), parked here at Yokum Road waiting for CSX traffic to clear in town. It wasn't all that many years ago that one had to catch foreign power on NS for it be a widenose locomotive. Now...not so much. Still, one of the "neat" things about watching NS is the number of high noses that are still around, that you just don't find on any other major railroad in such numbers.
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