CSX has started mating their F40PH's with ex-CR MT6 slugs! NO, but you certainly could make the case for fooling someone with this lashup on Q-349-06 (Willard, OH - Indianapolis/Avon Yard, IN freight), seen here heading south just past the east end of the B&O center siding south of Fostoria on Sunday morning. HLCX SD40-2 # 8176 in blue is leading, followed by CSXT F40PH # 9999 and MT6 slug # 1006. Not something you see everyday, even in Fostoria!
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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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CSX has started mating their F40PH's with ex-CR MT6 slugs! NO, but you certainly could make the case for fooling someone with this lashup on Q-349-06 (Willard, OH - Indianapolis/Avon Yard, IN freight), seen here heading south just past the east end of the B&O center siding south of Fostoria on Sunday morning. HLCX SD40-2 # 8176 in blue is leading, followed by CSXT F40PH # 9999 and MT6 slug # 1006. Not something you see everyday, even in Fostoria!
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