Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Pic of the Day (H-795-14)

On Tuesday evening, CSX train H-795-14 (Toledo/Walbridge Yard, OH - Fostoria, OH Mixing Center turn, auto racks) is ready to go and departing the north end of the C&O yard to return to Toledo, sporting a pair of locomotives, one each in CSX's "YN2" and "YN3" schemes, the former (GP38-2 # 2690, originally L&N/Family Lines 6039) in bad need of a dip in the YN3, and the latter (GP40-2 # 4436, ex-CR 3363) still looking pretty good in its newer paint. Despite CSX's many variations on its paint scheme over the years, it is still essentially the same scheme as it has been since the word "Transportation" was done away with shortly after the 1986 inception of a CSX paint scheme: A big, chunky, block "CSX" on the side, nose, and rear, and some variation of blue, grey, and yellow. Not exactly the stuff legendary paint jobs are made of, but when your name is just a bunch of letters anyway, I guess uninspiring just fits the bill.

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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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