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question about an engine I saw on a CSX train
Posted by timthechef on Monday, August 18, 2003 9:49 PM
I live in Brunswick MD and CSX has a large switching yard here. Today I saw a train with three engines on it. Two big CSX engines and a little blue engine with white stripes on it and the letters CEFL on the cab. I think it was a GP-40. I'm not sure. They where hooked to a coal drag with the little engine on front. Anyone have any ideas?
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question about an engine I saw on a CSX train
Posted by timthechef on Monday, August 18, 2003 9:49 PM
I live in Brunswick MD and CSX has a large switching yard here. Today I saw a train with three engines on it. Two big CSX engines and a little blue engine with white stripes on it and the letters CEFL on the cab. I think it was a GP-40. I'm not sure. They where hooked to a coal drag with the little engine on front. Anyone have any ideas?
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Posted by edblysard on Monday, August 18, 2003 10:38 PM
White stripes, running at a angle, top to bottom, in the middle of the long hood, with a green stripe in the center of the wider white stripes?.
Whole locomotive really boxy, square cab, with a white roof?
Ed

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Posted by edblysard on Monday, August 18, 2003 10:38 PM
White stripes, running at a angle, top to bottom, in the middle of the long hood, with a green stripe in the center of the wider white stripes?.
Whole locomotive really boxy, square cab, with a white roof?
Ed

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:54 AM
It was probably a leased engine.Csx uses them through Defiance all the time.
stay safe
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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:54 AM
It was probably a leased engine.Csx uses them through Defiance all the time.
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:08 AM
Are you sure it eas CEFL, and not CEFX? It sounds like one of those CIT lease-fleet units, lettered CEFX.

Next time, if possible, numbers would help.

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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:08 AM
Are you sure it eas CEFL, and not CEFX? It sounds like one of those CIT lease-fleet units, lettered CEFX.

Next time, if possible, numbers would help.

Carl

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Posted by timthechef on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:36 AM
I think that your right, it was CEFX. The stripes where as you described on the long hood but I saw no green stripe. I am pretty possitive that the engine was a GP-38 or 40.
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Posted by timthechef on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:36 AM
I think that your right, it was CEFX. The stripes where as you described on the long hood but I saw no green stripe. I am pretty possitive that the engine was a GP-38 or 40.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:45 AM
could it have been one of CSX's old control cab road slugs. the easist way to tell is it will only have one cooling fan for the dynamic brake grids and no radiators. CSX had 80 built from old GP-30's and 35's back in the late 1980's
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:45 AM
could it have been one of CSX's old control cab road slugs. the easist way to tell is it will only have one cooling fan for the dynamic brake grids and no radiators. CSX had 80 built from old GP-30's and 35's back in the late 1980's
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Posted by edblysard on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:07 AM
Hi Tim,
E mail me, I think I may have a photo of your engine, and will send it to you.
Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by timthechef

I think that your right, it was CEFX. The stripes where as you described on the long hood but I saw no green stripe. I am pretty possitive that the engine was a GP-38 or 40.

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Posted by edblysard on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:07 AM
Hi Tim,
E mail me, I think I may have a photo of your engine, and will send it to you.
Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by timthechef

I think that your right, it was CEFX. The stripes where as you described on the long hood but I saw no green stripe. I am pretty possitive that the engine was a GP-38 or 40.

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