ButchKnouse wrote: route_rock wrote: Couple of CITX locos in Galesburg the other day,plus saw one on the IC&E heading north last night towards Savanna. DM&E and IC&E are of course owned by the same company, and I see lots of IC&E locomotives up here in South Dakota. Do you see DM&E locos on the IC&E? The paint is the same, you have to read the lettering.
route_rock wrote: Couple of CITX locos in Galesburg the other day,plus saw one on the IC&E heading north last night towards Savanna.
Couple of CITX locos in Galesburg the other day,plus saw one on the IC&E heading north last night towards Savanna.
DM&E and IC&E are of course owned by the same company, and I see lots of IC&E locomotives up here in South Dakota.
Do you see DM&E locos on the IC&E? The paint is the same, you have to read the lettering.
I've often seen DM&E and IC&E locomotives in the same lash-up at Clearing.
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CITX if for CIT (commercial financial business). They also use CEFX.
no idea about GITX
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CIT lease locomotives generally carry their CEFX reporting marks. However, when CIT purchased the three EMD SD70M-2 demonstrators, they gave them CITX reporting marks and numbered 140-142. Why? I don't know. I've never seen or heard of GITX, only GATX. But I'm much less observant when it comes to rolling stock - the show's all up front as far as I'm concerned!
As a side note, I think the CITX SD70M-2's are the only good looking SD70M-2/ACe units out there (err, until KCS came out with the Southern Belles - probably my favorite paint scheme of all time now). The stripes on the front help that ugly nose. Plain solid colors just don't work for it...
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Ok. Got up out of my uncomfortable puter chair and went into the other room, rummaged around amongst my notes and yup it's there.
We have seen only one CITX # 141 here in these parts. So can confirm that yes, it does exist!
Carry on.
Mook
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CITX is the AAR reporting mark for PLM International. I couldn't find a "GITX", but thats not to say there isn't one.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
I live along the DM&E and the other day I saw 2 locomotives I hadn't seen before. One was an old BNSF and the other was an ex-UP. The logos had been painted over.
But they must have got them third hand because the letters CITX or GITX were under the cab windows.
Anybody know what these letters stand for?
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