FURX on the loco

[traingang]

In the last issue of TRAINS Magazine, I learned that HLCX is a firm that leases locomotives. On the CSX tracks below my office, I also see engines with the reporting mark of FURX. [?]What can anyone tell me about this firm[?]

[CShaveRR]

I can tell you that the company of interest is First Union Rail, and they own a lot of locomotives and freight cars, including many with reporting marks of the operating railroads.

I'm sure that more information could be found at www.firstunionrail.com/ourfleet.html .

[JoeKoh]

Csx uses alot of leased power(rent a wrecks as some would call them)
furx hclx gatx and cefx too
stay safe
Joe

[Lear35A]

FURX's unique paint is the green and gray/silver:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=64179

It also seems like they have a ton of ex-BNSF Heritage I SD40-2s with the BNSF removed from the long hood:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=86592

I've seen a fair share with full BNSF markings, but they had FURX stenciled on the cab. I'm not sure why BNSF gives these to FURX and then leases them right back!!

[traingang]

Thank you gentlemen--
My 7-year old son is getting to the point where he can recognize the Class I and local paint schemes, but these tutti-frutti assortments of leased engines with the X's on the end of the reporting marks are really throwing him for a loop... and it is a bit of a challenge for me to explain the leasing concept to him at this point.
Our big find this weekend, a Rio Grande loco at the I&O Ford Park yard in Lima.

[Anonymous]

The only FURX loco's that I have ever seen out this way are old ex-BN engines with the green and black scheem:

[http://www.trainweb.org/corailfan/FURX/7931.jpg] &
[http://www.trainweb.org/corailfan/FURX/8092.jpg]

It would be cool to see one the Heritage I now and then.