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Just seen in Danville, VA

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Posted by spbed on Saturday, April 9, 2005 7:33 AM
OK. To bad it was not a CSX loco that would have been even better I guess [:D]

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Posted by railroad65 on Saturday, April 9, 2005 7:30 AM
No, the cars were lettered CSXT. A friend just let me know that CSX is doing a mantinance blitz on their main line in North Carolina he thinks this is why the train came thru here(detour or a work train for the porject)
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Posted by spbed on Saturday, April 9, 2005 7:19 AM
Maybe it was a NS train using a still not painted loco in C/rail colors? [:I][:p][:p]

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Just seen in Danville, VA
Posted by railroad65 on Saturday, April 9, 2005 7:13 AM
First time I have ever seen a CSX rail train come thru on the NS main. The loco was a ex Conrail C40-8W, sorry could not get number. It was southbound, fully loaded. The cars were old gon's with the ends cut out, and a new centre car was in the train. I was suprised that no buffer cars were used, on the NS and Sou they always use a buffer car (box or gon) at each end of a loaded rail train.

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