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The official spot for CSX fans (celebrating over 200 posts of CSX-laden information!!!)
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:32 PM
Are ou a CSX fan? Talk with other CSX fans here!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:34 PM
I'm a CSX fan, are you?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:47 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxguy

I'm a CSX fan, are you?

[yeah]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:50 PM
So, CSX fan, what is your railroad's locale? Mine's in Georgia.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:54 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxguy

So, CSX fan, what is your railroad's locale? Mine's in Georgia.

Central Maryland, former B&O Old Main Line country
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:13 PM
What type of transporting do you do besides steel mill stuff?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:35 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxguy

What type of transporting do you do besides steel mill stuff?

Auto racks, TOFC/COFC, coal
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:36 PM
I do container cars and wood pulp things.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:40 PM
Are they still running the Tropicana unit train? If so, does it pass thru your area?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:46 PM
I haven't seen it for about a year, but it ran right past my place of work.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:13 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by csxguy

I do ... ... wood pulp things.

Do you have a Walthers Paper Mill complex as a destination for those pulpwood loads?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:17 PM
No, but i plan to eventually get one.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:27 PM
I toured one in northwest PA with the RR Industries SIG back in 1998 - awsome! If I had the extra space I'd put one on my pike. (The steel mill uses up about 70% of my available real estate.)

Have you ever visited that short line that was using the 4 old Chessie GP-9's?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:30 PM
No, i haven't. I really restric my railfanning to local places, since i can't drive yet. (I'm only 13) I do plan to get a paper mill, but i will scale it down quite a bit to make it fit on my line.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:48 PM
My layout is a freelance line. Somewhere in new england. Its called the Southcross & Western division. I have painted a lot of rolling stock for the freelance line (pictures in the link in my signature). But there is a lot of CSX action on my railroad as well. And dont forget the occasional amtrak.[:D] My main cargo is coal and the mine takes about 1/4 of the layout. There is also a pretty large coal dealership complex. I also run a lot of mixed frieghts between the two cities on my layout (my layout has lots of switching).
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Posted by cheese3 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:54 PM
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Central Maryland, former B&O Old Main Line country


[#ditto]

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:07 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen

Are they still running the Tropicana unit train?


Yeah, I think the symbol is K268 or something like that.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:08 PM
I caught these last weekend.



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Posted by Dough on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:26 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen

Have you ever visited that short line that was using the 4 old Chessie GP-9's?


Are you talking about the Great Walton/Hartwell/Athens “empire.” I live near the Athens line and see the two ex Chessie’s often. One of them still in original paint. Between the four locations they operate many more than four GP9s. If you include all of the Geeps and the SD7 they represent Chessie, C&O, CNW, RF&P, South Carolina Railroad, B&LE with many still in original paint! I finally managed to photograph them all I think.

BTW, in addition to the coastal Tropicana Fruit Express they also run some north through Atlanta to Ohio(?). The go north in blocks, but it is not a dedicated train like the one on the coast.

I have always wanted to tour a steal mill. Especially with so many going under. I got to go in Atlantic Steel in Atlanta before it was torn down, but it was probably nothing compared to those up north or even some in Alabama.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:35 PM
As soon as i figure out how to post pictures here (if you know please tell me) i will post some pictures of motive power in my area.
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Posted by simon1966 on Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:34 AM
I was in Huntington WV yesterday on business and the place is crawling with CSX motive power. On the East end of the town is a massive building with the CSX logo, seemsed like dozens of locos outside. Is this one of CSX's main locomotive maintenance locations?

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Posted by JPowell on Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:00 AM
I watch CSX all the time. Syracuse NY area - I live about 5 minutes from their DeWitt NY Yard.... They also serve a beer distributor in my area who's spur runs along the side of my street. So, I see them (CSX) about 2-3x's weekly! I'm also going to model the distributor and spur on my pike when I get that far.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:17 AM
I don't know Troy, but near me there is an Intermodal yard just south of Atlanta. Never been there, but it sounds like a great spot for railfannng.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:20 AM
I see at least two trains daily in my area. My workplace is less than half a mile from the CSX main line. Peachtree City isn't really an urban area, but there are at least five grade crossings within three miles of Falcon Field, a small airport serving Fayette County, GA.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:08 AM
Hey!!! Anyone out there???
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:51 AM
No, I'm a Norfolk Southern fan myself. But we share Conrail's assists (we both wanted it all). So we work together. The old NYC line running through my town of Dearborn is a shared assist line.
I do have a CSX GP-38 in the RED BLOCK paint scheme, A 4-8-4 C&O Hudson, a BL2 that will be done in C&O colors and a Pere Marquette train set with two EMD E-6's and an unknown quanity of freight cars.
By the way, do you know what "RED BLOCK" was?
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Posted by ozzy01 on Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:44 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966

I was in Huntington WV yesterday on business and the place is crawling with CSX motive power. On the East end of the town is a massive building with the CSX logo, seemsed like dozens of locos outside. Is this one of CSX's main locomotive maintenance locations?


Huntington is a major CSX locomotive facility.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:23 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by ozzy01

QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966

I was in Huntington WV yesterday on business and the place is crawling with CSX motive power. On the East end of the town is a massive building with the CSX logo, seemsed like dozens of locos outside. Is this one of CSX's main locomotive maintenance locations?


Huntington is a major CSX locomotive facility.

Absolutely! Huntington was the former C&O's 'flagship' loco facility - just as Cumberland (MD) was for the B&O. I'm glad to see it's still active.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:28 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by gsetter
...By the way, do you know what "RED BLOCK" was?

Operation RedBlock is an educational program of the AAR(?) to curb alcohol/drug abuse among railroad personnel.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:48 PM
That's interesting.
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