wow ......this is an old post .....but what the heck lets get it rolling again ........
I live in Western PA and we have NS mainline on one side of the river and CSX on the other side of the river (TRAIN HEAVEN).....Pittsburgh also has a very nice CSX yard near Kennywood.... I believe the biggest yard I ever saw for CSX is over near Russel/Wurtland KY ....For you folks in Huntington ..I believe Marshall U also as a loco paint scheme for CSX...My Nscale layout has the mix of the 70's late 80s were the B&0,C&O and new at the time CSX paint schemes are all working on the same mainline.
It's been hard, but I've learned to love CSX. There is a certain gritty, decaying, runner-up charm about CSX and its various scenes. And one has to love the heritage railroads they came from.
And they seem to have much better management now, focused on results and investing in the road. Hopefully the Brit investors won't screw them up and start having them eat their seed corn again.
So I've made my peace with CSX and railfan them now when I can. That's my post on this Official Spot for CSX.
CSX is my local carrier, yet since conrail, i haven't really liked any other railroads (class 1s), I like some shortlines but, Last year I went fly fishing in the Patapsco river In maryland and watched 3 coal trains go by with in 2 hours, I started to get my interest in csx operations, locomotive, and so on. they are my favorite operating class 1 right now. Norfolk southern isn't really appealing to model, I think a csx old main line layout would be very cool!
Tjsingle