To anybody who lives near the CSX chicago line.

[Anonymous]

Can anybody give me some CSX train symbols that run on the chicago line?
(example Q-123)

[Junctionfan]

Which part of the Chicago line are you interested in?

[Anonymous]

Garret Indiana to Willard Ohio.

[Junctionfan]

Q100, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164, 165, 169.

L118, 134, 143, 147, 149, 161, 164, 169.

Q200, 209,216,222, 246, 247,249, 256, 267,276, 284,278,280, 284, 288, 290, 291, 293, 296, 297

L261, 296

Q338, 339, 340, 349, 351, 358, 359,368, 375, 380, 381, 384, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 393, 396, 397, 634, 635, 691

D719

K100, 165, 193, 236, 237, 301, 302, 310, 320, 324, 325, 326, 352, 377, 385, 392, 505, 510, 515, 518, 522, 525, 529, 533, 535, 536, 539, 540, 543, 556, 560, 561, 562, 599, 660, 661, 662, 803, 809, 860, 881, 882, 891, 892, 893, 895, 896, 897, 898, 924

N859, 860, 870, 886, 955, 956, 968

T900-906, 909, 910, 912-916, 922, 923, 925-928, 940-942, 970, 985, 989-995

U927, 928

V912, 975, 990

E448-454, 465, 485-498, 840-845, 847, 940

G803, 805, 843, 846, 848, 861, 936, 938, 939, 941, 970.

X505

Note that thease are only trains that go or come from the chicago line between Indiana and Willard from Fostoria. I don't know about what happens at Deshler.

Also to note; at one point in time a CSX roadrailer using ICEZ Ice Cold trailers went on the line. Q162 (Monday, Saturday) was a Chicago to Little Ferry NJ roadrailer and Q163 (Monday, Thursday) was it returning; I don't know what happened to it.

[Anonymous]

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!

[Junctionfan]

I found a large list on a Fostoria railfan page. I also have a Deshler version but can't find the damn thing-lost it but likely will find it when I'm looking for something else like with all things of mine.

[Anonymous]

Hey man thanks alot but can you give me info on what type of train they are?

[Junctionfan]

That could be difficult. I will need to do some research into that.

D train are locals; L trains are alternative schedules of the Q trains; T, U and V trains are the coal trains loaded and the E trains are the empties. Keep this thread available and I can pop in once in a while to give you some information on the trains including destination and commodities. I'll try to get all of them.

[Anonymous]

Thanks man! I'll keep the topic going.

[Anonymous]

Thought I'd pop in here.
Can you tell me and him if they are going east or west? Thanks!

[Junctionfan]

No problem. When I'm fininshed with finding the intermodals, I'll include the direction, origin and destination and description. I will do this for each train.

Warning though......the K trains will be a pain in the butt and will take time to find all of them out.

[Anonymous]

The coke trains CSX operates are symbloed K-180 to K187

[Junctionfan]

The bullsheet website will tell you most of what I know and stuff I don't know. I can tell you for so far that the Q100, 109, 110 are UPS trains. Q110 is usually about 30-40 cars long heading to Little Ferry NJ from Chicago Willow Springs and carries UPS, Martrac and ICEZ (Ice Cold Express) trailers mostly.

When I was at Fostoria, I didn't see any K trains and only 2 E trains. 1 heading south from west using CSX Bethgons and CSX power and 1 heading west from north using BNSF power and BNSF, GEAX and CEFX bethgons. I wish I had a scanner so I could have told you the numbers.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by comfterbullEd

Hey man thanks alot but can you give me info on what type of train they are?

Hope this is what you want...

KEY TO SYMBOLS:
Q100's - Intermodal
Q200's - Automotive
Q300's - Northern east-west corridors
Q400's - Eastern north-south corridors
Q500's - Western north-south corridors
Q600's - Cross corridors
L-train - Alternate schedule of Q-train
S-train - Second section
R-train - Temporary or rerouted train
X-train - Extra or third section

I also got this...

CSXT PREFIX LETTERS....
A - Local freights, switchers, etc.: AL,FL,GA,SC,TN
B - Local freights, switchers, pushers, etc.: CT,DC,MA,MD,NY,OH,PA,QC,WV
C - Local freights, switchers, etc.: IN,KY,MI,NJ,NY,OH,ON,PA,TN
D - Local freights, switchers, etc.: DC,DE,IN,MD,MI,OH,ON,PA,VA,WV
E - Empty coal hoppers
F - Local freights, switchers, etc.: GA,KY,NC,SC,TN,VA
G - Grain trains, including empties
H - Local freights, switchers, pushers, etc.: KY,OH,VA,WV
I - Rebillable jobs, including flagging
J - Local freights, switchers, etc.: IL,IN,KY,OH,TN
K - Unit trains of a single bulk commodity, ore, coke, steel, etc.
L - Alternate schedule of Q train
M - Local freights, switchers, etc.: AL,FL,GA,LA,MS,TN
N - Unit coal trains
O - Local freights, switchers, etc.: FL
P - Passenger trains
Q - Manifest trains, including intermodal, automotive, manifest
R - Rerouted Q trains, special manifest trains
S - Second section of Q trains
T - Unit coal trains
U - Unit coal trains
V - Unit coal trains
W - Work trains, non-unit coal trains, miscellaneous
X - Third section of Q trains, Special makeup, lite power, contract-haulage, miscellaneous trains
Y - Yard engines
Z - Foreign trains operating on CSXT