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WM Heritage Unit is out Good point. I did not realize it looked like the Texas Flag lol! I could’ve sworn in a CSX concept art there was going to be black on the top but either way I like this one! Also the marks the completion of the three main Chessie component heritage units! Now where is that E...

West Olive Coal Trains Update: BNSF C-BTMCXC (Bound for West Olive) @ 22:50:00 CST on 03/06/24 heading east passing Ottumwa, Iowa cam with BNSF #9653 (Executive Mac) + BNSF #9272 with 128 coal loads and rear BNSF #6245 BNSF C-BTMCXC @ 00:07:17 CST ôn 03/07/24 heading east passing Mount Pleasant Iow...

Sorry for responding to this conversation very late but I’ve always wondered what happened at that curve after watching the Thornapple River Rail Series coal train chase video! Glad I was bored this morning and decided to research! And it’s nice to know there is a lot of history with this derailment...

As someone from Chicago, I’m not happy about this lol. But then again this should mean more variety on Metra in the future! However these carsets will supposedly operate on the Rock Island District Beverly Branch in the Blue Island, IL area. Ironically there was going to be a project on this same su...

Joliet is and always is a major hotspot. I’ve been there a good handful of times and it does not disappoint! BNSF is the king due to the amount of intermodal (and occasional autorack) movements on the Chilli. The UP is pretty mid but I can guarantee at least one or two Intermodals (since that’s the ...

Very nice! Glad to see LSRC creating new business like always! Hopefully this means more locomotives will be bought in case of a traffic increase!

L303-10 @ 14:00 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 185 axles (+1 error). CSX engines #5326 + #7339 & 43 cars (21 loads + 22 empties) @ 3,538 tons & 2,768 feet long. He has work in Lansing. These engines are from yesterday’s M326-09. Is 7339 a Dash 8 or CM44AC? I’m...

L303-10 @ 14:00 eastward reported by the Defect Detector mp CH104.3 Mulliken, Mi with 185 axles (+1 error). CSX engines #5326 + #7339 & 43 cars (21 loads + 22 empties) @ 3,538 tons & 2,768 feet long. He has work in Lansing. These engines are from yesterday’s M326-09. Is 7339 a Dash 8 or CM44AC? I’m...

Holy crap it’s been a while since I posted on this! Anyway, here’s a photo from September 30th, 2023 at Lake Cook Road (Deerfield), IL on the CPKC C&M Sub with 3 Unrebuilt CSX AC4400CWs on the point of CPKC potash train #647! The YN2 leader was a nice touch but the YN3C unit third was pretty cool as...

Oh it's not confined to the young. A couple classics. https://youtu.be/16kCRTFJr04?si=3psNhyPzWqlR8our https://youtu.be/pd6maEpbzDg?si=2vBP8a4d6D6nCgp0 Oh god I’ve seen both of those videos. Yeah it’s definitely not always Railfans that trespass these days. Everyone tries to find the easy way out y...

Another thing is that the younger generation always wants to stand close to or even on the tracks to get their "roster shots" and videos instead of standing at a safe distance from the tracks and using a zoom lens. Train crews don't like that. DSC_0723.JPG DSC_0286.JPG Yeah trespassing is a big dea...

Update: I might rename this in the near future to CPKC but I’m not to worried about it rn lol. But anyway, the Elgin Sub has recently had “some” traffic growth in the form of intermodal trains 180/181. These run between Bensenville yard in the Chicago and San Luis Potosi in Mexico (180) and the othe...

You may be asking yourself, what is this line? Well here’s the thing, it’s been abandoned. What’s left of it is Metra’s Southwest Service from Chicago to Manhattan, IL. Now for the history of this line: this is the former Wabash line (later N&W and NS) from Chicago which eventually connected to the ...

In my opinion both are okay. The reason is because of the locations. For one thing, Deshler is very busy and a great hotspot but doesn’t really have a lot of places to eat around the area. Fostoria is excellent but you have to run back and forth between NS and CSX and granted I’m glad it’s a horn zo...

CSX putting heritage paint on an EMD? That’s funny. Why? It’s probably bc of the fact that all the current HUs are Gevos and they’re the most modern locomotives on the roster “alongside” the rebuilds. But then again since everyone knows pretty much all of the HUs we have so far are Gevos, CSX could...

L303 (EB) with CSX 3424 and CSX 3417 has just cleared Harrison Road in East Lansing as of 16:37

As a high school aged railfan, I gotta say this is the best stuff I’ve read in my life. Pure facts being spoken in the first post. In the Chicago area (where I live), the Railfanning community is just a disaster that’s finished waiting to happen. There are many people who won’t shut up and stop bul...

As a high school aged railfan, I gotta say this is the best stuff I’ve read in my life. Pure facts being spoken in the first post. In the Chicago area (where I live), the Railfanning community is just a disaster that’s finished waiting to happen. There are many people who won’t shut up and stop bull...

When the supposed list of CSX Heritage Units we might see in the future was leaked, one of the possible units we could see was #1870 the “Katy”. Does anyone happen to know if this has something to do with the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad? I’m asking bc last time I checked CSX doesn’t operate on an...

A few years ago (probably 2013) I read a Trains Magazine article by Frank H Dewey about a C&O runaway train in Michigan that occurred in 1970 when a switch job hit a car and the occupants in said car stole the train and the author and other employees had to come up with as many ideas as they could t...