CSX Railroad (CSX) 8444 - Rebuilt EMD SD40-2

Q632 head east with EMD standard cabs. These units are mostly retired, stored, sold or scrapped since this was taken.

All 5 locomotives from CSX X016. This train will soon have a meet with CSX K680 at CP 314.

Three diffrent EMD units built for three different railroads.

Crews try to separate the locos after the 7 unit head-on crash near Aurora, IL. Not all the locos could be identified from the photos by an unknown photographer.

Crews work to clear the wreckage from the head-on collision from the busy tracks near Aurora, IL. Seven locos were involved in the collision between a BN local and a SP freight. Unfortunately, one fatality occurred - the conductor on the SP freight train.

According to the Chicago Tribune files, this head-on collision occurred on Wednesday, January 20, 1993, between a BN 15 car local and a SP 92 car freight train. These photos appear to have been taken by a professional photographer, although unidentified.

CSXT 7608 trails on CSX Q626 as it crosses Pump Road.

CSX Q626 with an interesting set of locomotives approaches Pump Road.

Autorack train Q261 coming out of the mountains past an empty coal train. CSX 7344 is former CR 6161 built in February 1993. Update: 7344 has now been retired and sold to GECX.

New paint on this SD40-2 after many years of being in YN2 paint. Built as UP 3109 SD40 in September 1971.

Mixed freight train at rest on Track 2 with a GE leading but a pack of old EMD engines behind it. Five different engine models on one train and six total engines. The sun was only out momentarily.

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Q300-15 grinds eastbound through Woodbourne with CSX SD40-2 8444 working hard with CSX C40-8W 7658 trailing.

CSX SD40-2 8444 in YN2 trails a YN3 painted C40-8W on Q301-10 as they head westbound at Woodbourne.

A pair of ES40DCS and a YN2 painted SD40-2 lead Q410-08 east at Woodbourne.

CSX Q458

West Aiken at 1328.

Built September 1971 as UP 3109.

Jackson Station Road at 1317.

Lite power drifts west through East Aiken at 1317. The hodgepodge of power will meet Q216-24 at West Aiken.

Westbound CSX trainX787 with 7864 leading a lot of horsepower passes the Brick Yard siding at MP BAK 84.2, Philadelphia Subdivision.

CSX Transportation Q359 climbs west on the Sandpatch Grade

On a westbound leaving the yard.

At 15:40 the Q640 takes the controlled Belle Isle siding at CP29 .

At 800 A.M., Q391 has the low January sun behind him as he approaches Lincoln Avenue.

Trailing today.

With 1522 pulling and 8444 pushing, Y324 seems to have enough power.

Q161 passes Y324