The boys are back, and they're looking for trouble! As the Dropkick Murphys song goes, the two Tier 4 SD70ACe demonstrators loaned to CSX have escaped Queensgate Yard after weeks of downtime for repairs and tweaking, and are back on rotation between Cincinnati and Cumberland, MD. Leading two CSX GE's and 7,500 feet of freight, the train diverges onto the ex-B&O Ohio River Subdivision at Guyandotte for the trip to Parkersburg, New Martinsville, Clarksburg, Grafton, and eventually Cumberland.
Tier IV locomotives are the safest, cleanest, and most fuel efficient locomotives on the rails today. Unfortunately, most of them are ugly and are as quiet as an ACS-64.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.