CSX 8457 hammers the Conrail diamond at Willow Creek Road in Portage, IN in August of 1996. 8457 was rebuilt from a SD40 and the CSX line is now double track.
"CSX A727 permission to depart Coastline outbound through the tunnel"
A veteran SD40-2 leads 5 other EMDs on J726 as they split the now removed blades at South Romeny just days before they were removed.
Monday's edition of the Avon-Lafayette turn heads back south past the South Raub defect detector and single semaphore. This is as far north as the blades go on the former Monon.
CSX southbound J726-10 splits the semaphores at Crawfordsville, Indiana. The blades are due to be replaced this winter. The video of this scene can be seen on railvideos.net at this link. http://... (more)
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug... J726 heads back to Indianapolis light-power, passing one of the soon-to-be replaced sets of semaphore signals north of Linden. This... (more)
SD40-2 CSXT 8457 leads S/B WC manifest freight up Byron Hill
A CSX train hauls downgrade west towards Terre Haute.
Southbound CSX freight passes the "shorty" semaphore in Crawfordsville, Ind.
A freshly repainted SD40-2 leads the daily Avon-Lafayette turn southbound on the former Monon. J726 normally uses the same two engines for about a month. Today CSXT 8456 is trailing and had been... (more)
