I saw this in Folkston last weekend. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1275215
It looks like the cab is “CSX blue”. Is this the orginal cab or is it a replacement cab from a CSX YN2?
Like the energizer bunny, those old EMD units keep going and going… .
I would think that it’s the original cab. The now-faded blue paint was probably applied when the locomotive was re-numbered.
OK, thanks.
That was a great catch, C&O lettering and all.
Yeah, I was quiet suprised.
To this day I am still surprised it is still in C&O paint. I was able to catch it earlier this year with a fellow SD40, CSX 4607 on a rock train in Augusta. One of the best consist this year for me.
Kevin
What is sad is how rare it can be to even see a plain SD40 anymore.
I’m surprised nobody else has mentioned this, this engine is in a picture in the latest issue of Trains.
LOL i was just going to say that. I thought it looked familiar for some reason!
It does get around. Shots from Janesville, WI December 2006.
Just paint them blue with a CONRAIL logo! [^]
That will hopefully never happen. That SD40 is probably better than any Confails on CSX roster. Glad Conrail is gone.
Kevin
No, no Conrail logo is needed on 4617! Hopefully it will be around for a long time and when the time comes to retire it, CSX sends it to a museum like it deserves. It amazes me 4617 is still running around because not only is it the last C&O engines, but CSX has been slowly retiring the straight SD40s the last few years, yet it has continued to dodge both the paint shop and being retired.
Actually, she might of been in an Accident of some sort, as she never ahd that blue cab, before.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=153658&nseq=10
I never knew any C&O painted locomotives where even around on the CSX!
They probably applied that blue under the cab because the old number faded so badly they needed a new one or they could’ve done it when they applied the yellow CSX patches on the ends. It doesn’t look like a replacement cab though as it is still C&O blue around the cab windows and on the nose. It could’ve also been in some kind of minor sideswipe collision that caused the old number to be unrecognizable, if that is the case, it is amszing it didn’t get a full repaint. It looks like that “new” number on the cab has been there for a while.
How so why do you not like conrail? It wasn’t a a failure Its purpose was to rebuild, and then be integrated into another system.
I don’t know if this is oskar’s reasoning, but a lot of people who were fans of the older railroads probably feel that Conrail eliminated their existence. They didn’t have much use for much of the trackage they received, and whole portions of known and historical railroads ceased to exist as CR trimmed away. The northeast railscene is a lot different now, a lot of lines are gone forever, and it is largely in part due to Conrail. But do I think they did what they had to so they could make it profitable? Sure, and it was a good railroad that like so many others became too successful to survive. Yes, I know it survives as a terminal rr, I don’t count that.
I do see your point, many lines were erased, yet some shortlines have popped up. Conrail was meant to revive the dying rail system in the northeast, yet alot of lines were lost, but railroads come and go. Well about the lines becoming profitable, is lets say a coal mine, has no more coal to mine in the town, and its railserved, if the coal mine is biggest industry in the town, the railroad would downsize the operation and serve local industries such as lumber dealers. Conrail did go through a money issue, and had to downsize, to keep the company alive, its not like they did it to ruin industries, but out of keeping the company alive, for the greater good.
really now why would you call conrail, confail, it served its purpose.
Tjsingle
amen to that… all the Gonrail stuff that came to csx as far as power has all been beat to hell and back and was falling apart junk… i thought csx did a poor job of maintaing its equipment… my oppionion changed when i got into the cab of my first gonrail units left in my charge… they where beat and worn out worse then anything csx had… always had issues with them too… never knew of you where going to get over the road or break down with Gonrail power…
csx engineer