Qustion about a CSX Engine?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I have seen this engine for years and was wondering why it has an odd shaped nose, What the Box on the Nose is for, and are there any others like it?

Here is the Engine http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2409124

Thanks Waltersrails

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That’s 6028, a GP40-2 (rebuilt, I believe - at least renumbered anyway). Posts here - http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,850963 - say that is for the Remote Control Equipment - notice the flashing lights on the sloped portions of the cab roof, and the collection of radio antennas on top. I gather there are others like it - do some searching based on that capability and you may find more or better photos and explanations, etc. For example, here’s a few links to photos of other locomotives that have that or similar gear or explanations:

2507 - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=305896

6360 - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=304173

6019 - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=304173

6022 - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=86148

6055 - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=39644

  • Paul North.
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Evidently these conversions were done quite early in the days of RCL operation–most of the RCLs that would go past me at work had no external modifications (save for signs, antennas, and strobe lights).

It would be interesting to see which units have those modifications–I’m sure that not all of the GP40-2s in that group have the warts on their nose.

As for the 6028 being renumbered, I’m wondering. In the CSX renumbering scheme, the GP40-2s off the Chessie System got the low end of the 6000 series–6028 would have been from the first batch of B&O GP40-2s. But the 6028 has had some modifications to the nose that suggest that it had once had a headlight there–something distinctively Family Lines.

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Wonder what is in that box? Changeover switch?

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UMLER lookup indicates it was formerly BO 6028.

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My other CSX engine I have a Qustion on is this engine

http://parysystem.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2400848

Was The Orange CSX Strictly for MOW Service or did they also serve other Purposes?

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When the engine was in pumpkin service it was CSXT 9712…The engines could be used in any service, however, the MofW people were the ones charged allocating their use on the property and needless to say they were very protective of keeping the engines in MofW service.

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BaltACD, it would have carried B&O 6028 as an interim number–GP40-2s on Chessie System were numbered from 4100 to somewhere in the 4400s before CSX came around. There were a few Chessie units that got CSX numbers under their original reporting marks, and this was obviously one of them. I’d have to do some serious digging, but the original number for this unit was either B&O 4128 or 4129.

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UMLER records available to me only carry one iteration of renumbering…

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Tell me about it–that’s the roughest thing I encounter when trying to find out some freight-car ancestries.

But I have a feeler out there for the original numbers of the 6028 and the 9712!

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FWIW, this blog says the 6028 started out as B&O 4128: http://railpic.blogspot.com/2010/11/csx-6028.html

As does this webpage, about 2/3 of the way down: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2118.htm

And as does this one, about 1/6 of the way down: http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/html/GP40-2.html

  • Paul North.
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My contact came through, too:

CSXT GP40-2 6028 is the former B&O Chessie 4128.

CSX MofW orange painted GP40 9712 is the former SBD (SCL) 6772, which was painted
in the original CSX paint scheme at one time. 6772 is the former SCL 1618.

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Thank you everyone for help and information.