Got another CSX fan here. I’m modelling csx in an as yet determined location. I’m prepping the room for the layout, including a good thourough clean and new paint on the walls. I’m going to model early days of csx so I can run many of my chessie units, I can’t pass on up when i see it. I’ll try and posts some pictures when I have something to tak pictures of. You can see some of my last layout and some pics i’ve taken if you follow the link at the bottom.
4884Bigboy- When were those pictures taken. I was surprised to see a chessie unit in original paint.
Hi csxguy remember me? We were talking back-and-forth several months ago when you first started this thread. Looks like it’s finally taking on a life of its own![tup]
George- those pictures were taken a week ago yesterday. The Chessie GP40 is a drone, and I think is one of fewer than 10 CSX loco’s still in Chessie paint.
I hear ya, been struggling with the free-time issue myself…
I’ll try to remember to keep my camera available in my car. I drive over a CSX grade crossing on my way to- and from work each day; one of the tracks is a passing siding, and oftentimes there will be a train just sitting there, almost begging to be photographed! Now that I know there are others here who appreciate this modern stuff I’ll try to get [and post] more pics.
I’m still finding many of the blue “ex-Cons” in the lashups, along with BNSF and an occasional leased unit.
I live near quite a few grade crossings but thanks to kudzu and pine trees, i can only photograph them if i am standing on the tracks (never have never will)
Wow I never noticed this post!!! I have a freelanced CSX layout durring the merger years. It is good to see other CSX modelers, I didnt think there were too many of us. I cant wait to see a big CSX layout in MR!
Nice Pics Bigboy, its awesome to see chessie equipment still around!!!
The CSX is a cool railroad that has many great folks working there. Over the years, some of them have been VERY nice to my son and I while railfanning! We live close to the mainline between Birmingham and Nashville. There’s some neat spots to watch around here. There’s two tunnels and a few trestles not far from here. Boyles yard is close to where I work and we’ve watched many times there as well. If I were modeling a modern day railroad it would very likely be CSX.
I am a great fan of CSX because of the diversity of trains and the large amount of operating they do. I live near Buffalo so I have seen their large Frontier Yard. I also have been to Fostoria so CSX trains a-plenty there.
My favourite CSX trains are the intermodals, general merchandise and the tra***rains oddly enough (something fasinating about 40+ 89 foot USWX flatcars carrying 4 large highcube containers of trash each).
One of the many things I enjoy about modelling csx is they tend to have a lot of diffent history. Now I know that all of the carriers have their own history but it seems that CSX has a greater amount of different history. CSX is really a number of Fallen flags roled into one and a lot of the older equipmnt is around I.e. Chessie and Seaboard locomotives, plus the many variations of the csx scheme. That you can be surprised by each train you see.
Plus a lot of their lines are old lines that still hold their charm. Sandpatch is one line that comes to mind. It may have new equipment and a slightly different look but not much has changed operation wise. the same problems that were around before still haunt the csx today. The line that runs through Akron Ohio, my town, hasn’t changed very much in the past couple decades. Many other carriers are long gone but the old b&o mainline is still running the same route it did, now as the CSX. Times have changed but the line hasn’t. And each subdivison has it’s own character. Partly due the terrain but it makes things interesting.
Maybe I’m tired and had to many cups of coffee tonight. Nonetheless these are some of the things that caught my interest in CSX. hopefully we’ll get to see a good size layout in MRR soon. i was happy with the flatlands layout which had some CSX on it. Maybe on day one of our layouts will grace the cover of MRR with a CSX engine leading.
Andrew[soapbox]
Wildwood, Fla. is off I-75 and S.R.44 goes thru it . Decent size CSX yard on south side of town. On west side the bridge over the tracks gives you a great view of the yard.
The Tropicana special goes north thru the city of Ocala. Been a few years since I saw it.
Enjoyed seeing all the pictures and seeing the Coffee Clubers on this Spot.
Have fun , ya’ll.
Flip
Saw an interesting - and somewhat unsettling - situation at the CSX grade crossing on my way to work this morning.
As I was approaching around the bend, I noticed the crossing gates were down and flashing. Cars were ‘sneaking’ across from the other side, weaving in between the closed gates. I groaned, thinking that the gates were malfunctioning again (happens all too frequently), but as I glanced to my left I saw a SD70MAC less than 3 feet from the road. It was on the passing siding, waiting for a higher-priority train to pass. Apparently the loco was too close to the grade for the engineer to manually raise the gates back up.
While I waited for the opposing traffic to clear, I suddenly heard a loud blast from a 5chime - also from the left! And there it was, a 3-unit consist on the main line heading westbound (SD40-2 in YN2 scheme, SD40-2 leased unit in some faded red paint, and a GP40-2 in the stealth scheme).
I finally got tired of watching history slip thru my fingers and decided to do something about it. Now I keep my camera in my car when I’m driving to- and from work, and this afternoon I actually ‘caught’ one at the Woodstock, MD crossing - a Westbound merchandiser led by C40-8 #7514:
…hopefully this is the first of a long series![:p]
This CSX forum is great! For CSX modelers do you have a mix of paint schemes or just YN2/YN3 schemes? I have alot of Chessie, and Seaboard power still on my roster. My favorite scheme is the steath with yellow nose! I just sold my gp30 I painted on ebay, I would like to do a C40-8 in that same paint!
Here is the GP30 it was painted and numbered after a RDMT
Great pics everyone! I would love to have pictures for you to see. Unfourtnanitly my camera broke and all my available money is going towards the foam for my layout. I’m trying to find my old camera but I can’t locate it.
Keep the photos coming!
