I like seeing the coal come through Waxhaw,NC with the pusher. Have seen empty
hoppers going south/west Monday and Tuesday. Keep seeing the TILX hopper train,
saw it yesterday, anyone know where its coming from and where it going?
Just about 1.5 hours ago, we (Lincoln NE) sent another loaded coal train from the west down thru St Joe and possibly your direction from TILX. I don’t remember what the power was, but it may have had a DPU and I know 2 motors on the head end.
TILX is pretty regular thru here. And I know we have a “regular” through here that goes to Georgia, so not much of a stretch to think that this might be the one you saw.
Hope this helps.
Mook
The train that goes to Georgetown SC will pass Waxhaw NC.
Just curious what the routing is of western coal to Kingston Tn. BNSF with DPUcomes north out of Chattanooga to Harriman, a wild guess of 2 or 3 trains a week as they blend with eastern coal.
I live in Chapin on CSX’s CN&L (old Columbia, Newberry, & Laurens RR) Subdivision. I see the TILX cars passing through town (with DPU when loaded; sometimes all 3 on the head end when empty). Not sure where they are headed.
I have also been out railfanning (“foaming”) in Fairfax, SC and saw TILX cars coming from (the direction of) Yemassee and headed through Allendale (which I think then goes on to Augusta?). This train only had 2 locos at the head end.
Have you noticed that they are 2 different types of TILX cars. One type (which I started seeing first) has regular doors on the bottom (5 bay, rapid-discharge). The other type has a bottom more like a bathtub gondola, except it is squared off & doesn’t seem as deep. These cars have what looks like a little red palm tree painted on them & there is a name on the car (like the design name) but I can’t remember what the lettering is.
Happy train watching (“Foaming!”)
These are the one’s I see coming through Waxhaw and Monroe, NC by way of Charlotte.
The other type has a bottom more like a bathtub gondola, except it is squared off & doesn’t seem as deep. These cars have what looks like a little red palm tree painted on them & there is a name on the car (like the design name).
Okay. I still don’t know who owns the TILX cars. Is there a list, somewhere, of all “X” cars and their owners? I am a member of AAPRCO and can tell you who owns most of the private passenger cars, even if not Amtrak compapible. That may get me thrown out of the American Association of Private Rail Car Owners, but I’ll chance it, with the understanding that you will pay to ride on one of them, or even buy one of your own!
Bill
This may be a division of Trinity Industries , a freight car manufacturer which has other types of cars as well in its Leasing unit
TILX is indeed one of the reporting marks of the Trinity Industries Leasing Company. They’re one of the big players in tank cars now, not only under their own reporting marks, but in building cars for General American (GATX) and General Electric (NATX). They also have a good-sized lease fleet of covered hoppers, coal cars (gon and hopper), ordinary gons, and mechanical refrigerator cars (both ex-BNSF and ex-UPFE, built by Trinity Industries).