Western Railroad Discussion > Not an Everyday Sight!

Got a tip from a friend yesterday that two "older" CSXT engines were leading a coal empty near Creston, IA yesterday.  He and some others had heard about it and driven there to follow the train to Lincoln, NE.

This is definitely something that would get this geezer out of the house!  I stayed in touch with them throughout the after noon but didn't go out until the train neared Lincoln.  These two shots are at the 84th Street crossing on Lincoln's northeast corner.

CSX SD40-2 8400 and SD50-3 8536 were leading E-CXCBTM.  I'm told that 8400 was built in 1969 and started life as WM 7449.  

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Good catch!

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Thanks for sharing Tom! Made the crew feel like the old local days.

BB

Nice shot!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

Nice. Even better than I had pictured on the phone!

Willie W

Very nice catch and photos, my kind of power.
Thanks for your photo posting.
ALLEN

Very NICE catch!!

Larry

Wonder how many crew members weren't even working yet when these locomotives ruled the roost? Good to see them out and about.

Awesome!  I'd have gone after that one too!

Andy

Nice !  Now that's a True Heritage Unit !  Here it was back on 5/1/83 at Grafton,WV.  Glad to see it can still get out there on the point. Not bad for a unit that started out over 52 years ago !

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perklocal Wrote:

> ... Now that's a True Heritage Unit !  Here it was back on 5/1/83 at Grafton,WV.  Glad to see it can still get out there on the point.

I don't understand this.  "twjurgens" stated that 8400 was originally WM 7449 (i.e., "I'm told that 8400 was built in 1969 and started life as WM 7449") but "pweklocal" posts a photo of WM 7549.

Ahhh, a nice fresh blast of traditional EMD air on the face and camera. Good stuff!

JG

That's gonna go south at the mine. Can't mix them with wide cab  power AND not DP qualified too boot. Yea old Fly in the ointment:)

johnsweetser Wrote:
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> perklocal Wrote:
>
> > ... Now that's a True Heritage Unit !  Here it
> was back on 5/1/83 at Grafton,WV.  Glad to see it
> can still get out there on the point.
>
> I don't understand this.  "twjurgens" stated that
> 8400 was originally WM 7449 (i.e., "I'm told that
> 8400 was built in 1969 and started life as WM
> 7449") but "pweklocal" posts a photo of WM 7549.

Because Chessie renumbered the WM units.  7449 became 7549.

Neat shots Tom.  Really nice to see the standard cab units nowadays.
Brian Stevens

Surprised they didn’t swap them out at Galesburg and send them back to CSX

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