Eastern Railroad Discussion > 10 NS SD40-2s seen on CSX in Louisville KY 03/12/2015

This evening about 7:20PM (ET) my wife and I were on our way to dinner. We spotted a 14 unit light engine movement on CSX in Louisville. The train was northbound on #2 Track in Lyndon. For local fans, it was setting just south of the signals. I was driving on LaGrange Road looking out for potholes (some are big enough to seriously damage a car) and my wife was counting engines. There were four CSX units and the 10 NS units. I do not know if these were the NS units involved in the trade.
On the way home from dinner, we saw the northbound container train waiting on #2 Track in Lyndon. This train had two EMDs. Usually, it has two GEs.
A little further, we saw a southbound auto train on #1 Track just east of Whipps Mill Rd with two GEs.
Further, at Anchorage, we saw a southbound from the Ford truck plant waiting on #1 Track. This train had an EMD (lead) and a GE.
Finally we saw a train waiting to pull south out of the Ford truck plant with two EMDs.
Was quite an evening.
ALLEN

Do you recall any of the numbers of the CSX engines that were with those NS SD40s?

They are the ones that were traded for the SD80Macs. They are showing headed to huntington to be restenciled/painted.

Joe

joeygooganelli Wrote:
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> They are the ones that were traded for the
> SD80Macs. They are showing headed to huntington to
> be restenciled/painted.
>
> Joe

What's the Train ID?

Appalachianrails Wrote:
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> Do you recall any of the numbers of the CSX
> engines that were with those NS SD40s?

The four CSX units were together in the front of the consist, and the ten NS units were together in the back of the consist.
Unable to record any numbers.
ALLEN

Wow! Lots of activity. I often sit around HK to try and catch some action. I've never seen that much going on.

John

Appalachianrails Wrote:
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> joeygooganelli Wrote:
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> -----
> > They are the ones that were traded for the
> > SD80Macs. They are showing headed to huntington
> to
> > be restenciled/painted.
> >
> > Joe
>
> What's the Train ID?

Arrived in Louisville as X810 and should have departed as such. All 12, not 10, SD40-2's were DIT.

Bryan Jones
Brooks, KY
Bryan's Train Photos

redneckrailfan Wrote:
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> Appalachianrails Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > joeygooganelli Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > They are the ones that were traded for the
> > > SD80Macs. They are showing headed to
> huntington
> > to
> > > be restenciled/painted.
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > What's the Train ID?
>
> Arrived in Louisville as X810 and should have
> departed as such. All 12, not 10, SD40-2's were
> DIT.

Thank you

redneckrailfan Wrote:
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> Appalachianrails Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > joeygooganelli Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > They are the ones that were traded for the
> > > SD80Macs. They are showing headed to
> huntington
> > to
> > > be restenciled/painted.
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > What's the Train ID?
>
> Arrived in Louisville as X810 and should have
> departed as such. All 12, not 10, SD40-2's were
> DIT.

BRYAN:
Thanks for the post and straightening out the number. Everything happened so fast and unexpected that we were lucky to have a count in the ballpark.
ALLEN

All 12 have arrived safely in Huntington today.

The numbers of the 12: NS 3425, 3426, 3427, 3430, 3432, 3433, 3438, 3439, 3440, 3443, 3446, and 3447.


Chris Toth
NSDash9.com

I wonder what number series CSX will use. There are of course many gaps among the 8000-8488 group of SD40-2,s following retirements or conversions or the low 8900's are vacant. At least they havent got quite the pressure on number space that BNSF and UP currently have. I sometimes feel like giving up keeping track of the constant renumbering on those roads.

SD70M Wrote:
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> I wonder what number series CSX will use. There
> are of course many gaps among the 8000-8488 group
> of SD40-2,s following retirements or conversions
> or the low 8900's are vacant. At least they havent
> got quite the pressure on number space that BNSF
> and UP currently have. I sometimes feel like
> giving up keeping track of the constant
> renumbering on those roads.

They haven't decided yet but supposedly they have three different choices, start with 8889, start with 8890, or start with 8900.