Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX Diesels With Low Roads Numbers

1. CSX AC44CW 7 at Camden, NJ on October 10, 2012

2. CSX AC44CW 45 in Erwin, TN on January 7, 2013

3. CSX AC44CW 63 at Columbia, SC on April 18, 2013

4. CSX AC44CW 314 at Hoskins Rd, Charlotte, NC on November 26, 2012

5. CSX AC44CW 318 at Hoskins Rd, Charlotte, NC on November 26, 2012

Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



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Here's 47 at Danville, IL in 2005 and 97 in North Terre Haute, IN in 2004..

Kim Heusel



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Is there any specific reasoning for the low numbers? 

Can't say I have personally seen any single digit road numbers. Cool collection.

When the first AC locomotives were delivered, the then-president (Jerry Davis IIRC) correctly had them numbered starting at 1 to set them aside from the rest of the fleet.  He went on to do the same thing at Southern Pacific with their first AC's.  Some of the CSX units are now being rebuilt and getting 7000 series numbers which were higher horsepower GE's at the outset of CSX in the mid-80's. 

No. 7 was in the Evansville roundhouse on 1/18/20.  

Here is another low number unit. Photo taken at Lee Hall, Virginia on Dec 12, 2012.

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CSXT #1 -- #14 were delivered in '94 as #9100 -- #9113; but soon renumbered.  Amtrak P42DCs were delivered as #1 -- #207.  Milwaukee Road (CMSTP&P) had FP45s #1 -- #5.  Gerry

Edit: Brunswick, Maryland, 6/10/07.  Gerry



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And I can remember how these engines were shiny and new.......now you can't be sure if they will even run! Oh well, everything wears out. 

Chessie Wrote:
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> When the first AC locomotives were delivered, the
> then-president (Jerry Davis IIRC) correctly had
> them numbered starting at 1 to set them aside from
> the rest of the fleet.  He went on to do the same
> thing at Southern Pacific with their first AC's. 
> Some of the CSX units are now being rebuilt and
> getting 7000 series numbers which were higher
> horsepower GE's at the outset of CSX in the
> mid-80's. 
November, 1994, no wonder the kids don't remember this.
25 years have sure flown by.

The 1.
 

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HUH!

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CSX "Spirit of Bad Luck" 13.

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CSX "Spirit of the Beatles" 64.

"Will you still need me when I'm 64?"

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The original NS had GP18s #1-17. Southern renumbered them after 1974.
GM&O had B1-B82 (freight B units).
NC&StL had switchers 1-11. L&N renumbered them. 
RF&P had switchers 1-8.
SCL had SD35s 1-8 that had been modified into H15's for hump use. 
Southern acquired a 1 from Albany & Northern and another 1 from Danville & Western.



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Let's not forget that UP had oil/turbine/electrics #1 -- #30 and SD45s #1 -- #50, and AT&SF had box cabs 1A and 1B as well as E1As #2 -- #9  Gerry



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Is there a reason other rail roads don't use numbers 1-99 for any of their locomotives?  

When you think about it, if you run out of places in the four digit number series, you can get an extra numbers in one, two and three digit series. Why not? Historically, it seems that most big roads haven't used those slots with diesels.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

CSX 1 had a different nose logo in 2013 - Highland Landing (across the river from Poughkeepsie). June 29th, 2013.

Ray

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  I've been looking to see and get a picture of #1 from the day it came to CSX. Still looking...

  Steve H...