Eastern Railroad Discussion > Brunswick & Point of Rocks, Maryland, 10/29/25

Brunswick
1. The w/b CSXT B774 (ethanol empties) is led at 09:11 by ES44AH #3095 + ES40DC #5422 + CW44AC #406, built 9//99.
2. The w/b M415 is tied down on #4 Runner at 09:15.

Gerry

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Point of Rocks
3. The e/b CSXT M415 (570 axles) is led at 10:29 by SD70AC #4530, built 11//99 as #730, + ES40DC #5215 +
4. CW44AC #148, built 3//96.
5. The e/b CSXT B456 (216 axles) is led at 10:49 by ES44AHs #3026 + #3121.

Gerry

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Point of Rocks
6. An e/b CSXT coal train (544 axles) led at 11:19 by ES44AH #872 + ET44AH #3314 crosses from #1 to #3 Main with
7. DPUs CM44AC #7243, rebuilt from CW44AC #265 built 10//96, + CW44AC #255, built 9//96.
8. The w/b CSXT L153 (8 cars of loaded ash containers from the Montgomery County trash incinerator on the PEPCo Lead) is led at 11:25 by CM44AC #7222, rebuilt from CW44AC #332 built 4//98, on #2 Main.

Gerry

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Point of Rocks
9. An e/b CSXT train (420 axles) is led at 11:51 by ES40DC #5343 + ES44AH #944 on #1 Main.
10. The w/b CSXT M408 (416 axles) is led at 13:09 by ES40DC #5501 + ES44AH #1871 (Atlantic Coast Line), built as #3054.
11. Amtrak 41 is led by P42DCs #78, built 4//97, + #159, built 4//01, at 13:15, about 1:20 late.

Gerry

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Brunswick
12. The w/b CSXT M277 is led at 14:07 by CM44AH #7506, rebuilt from CW44AH #585 built 8//02, + ES44AH #3075 on #2 Main.
13 & 14. M408 uses #5 Runner at 14:11 while setting out intermodal cars for pick up by w/b CSXT I135.
 
References:
That site that archives railroad pictures
https://www.bullsheet.com/bullsheet.com/index.html
 
Gerry

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Thanks as usual, Gerry, for the outstanding up to date photos along the old B&O.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

so why does M408 and I135 work at brunswick?

nick

Darthsimpletext Wrote:
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> so why does M408 and I135 work at brunswick?
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> nick

To get CCX (Carolina Connector IM ramp, Rocky Mount, NC) stack cars to North Baltimore and Chicago as there is no direct Chicago (or North Baltimore) train pair serving the relatively new CCX. Probably not enough volume (yet?) to justify.

But now with BNSF partnering with CSX on IM moves, combined with BNSF IM service from California and the PNW direct into North Baltimore, perhaps volume can grow enough to justify at least a North Baltimore-CCX train pair.

Now ask "how does CSX maintain CCX lanes to/from StL?", I don't know if these lanes still exist (because the service was so slow with more than one block swap) but because there's no StL-North Baltimore IM train, the CCX block would get swapped out somewhere along the Big Four IM route from StL and ride manifest trains through Cumberland.