Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX Unit at shops in RNKE

In a recent day, matter of fact last friday while in rnke, Noticed a CSX Widebody sitting at the shops in Rnke on NS. Why is she over there possibilities?

Steven Nicely
MP274.10

Also visited the transportation museum... Almost cried to see the 1218 and 611 under cover.....

It might have showed up with an interchanged train, power tends to go visitng like that often, and then maybe came up on 30 day inspection, or had some fault that CSX authorized NS to repair since it was already on their territory.

Possibly in for a repair.. seized wheelsets maybe?? If NS cant tow a seized wheelset unit to the nearest CSXT interchange, then NS will perform repairs and foot CSX the bill.

I have seen Conrail units on P&W shops.. and Amtrak F40 units on Central Vermont shops in New London, CT in the early 80's. They all have hotboxes and failed bearings.. only choice is to take them to the nearest shops for repairs and foot the bills to railroaders.

Even tho, I have seen UP, SP, NS, BNSF or CN units inside Selkirk shops for serious repairs. One time there was a CN SD40-2 lost a truck on a derailment in Little Falls, NY in the 80's Conrail had to fix it for CN in Selkirk then tow it dead back to CN the next following weeks after the investigation.

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