It may not be obvious but you are looking at two Louisville & Nashville heritage units.
No, CSX GP38-3 No. 2031 and SD40-3 No. 4065 are not wearing any L&N markings. But both units were purchased by the L&N decades ago.
Neither unit, though, came from the EMD factory looking like they do in this photograph of CSX southbound manifest freight Q561 in Hamilton, Ohio.
They were delivered as, respectively, a GP38-2 and an SD40-2. A few years ago CSX rebuilt each locomotive and in the process gave it a new squared-off cab that some wags have described as SpongeBob SquareCab after a children’s cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.
In case you were wondering, the 2031 was built in April 1972 as L&N No. 4061. The 4065 emerged as L&N 8074.
The train they are helping to pull will soon complete its journey from Selkirk Yard near Albany, New York, to Queeesgate Yard in Cincinnati.
The image was made last Friday on the joint line used by southbound CSX and Norfolk Southern trains in Hamilton.
Article and Photograph by Craig Sanders
Tags: CSX, CSX GP38-3, CSX locomotives, CSX motive power, CSX SD40-3 locomotives, CSX Toledo Subdivision, Hamilton Ohio, L&N locomotives, L&N motive power, Louisville & Nashville
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