About a mile or two west of Lake City, Pennsylvania, State Route 5 curves over the CSX Erie West Subdivision on a bridge that the last time I was there had no fences. It is or at least was a good place to photograph although you had to park a short distance away and walk up.
I’ve probably been over that bridge a dozen or more times over the years but only photographed from it a couple of times that I remember. One of those was early on the morning of April 27, 2008.
Peter Bowler and I had stopped there to catch Amtrak’s eastbound Lake Shore Limited and stayed a while to photograph some eastbound CSX intermodal trains.
I don’t recall the symbol of this train, but in looking at this image more than a decade later I’m struck by how the consist includes a string of trailers on flat cars. Those can still be found on intermodal trains, but like so many other things in railroading are fading away in favor of double-stacked containers.
And yet the motive power looks pretty much the way it has for more than 20 years. Or so it seems.
This week’s two for Tuesday features a pair of CSX trains in Clinton. Both images were made on July 18, 2022. In the top image CSX GP40-2 No. 6415 is leading an eastbound. In the bottom image ES44DC No. 5272 is in charge of a westbound
Here are two images of locomotives carrying roster number 7598 taken at different times in Akron. In the top image Baltimore & Ohio SD40 No. 7598 is eastbound on May 5, 1979. In the bottom image CSX C40-8 is westbound on Aug. 2, 2010.
Here are two similar views taken in Barberton by different cameras and lenses, so the scene is somewhat different.
In the top image, Conrail 3651 is westbound on Chessie System trackage on July 20, 1980. The train is going to Warwick and from there either to Massillon or Orrville and west. This was taken with a 50mm lens, thus giving a wider scene.
In the bottom image BNSF 7810 leads the Q016 eastbound on the CSX New Castle Subdivision on June 2, 2018. This image was taken with a telephoto zoom lens.
Here are some of the differences. In the newer photo CSX has one set of tracks, there is a different relocated bridge, the Akron & Barberton Belt water tower is gone, and an Akron Barberton Cluster switcher is visible.
Here are three images made in Clinton in June 2022. CSX ES44DC No. 5255 is eastbound on June 11 with a load of auto racks. CSX AC44CW No. 330 is eastbound on June 18 with a container train. At this location, only during June and early July is it possible to get a good sunlit photo from the north side of the tracks. Finally, CSX ES44AC-H No. 775 is eastbound with auto racks on June 18, 2022.
My zoom lens came in handy when photographing this CSX westbound container train in Clinton on April 23. In the top image CSX 3386 leads the train into town. The bottom image is the same train only in a closer view.
We’ve got another two for Tuesday on the CSX New Castle Subdivision in Barberton, this one from July 19, 2021. In the top image, CSX 914 is serving as the DPU for a westbound container train headed by CSX 3179. In the bottom image we see CSX 3428 and 451 on an eastbound auto rack train.
It was a typical dreary Northeast Ohio winter day in Berea. In looking back, I’m not sure why I bothered to create photographs at all given the conditions. But I did.
On a day such as this, the appearance of an eastbound CSX interrmodal train led by a pair of BNSF “pumpkins” was a welcome sight because it gave the day a splash of bright color.
I had forgotten that I made these images until I went looking for something else and found these photos, which were made on Feb. 1, 2014.
CSX AC44CW No. 52 leads a container train on the single track segment of the New Castle Subdivision through Barberton on May 29, 2014. The unit was built by GE in February 1995. The cars on the left are on the Akron Barberton Cluster Railway.
It’s Tuesday and we have a pair made in Barberton on the CSX New Castle Subdivision on July 19, 2021. In the top image, Union Pacific 5940 wheels train K593 is eastbound. In the bottom image CSX leads a westbound stack train.
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