Headed Geographic South Near Sterling

CSX SD70 ACe No. 4838 leads a train headed southbound geographically on the north side of Sterling on Sept. 4, 2014. This once one of two routes the Baltimore & Ohio had to get to Cleveland.

Photograph by Robert Farkas

Getting Out of Florida to Work the New Castle Sub

Last year CSX bought 10 new EMD SD70ACe-T4 units, which the carrier classifies as ST70AH. They were initially confined to Florida’s Bone Valley operations. Recently they have been turned loose to run systemwide. In the past week two have led trains through Akron on the New Castle Subdivision. In the top image, CSX 8903 leads Q299 at Kent on Feb. 16. In the middle image No. 8906 leads Q015 at Wampum and Lowellville on Feb. 22.

Article and Photographs by Todd Dillon

NS Testing EMD SD70 ACe Demonstrators

Norfolk Southern has been testing Progress Rail’s EMD SD70ACe Tier 4 demonstration locomotives on its Winston-Salem District in Virginia and North Carolina.

Nos. 1607 and 1608 were recently moved from the facility in Muncie, Indiana, to Roanoke, Virginia and will operate on the route between Roanoke and Winston-Salem.

The demonstrators have a livery similar to that of Union Pacific and are similar to EMDX Nos. 1609 and 1610, which are still being tested on CSX.