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CSX GP40-2 6047 and a road slug wait for a crew on a rail train while 6098 waits on the yard lead for the next work train job. Both engines are sitting in front of the old C&O yard office in St. Albans on a dreary winter day.
Strangers in this land, the orange BNSF livery is enhanced by the red sunrise as 4752 and GP60B 326 (a rare treat in these parts) take a grain train east through St. Albans.
CSXT SD40 4617 still in C&0 paint has been assigned to CSXT'S Boyles Terminal in Tarrant City, Al. in yard service after having been assigned to Cumberland, Md. for several years
CSXT 444 follows the same curve at Sproul WV as thousands of other CSX, Chessie System and Chesapeake and Ohio locomotives have. Moving coal from the mines along Coal River has been this railraod's job for over 100 years. C&OHS photo of C&O K4 used with permission.
During he same trip in April of 1987 (see my other chessie pics) we stopped in Murfreesboro, TN to visit my mom's best friend from high school. This was a historic area for the Stones River Battlefield was close by. The CSX Crew was heading out with this old GP-30 and Caboose for some local work...
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