RF&P
NYC 4595 leads Q139 westbound at Brunswick, MD, after coming north on the RF&P. 80MACs are rare leaders on the RF&P.
In August 2005, CSX began to take delivery of an order of GEVOs. Their first runs were back and forth on the RF&P, generally from Selkirk, NY, to Hamlet, NC. Here, the second pair, 5203 and 5202 are northbound at Ruther Glen, VA, August 25, 2005.
CSX 622, an AC6000, and a GEVO lead the juice northbound at Jones, VA, June 20, 2006.
Another bright/dark future pair lead the juice across Neabsco Creek, February 11, 2006.
CSX 5107, the W Thomas Rice Special, leads a Sealston coal train northbound at Guinea, April 30, 2003. There is another crew with pushers that will lead the train on the reverse move down the Sealston Branch.
CSX 6153, added for cab signals, leads the northbound Ringling Brother move from Hampton, VA to NJ, at Jones crossing, March 6, 2006.
A number of older ex-CR units have been used a cab signals leaders recently on the RF&P. CSX 8880 leads Q741 (empty Tropicana train) southbound on the RF&P over the road crossing by the Jones signal (mp 45.5).
With congesstion on the former C&O, a number of grain trains were rerouted east on the B&O and south on the RF&P. 70ACe 4839 leads southbound grain past the Jones signals during the summer of 2008.
Metropolitan
Road slug 2201 leads the Montgomery County, MD, trash train eastbound at Dickerson, May 28, 2004.
MARC 72 is reflected by rain water puddles along the right of way after heavy rains at Point of Rocks, MD, May 28, 2003.
Cumberland East End
CSX 9999 leads a Chicago bound CSX OCS westbound past Shenandoah Junction, WV, July 2008.
As the GEVOs get dirty, some of the repaints look better than the new units. CSX 8852 leads a CN unit with Q296 eastbound at Shenandoah Junction, August 25, 2006.
CSX 8888, the infamous runaway, leads Q261 westbound at Shenandoah Junction, WV, February 13, 2006.
Pandrol Jackson 5 grinds the rails of track 1 at Shenandoah Junction in a rain storm, June 28, 2006. While I have a number of pictures the following day in bright sunlight, you can't see the sparks.
Other
CSX 116 leads a track geometry train at Winston, VA, on Southern trackage rights for C&O trains. Once the CSX took over the RF&P, C&O trains from Richmond to Washington via the Southern stopped.
CSX 8223 leads a ballast train at Knoxville, TN, summer 1995. The river boat really passed by 30 minutes before, but with the magic of photoshop, they are pictured together.
CSX "pumpkin" 9730 is eastbound at Foley, PA, with a work train on September 28, 2001.
CSX 800 is on one of its first trips after being painted into dark future. 800, now named the Spirit of Benning (Yard), is crossing Duley's Station Road on the Popes Creek Sub., January 8, 2004.
CSX 810 leads two other Dark Future SD80MACs on the final approach to Morgantown, MD, power plant, November 28, 2004.
CSX 8881 leads the Ringling Brothers circus train eastbound down the Sandpatch grade at Fairhope, PA, March 2008.
Foreign Power on CSX
UP 8465, SD70ACe, leads Q261 westbound at the West Duffields signals, October 26, 2006.
HLCX 6504 leads a matching unit eastbound at the Shen interlocking, July 24, 2006.
UP 8335, another 70ACe, is the first know cab signal foreign unit to lead on the RF&P (in this case K651), November 19, 2005.
CN 5788 leads K122 westbound at Hobbs, WV. K121 and 122 took loads of talconite iron ore to Baltimore in the summer of 2008.
CSX visits Foreign Lines
CSX 5475 leads a rerouted Q173 southbound on the NS H-line over the Potomac River at Shephersdtowm, WV, because of closure of the WDC Anacostia River bridge.
CSX 808 leads CSX 800, another SD80MAC, with NS 106, a CSX reroute of R416 because of the closing of the Anacostia River bridge, November 16, 2006.
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