This Is Something I Have Never Ever Seen Before - CSX Ethanol Train with 2 UP & DODX Flatcars / DODX Caboose!!!

Nice catch Tom!

Sweet.

Must be, somehow, related to "precision scheduled railroading."

Tom,

Nice catch

I always enjoy your posts

That’s cool Tom, ....heck, just seeing a caboose period is cool, .....😁

Pat

Cool indeed!!!

I saw my first Amtrak train on N&W tracks from Norfolk last Friday, it was near Zuni Va about 0930.  I thought they only ran real early in the morning or real late at night.  Probably no more than 6 cars long.

I have seen west coast engines pulling here in Va, but it's rare.  And that caboose is even more so.

I'm not a real RR guy. I would guess by what I have seen, that there maybe something to having cars on ends of tank car trains. Buffer cars I believe they call them?

So if they had to deliver some empty cars, maybe hook them onto the end?? Dual purpose?

@Engineer-Joe posted:

I'm not a real RR guy. I would guess by what I have seen, that there maybe something to having cars on ends of tank car trains. Buffer cars I believe they call them?

So if they had to deliver some empty cars, maybe hook them onto the end?? Dual purpose?

Joe, yeah that would be the case. But this is an ethanol train. Usually ethanol's don't have a buffer on the rear, oil trains do. As to this, these 3 cars on the rear are being transported somewhere.

Nice catch. Like the flat cars.

@Bob Delbridge posted:

Cool indeed!!!

I saw my first Amtrak train on N&W tracks from Norfolk last Friday, it was near Zuni Va about 0930.  I thought they only ran real early in the morning or real late at night.  Probably no more than 6 cars long.

I have seen west coast engines pulling here in Va, but it's rare.  And that caboose is even more so.

You must not live to far from me Bob, I’ve seen those UP engines down in the yard off 464 in Norfolk too....

Pat

12-5-20

Great Catch Tommy, and keep them coming....I go back far enough that a Cab was just a given.....

Here's a members link with a DODX nuclear waste transport cars.

https://ogrforum.com/...t-310-with-blue-4000

Thanks for the caboose offering!