(What Are They? Special High Load CSX) + NS 911 & CN I Saw Today In Mentor & Willoughby Ohio 1/14/16

Surprised....but glad....to see the number of people chasing the 911 or taking pictures of it.

Berkshire President posted:

Surprised....but glad....to see the number of people chasing the 911 or taking pictures of it.

Yea, what was surprising the most to me, was how many people crammed to get the bridge photo where as I wanted to get the photo of the whole engine in the video & photo. Also the video I'll have up later this week.

wrawroacx posted:

Someone needs to change that bulb.

Paul Moore posted:

wrawroacx posted:

Someone needs to change that bulb.

Actually when I took this photo he had Osculating Ditch Lights, so it looks like one of his lights are out. Funny though when I saw him in Mentor that his horn was blowing, but no osculating ditch lights were going as the engineer shut the osculating part off and let them stay on constant while the horn went.

As for though's large pieces of equipment, their cooling radiators for a new LNG power plant in Lordstown, OH.

I must be the only one who doesn't care for this paint scheme.

"Does Anyone know what though's large units are?"

Throw a tarp over 'em and the Navy would bill them out as "heat exchangers"!   

Craig,
I doubt that you are alone!

I really like the Real Thing, Awesome Pictures, however, Lionel did a good job on their Legacy Releases...

Craignor posted:

I must be the only one who doesn't care for this paint scheme.

 

 

 

Your not alone. I applaud the thought behind the First Responder and Veterans units, but those paint schemes are horrible.

Count me in --- of course the thought and tribute behind the paint scheme is wonderful --- I just don't like it

Looks like a fire engine

wrawroacx posted:

Paul Moore posted:

wrawroacx posted:

Someone needs to change that bulb.

Actually when I took this photo he had Osculating Ditch Lights, so it looks like one of his lights are out. Funny though when I saw him in Mentor that his horn was blowing, but no osculating ditch lights were going as the engineer shut the osculating part off and let them stay on constant while the horn went.

As for though's large pieces of equipment, their cooling radiators for a new LNG power plant in Lordstown, OH.

It was supposed to be a joke.

Big Jim posted:

"Does Anyone know what though's large units are?"

Throw a tarp over 'em and the Navy would bill them out as "heat exchangers"!   

Craig,
I doubt that you are alone!

Paul, yea I kind of thought so. 

Jim, yea your right. I was told there cooling radiators for the new LNG plant in Lordstown Ohio but had to use this track do to because there's bridge clearances on this line and I assume on the New Castle Sub.

As to the paint scheme, this is my favorite outside of NS 4000 & VGN 1069. Only thing I do say though, on pretty much most trains, I really don't count railroad paint horrible, but  that's what makes the hobby fun and ad's variety to trains.

As for me of units painted I don't care for that much is the S&A 1065 & N&W 8103 heritage's. But there still nice.

Maybe the NS fan just gets excited when a loco is painted anything else but black.

Craignor posted:

Maybe the NS fan just get excited when a loco is painted anything else but black.

Ya beat me to it.

Yea, for me, this is one of though's units, if it comes again leading, I'll go back out and try to see him again and again. Only thing I'm disappointing about, I'm disappointing how the paint is coming off below the cab.

Yes, heat exchangers.  Over here in southern Maryland, on the Pope Creek Branch line (CSX from Bowie, MD to southern MD, connected via the NEC), we had a very rare series of moves where loads like that were barged up the Potomac river and unloaded right by Rt 301 and the Morgantown power plant.  They were then trucked north a ways to the fairgrounds where they were loaded on flat cars.  CSX then pulled special trains of them through Waldorf, MD, to just north of town - a move of about a dozen miles - where they were unloaded and trucked to a new LPG power plant site.  All this was done because locals in Waldorf didn't want the heavy truck traffic going through town, even at night. 

Bob