Renewed KIds On The Block - a photo on Flickriver

            As everyone should know by now my favorite locomotive is EMD's SD70MAC. Six railroads purchased variations of the locomotive, the Alaska, Burlington Northern, BNSF, Conrail, CSX, and Kansas City Southern, totaling just over 1,100 units.

CSX purchased 3 groups of what they call SD70AC, and inherited another small group of units from the Conrail split. All told CSX ended up with 220 units. The first 90 as tier 0 units, and 130 as tier 1 units with flared radiators.

After getting called to recrew a M370 west of Garrett, IN. early morning, we arrived and stopped at Hoytville interlocking at the west end of CSXT's North Baltimore, OH. yard around 09:30. With other trains tied down on #1 track, we had to wait for B522 to come past before we could pull down to the crew change on #2 track at the crew building to hand M370 off to the next crew.

As B52218 came into view my conductor noticed the unmistakable noes of a EMD. As it got closer and passed leading the train was a pair of freshly rebuilt SD70AC flared units. The crew was informed to pull past the interlocking at Hoytville, and wait for there recrew.

While my original plan was to head home after work to relax and listen to the Daytona 500, I now knew I had other plans. At least I could still listen to the race on the radio.

Fortunately for me, after pulling down to trade out with the outbound crew, they quickly made there way out of the building to take over. After walking into the building it was discovered the recrew for B522 was just getting ready to head out the door. I put my boots, jacket, and grip in my locker, tied up and headed out the door.

Knowing I had time, I made my way west 7 miles over to Deshler, OH. It was not long and the B522 was on the move. I decided to shoot from the Deshler reservoir as the train turned south to head for towards the Cincinnati area.

As B52218 turned south they were routed into the west siding to meet the M558 at South Deshler. Seen passing over the siding switch with "Downtown" Deshler in the background is freshly rebuilt CSXT 4720 & 4741 are leading 41 loaded steel slab cars and 32 empty steel coil cars bound for Cleveland Cliffs steel mill in Middletown, OH.

Taken in: United States / Ohio / Village of Deshler (show map)

Taken on: February 18, 2024

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Camera: Nikon D5600, f/11.0, 1/640 sec, 34mm (=51mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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