Just Passing Thru Rutledge Railroad Station Art

by Reid Callaway

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Just Passing Thru Rutledge Railroad Station Art

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Reid Callaway

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Photograph - Photography

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Just Passing Thru.....by Reid Callaway
Rutledge Railroad Station
CSX Train Art

I heard this CSX locomotive train coming down the tracks as I was photographing historic Rutledge, Georgia.

CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad in the United States and the initialism means Chessie and Seaboard System. The main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation, the railroad is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km). CSX operates one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and Canadian Pacific Railway. It also serves the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Together CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway have a duopoly over all east-west freight rail traffic east of the Mississippi River. As of October 1, 2014 CSX's total public stock value was slightly over $32 billion.
CSX currently uses a blue and yellow paint scheme for its locomotives. More than 1,000 CSX locomotives are painted in the YN3 scheme, which debuted in 2002 on No. 8503, an EMD SD50 that has since been downgraded to an SD50-2.
CSX recently created a new paint scheme, known as YN3b or more informally "Cost Cutter", which updates YN3 with the most recent CSX logo. The first unit to wear this scheme was ES44AH 950. Currently, CSX's ES44AHs 950-999 and 3000�3374 wear the scheme, along with several recently repainted older locomotives, the first of which was SD70MAC 4719, which was repainted at the Huntington Locomotive Shops in September 2012. CSX has also obtained a few EMD F40PHs that were retired from Amtrak for executive office car service.

All of the former-Conrail locomotives in active service have been repainted in a CSX paint scheme. Former Conrail locomotives can be spotted by recognizing phase differences in engine models and numbering. Other spotting details can be inconsistent, but can include a number of the following: red marker lights, Leslie model RS3L or RS5T air horns(only a few original horns remain. Many have been replaced by K5LAs.) former Conrail SD40-2s ride on Flexicoil "C" trucks and have anticlimbers, ditch lights mounted beneath the anticlimber, headlights above the cab (vs. CSX's standard practice of nose mounted headlights on all wide-nose GE units), and modified "Bright Future" paint with battery box faces painted yellow (instead of black or blue).

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September 18th, 2016

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