Early CSX mixture of power

Three Chessie engines, WM GP40-2 4318, CO U30B 5350, and BO GP40-2 3753 lead a Seaboard System unit on the final approach to the summit of Sand Patch grade.

Big footed Chessie cats haul a coal train West on the P&LE main at College Station. Four axle units still ruled the fleet at the time, as CSX had over 700 GP-40 & GP40-2's, so catching these big u... (more)

Approaching Cumberland at Viaduct Jct. in August 1976. Note the rider in the cab of the third unit. Presumably, the fireman's rule is still in effect.

The return leg of the Henry Turn is northbound on the Peoria line behind a trio of new GP15Ts. At Bureau Jct, the train will enter the mainline and head east.

The Henry Turn pulls interchange traffic from the Iowa Railroad just west of the junction between the Peoria and Quad Cities lines in Bureau, Illinois. In the photo, they are passing an IRRC U30B ... (more)

When CSX took over operation of a section of the former Rock Island between Blue Island and Henry, they used all sorts of geeps, and - once in a Blue Moon - U-boats. After sufficient numbers of GP... (more)

The homeward-bound leg of the weekday turn out of Montgomery is headed south with a pretty healthy train. GP40s had been prevalent on the old WofA from the late 1960s onward, but the paint on this... (more)

GP35 #3532 in untouched C&O paint leads Chessie SD50 #8634 on a southbound coal drag on one of those typical east coast hot, hazy summery days. The SD50s were new in 1986 and this train had two m... (more)

Chessie power that came North on a loaded coal train is headed South on RS-1. The lead engines are a pair of G&W C-424m's, which are stopped in front of the yard office so the crew can get their o... (more)

Aftermath of a headon collision: Engine 4136, 2nd unit in the ESSP, landed upside down after climbing over, and shearing off, the long hood of lead unit 4443. Engine 4309, leading SLWB, climbed ... (more)

The crew of ESSP stops to inspect the carnage that is left from the head on collision between ESSP and SLWB that occured on 2/6/1987. The 4309 was leading the SLWB which rode up over the top of 44... (more)

Purr-fect Transportation
Thirty-nine years later, Chessie can still be found sleeping on her pillow. This pop art style of logo was the brainchild of Franklyn Carr in 1972 by combinin... (more)

The 614 pulls the "Chessie Safety Express" on a warm, May 31, 1981.

RS-97 is stopped at the Marble Road grade crossing waiting for the O.K. to proceed across the diamond at Machias Jct.