Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:

NathanFromEngland wrote:

Erik-Gorb-Hamilton wrote:

freebrickproductions wrote:Speak of the devil, it appears that the CSX Dash-9s are going off the roster now. Here's a couple of screenshots from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum webcam of 9018 with the logos marked out, showing that CSX no longer owns this engine:

ExCSX9018(1).jpg

ExCSX9018(2).jpg

These were taken by a railfan in a Facebook group I'm in.

Those appear to dash 8's, Although I know that those are classified as a C44-8W.

9018 is a Dash 9.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopi ... 264&Page=4

"Notes: ex-C44-8W"

I want to say they were built as very late Dash-8s, but CSX had them upgraded to Dash-9 specs later on (or at the very least, redesignated them as Dash-9s).

Second Engine (CSXT #7862) has been retired now, but lead engine (CSXT 7680) hasn't.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopi ... 438&Page=4

Diversity in Motion engines have been retired, according to the CSX Locomotives Facebook page

NathanFromEngland wrote:Diversity in Motion engines have been retired, according to the CSX Locomotives Facebook page

Even Diversity in Motion #5000, which was wrecked back in October 2016, was also retired.

I don't know as much about locomotives like you guys but don't Class 1s retire aging fleet all the time?

ToledoRailfan wrote:I don't know as much about locomotives like you guys but don't Class 1s retire aging fleet all the time?

Yea, but usually they replace them with newer engines, or engines from another railroad that they merged with. This is CSX literally just chopping their entire roster in half in an attempt to save money with no replacements.

freebrickproductions wrote:

ToledoRailfan wrote:I don't know as much about locomotives like you guys but don't Class 1s retire aging fleet all the time?

Yea, but usually they replace them with newer engines, or engines from another railroad that they merged with. This is CSX literally just chopping their entire roster in half in an attempt to save money with no replacements.

Ahh... I guess its also kinda a bummer when older equipment get retired. But that's just the circle of railroad life.

I'm also kinda curious what this means for the future of CSX. It's been a while sense we've seen a major change in the Class 1 "world" (i.e Mergers, Railroads dissolving with there lines either being partitioned by other Class 1s (and maybe larger Class 2s) or just being completely taken over by another Class 1, New Class 1s coming into existence, ect.).

*(Also, for some reason I wasn't noticed of your response)

CSX 616 (SAL emblem) has been sold off to PRLX, word is that its being leased to CN for a year.
What a giant f***ing mistake from CSX, they establish the stickers, then they retire them.

NathanFromEngland wrote:CSX 616 (SAL emblem) has been sold off to PRLX, word is that its being leased to CN for a year.
What a giant f***ing mistake from CSX, they establish the stickers, then they retire them.

Agreed. Also, let's not curse on this railroad website forum.

Ethan the Railfanner wrote:

NathanFromEngland wrote:CSX 616 (SAL emblem) has been sold off to PRLX, word is that its being leased to CN for a year.
What a giant f***ing mistake from CSX, they establish the stickers, then they retire them.

Agreed. Also, let's not curse on this railroad website forum.

Don't act like you've never seen someone cuss.