Railfanning Cordele, GA 05-05-2023: Over An Hour Of CSX Trains And UP-Powered NS Trains

Day 2 of the staycation

0:11 (to skip intro): A Monster 202 car CSX M542 kicks off the day with 2 DC GEVOs up front and a Boxcar GEVO doing DPU duty. Surprised to see it run in the daytime, as it usually runs overnight. Also no Tropicanna Juice reefers this time.

CSX ES40DC #5265-YN3-Non-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
CSX ES40DC #5419-YN3C
CSX ES44AH #3210-YN3b (Mid-DPU)

5:45 Then already an NS appears in the form of a late 29F. To make it more interesting, it has a pair of Union Pacifics.

UP C45ACCTE #8085-Flags-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
UP AC44CWCTE #6164-Flags

10:14 Then NS 287 comes forth with a UP ACe with an AMAZING K5LLA leading a UP GEVO.

UP SD70ACe #8470-Flags-Raised Letter K5LLA Horn
UP C45ACCTE #5481-Flags

15:20 Then I025 appears with 2 GEVOs up front and a CSX Tier 4 doing DPU duty.

CSX ES44AH #772-YN3-Odd Narrow Font K5HL Horn
CSX ES40DC #5472-YN3
CSX ET44AH #3281-YN3b (Mid-DPU)


22:26 Then a near-miss shot of NS 24A with another UP GE pair.

UP AC44CWCTE #7277-Wings-Raised Letter K3LA Horn
UP C45ACCTE #7785-Flags

27:39 Then a daytime run of M648 shows up with 2 DC GEVOs leading a YN2 AC44 and a friendly conductor on board. Another surprise, all 3 are up front and there's no DPUs.

CSX ES40DC #5278-YN3-Non-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
CSX ES40DC #5494-YN3
CSX AC44CW #13-YN2

33:15 Soon then, M515 goes by wit a Boxcar GEVO leading a Tier 4 up front and another boxcar GEVO doing DPU duty. Also had a friendly engineer doing a nice horn show. Also has military equipment in the consist.

CSX ES44AH #3087-YN3b-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
CSX ET44AH #3422-YN3b
CSX ES44AH #954-YN3b (Mid-DPU)

38:55 Soon then, back-to-back M606s appear. The first M606, in which In was only able to hear the "..6-05" part on the scanner (so i'll mark it down as M606-05 for now) rolls through with a CWM up front and another CWM doing DPU duty. Note the vintage boxcars behind the lead engine.

CSX AC44CWM #7014-YN3-Non-Raised Letter K5LA Horn
CSX AC44CWM #7009-YN3b (Mid-DPU)

42:56 Then M606-04 comes along with a K5LA DC GEVO leading an AC44 up front, and another CWM DPU. Another awesome engineer as well.

CSX ES40DC #5220-YN3-Raised Letter K5LA Horn
CSX AC44CW #163-YN3C
CSX AC44CWM #7020-YN3 (Mid-DPU)

49:01 Then B207 appears with an AC44 pair up front and a CSX Tier 4 in the back. Friendly crew on board as well.

CSX AC44CW #587-YN3-Narrow Font K5LA Horn
CSX AC44CW #293-YN3b
CSX ET44AH #3259-YN3b (DPU)

52:34 Right behind B207 is E015 with a GEVO pair and another friendly engineer.

CSX ES44AH #3052-YN3b-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
CSX ES44AH #939-YN3

54:47 Then M221 appears with a Tier 4 leading an AC44, up front and surprisingly, a mid-DPU in the form of a Boxcar GEVO that's notched up, especially since it's pretty much designed to take length off of M645, which runs the Bowline now. This is also my first CSX Tier 4 leader in a while.

CSX ET44AH #3341-YN3b-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
CSX AC44CW #579-YN3
CSX ES44AH #3134-YN3b (Mid-DPU)

59:19 Then I125 goes through with another Tier 4 leading an AC44.

CSX ET44AH #3469-YN3b-Raised Letter K5HL Horn
CSX AC44CW #460-YN3b

1:04:48 Then a surprise concludes the day, and it happens to be an NS too. It's a longer than normal NS 321 with a UP AH-T4 leading a UP AC44 up front, a UP Tier 4 and a UP AH both do DPU duty.

UP SD70AH #3092-Flags-Raised Letter K5LA Horn
UP AC44CWCTE #6691-Flags
UP ET44AH #2696-Flags (Mid-DPU)
UP SD70AH #8841-Flags (Mid-DPU)











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