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Indeed he meant the gons used for pig iron. I&O struggling mightily in Cincy getting anything moved with any sort of regularity. They are talking about bringing back the old 204/209 which would be a solid pig iron train three days a week. I don't think logistics are in place to pull that off i.e. a...

alittlevanwerty wrote:WE 4025 going to be getting on at Crestline to bring a rail train to Lima

If you can, please keep updates on this guy. CG Tower and I are going to be in Lima this afternoon would be interested in this.

I&O light engines south by Columbus Grove @ 2:40pm. OC 4028, HLCX 8140, and CIND 2002, one of the orange gensets. Look out if they run a Northstar extra tomorrow, as the genset is facing north...

From what I've heard NS doesn't have enough pilot crews for any excursions and the increased freight traffic is taking up open spaces. FWRRHS issued a statement to a group of people somewhere (I can't remember exactly but it was a celebration of some sort) saying that NS doesn't have the resources ...

MagnumForce wrote:New Paint and new sign on the Office/ Old Wabash Station in town.

new digs by Brent Kneebush, on Flickr

Wow! I especially love the red trim along the windows and roofline. What a class act...

Y@ wrote:Northbound Northstar job getting on at XN right now.

4084-9500-4085 for power.

Also, the 5012 was sitting crewless at the south end of Ford Park in Lima with a large cut of cars.

midland sub wrote:Is that the first orange turd to go north of Lima?

Nah, not the first one. 5013 & 5014 have been north of Lima a few times. One of them I believe has been the Lima yard engine for quite awhile

I&O ran an empty grain train north around 1pm with a pair of CSX GEs on point, currently still waiting on the I&O at Leipsic. Met the southbound LNL at Ottawa, who had just finished working on the loop. IORY 9500, 4085, and 5012 for power on the LNL, with around 35 cars (3 CHs up front, followed by ...

StupidFlee​t wrote:

heartlandguy wrote:Side question, does the 9500 still have its 20 cylinder engine or no?

Probably not, it's a SD45R.

Rog... Wasn't sure if SP replaced those or not when they did those rebuilds

A late-running, monster LNL just got back onto the I&O at DT&I Junction, north of Lima @ 2pm. IORY 9500 and 4085 giving it all they had with easily 80+ cars in tow. No exact count, but lots of mixed freight on the head end (including several CHs and loaded centerbeams), followed by about 10-12 coil ...

On the way home from a delicious supper with the family at Five Guys in Lima this evening, I pulled up the ATCS to find a very early I&O train preparing to pull onto the CSX mainline at DT&I Junction. With plenty of sunlight left and gas in the tank, we detoured into Cairo to find him. Soon after I ...

We canned the remainder of the RCO Drone fleet today, so you can kiss those goodbye and good riddance. Asterisk says the 9156 and 9151 are not yet officially retired, but both have had their RCO brains stripped, and are thus worthless piles of junk, although I'm sure some would argue they always we...

DT&I wrote:ICG 1776 added

That looks sick. another awesome job Owen!

C&OGP75745 wrote:look for that train tomorrow sometime.

Will layover in Walbridge yard tonight. Power is CSX 9998 and 9999 (F40PHs)

Y@ wrote:The grain had two CSX C40-8W's. I saw them pull into the loop around 05:30 and the I&O crew took it north around 09:30.

The one I saw was northbound through CG around noon. Looked like it was a shorter, 60 car train though. The former DT&I was hoppin yesterday!

Raising this thread from the dead . I&O ran two northbounds today: an extra LNL and an empty grain train. Didn't see the LNLX, but the empty grainer had a solo CSX GE.

AltoonaWorks just posted a photo of the finished product:
https://www.facebook.com/altoonaworks/p ... =1&theater

Looks good...

Neat, look forward to more on this one!

All the DM&E power is owned by CP, CP seems to assign garbage power to its ethanol trains and then send them east, as such the power that the CSX guys have to run is junk, doesn't matter who's it is, and there is definitely no shortage of junk power on CSX. There is some newer stuff but even the AC...

Z831-09 by DT&I Junction at around 1:50pm. IORY 5014 (G&W paint) and 4082 with around 30 cars of mixed freight (loaded centerbeams, CN boxcars, lots of covered hoppers, a 10-15 car block of pig iron mtys, and some coil cars on the rear). Not sure why the different symbol, might've just been a fluke ...