E255 Unit Coal Train?

MSchwiebert · Unread post by **MSchwiebert** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:26 am

Yesterday evening (around 5:30 PM) there was a southbound unit coal train that went south by my house in Perrysburg OH (CSX Toledo Sub). The Symbol that the crew gave over the scanner was E-255 (which is not listed in the bullsheet). "Home road" unit coal trains are uncommon on the Toledo sub (contrasted to the PRB trains) and I was wondering what the orgin/destination of this train was. A couple of car numbers for tracing are: CSX 391593 & 397648. Most of the Cars were the CSX gray coal hoppers with a few ex conrail rotary dump cars thrown in.

Unread post by **~Z~** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:00 pm

Looks to be this:
E25527 TOLDOCK - CORBIN MTYS
TOLEDO DOCK OH to CORBIN KY
Currently at: CINCINNATI OH 0KC110 07-29-2008 05:18, ran through Lima on it's way down.

MSchwiebert · Unread post by **MSchwiebert** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:11 pm

Thanks! I was guessing that they were empties - but the lead SD40-2 was straining pretty good to get out of town so I wasn't 100% sure.

railroadfan wrote:Looks to be this:
E25527 TOLDOCK - CORBIN MTYS
TOLEDO DOCK OH to CORBIN KY
Currently at: CINCINNATI OH 0KC110 07-29-2008 05:18, ran through Lima on it's way down.

Racer · Unread post by **Racer** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:46 pm

Hmmm, that's odd. I was at Vicker's Junction with Jon (aka GrideJQ) from 10pm Sunday night until about 2pm yesterday afternoon and didn't see any train from Toledo docks with SD40-2 power. They must of swapped the power in Walbridge because all the empty trains from Toledo Docks went to Walbridge Yard.

MSchwiebert · Unread post by **MSchwiebert** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:24 am

Lead unit was a SD40-2 trailer was AC44. Considering that it was through Perrysburg at 5:30, It probably didn't leave the docks until after you left Vickers.

Chrisracer8903 wrote:Hmmm, that's odd. I was at Vicker's Junction with Jon (aka GrideJQ) from 10pm Sunday night until about 2pm yesterday afternoon and didn't see any train from Toledo docks with SD40-2 power. They must of swapped the power in Walbridge because all the empty trains from Toledo Docks went to Walbridge Yard.

Racer · Unread post by **Racer** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:45 am

MSchwiebert wrote:Lead unit was a SD40-2 trailer was AC44. Considering that it was through Perrysburg at 5:30, It probably didn't leave the docks until after you left Vickers.

That trailing AC44 wasn't CSX 99 by any chance was it?

Typhoon · Unread post by **Typhoon** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:56 am

Chrisracer8903 wrote:Hmmm, that's odd. I was at Vicker's Junction with Jon (aka GrideJQ) from 10pm Sunday night until about 2pm yesterday afternoon and didn't see any train from Toledo docks with SD40-2 power. They must of swapped the power in Walbridge because all the empty trains from Toledo Docks went to Walbridge Yard.

If they had swapped power out at Walbridge, they would not have gone down the Toledo sub. The train would have run down the C&O to Fostoria.

MDH · Unread post by **MDH** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:29 am

Chrisracer8903 wrote:
MSchwiebert wrote:Lead unit was a SD40-2 trailer was AC44. Considering that it was through Perrysburg at 5:30, It probably didn't leave the docks until after you left Vickers.
That trailing AC44 wasn't CSX 99 by any chance was it?

Chris,

I can say with some confidence that you missed that one because it was after you said you left. I'm pretty sure I heard him coming down the terminal from the docks around 5PM +/- and I remember because I didn't recognize the symbol and was suprised to hear it talking to Stanley tower and heading down the Sub.

See you around!

Regards,
Michael

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E255 Unit Coal Train?

E255 Unit Coal Train?