CSX Report 1-27-2009: Romulus Raiders

[Racer]

Today I got out of class and checked-out Romulus to have Geeps and Tabone railfanning down there, too. I didn't expect to go down there so I have no camera, but a written report of what we saw:

12:40pm: CP 23T Westbound with CP 9766, CP 8791 and 85 cars (22 loads and 63 empties).

12:50pm: L63 Westbound with NS 5263 (Still in Conrail Operation Lifesaver paint) and no cars.

1:05pm: Q321 Southbound with CSX 7539, CSX 8709, and 85 cars (2 autoracks, 46 covered hoppers, 13 AEX hoppers (Looked like they were yanked from storage) 9 tank cars, 5 boxcars, 2 centerbeam cars, 5 loaded gondolas, and 3 spine cars that looked to have some sort of garbage load containers on them).

1:45pm: Q289 Northbound with CSX 8077 ("Colonial Phillip Hooper" stamped under the side window) and CSX 7874 switching empty autoracks at TDSI in New Boston.

Dispite the fact I didn't have my camera, it was pretty good day to see trains compared to the last 2 weeks of almost nothing.

[CAT345C]

[TrainWatcher]

Great shots mikey....

WTF with #8077?? never heard of a SD40 with a name on it... not even on any roster I have looked at...

[BB]

Great pics Mike. The first two are nice compositions with the fence. CSX 8077 was the leader on the Santa Train of 2002 and 2003 in the southern states.

[CAT345C]

Sweet thanks BB I've been trying to pay more attention to my surroundings for better shots

[AARR]

I like the photo with the CSX auto rack tandem (whatver they call it

[CAT345C]

AutoMAX! I've never seen an actual auto max, only the TTX versons.

[Rick M]

Good pictures and report and am glad traffic is starting to pick up. Good catch with the conrail engine.

[CAT345C]

Well railpicky said the first two CP photos were bad composition ha.

[MDH]

Well railpicky said the first two CP photos were bad composition ha.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=269180

Nice shot Mike!

[CAT345C]

OH sweet, I just reuploaded it at like 1am cool! that makes 5 on rail picky.