HOME | DD
Fritzchen-26 — CSX 411
Published: 2011-09-21 08:43:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 507; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
*Edit, 31 July 2012: These signals have been removed and replaced with SafeTran devices. So much for C&O nostalgia...CSX 411 prepares to drop the signal at CP WE Ivy westbound out of Charlottesville, VA on the old C&O main. It's difficult to see here, but new signals are being installed to replace the old color-light signals that have controlled this area since the C&O.
CSX 411 GE AC44CW
CSX 16 GE AC44CW
W/B CSX Unit Coal Empties
BB Richmond & Allegheny Division (CSXT Huntington Division East, North Mountain Subdivision) CP West Ivy @ CA 189.8, Main 1
Charlottesville, VA
September 2011
Nikon D90 DSLR
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D
© Michael Mueller (Fritzchen | Fotografie). You may NOT use, replicate, manipulate, or modify this image without my permission. All Rights Reserved.
Related content
Comments: 8
I see that its a track that still has jointed rail.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
And a very lacking maintenance record. Rails in the siding date to 1927, the main to 1947. Also note the roadbed washing out on the left of the siding track - in some areas to the point that I could slide a foot under the ties. And some of those aren't even spiked to the rails anymore...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Well they'll learn to keep it up to par eventually when a train spreads the rails or derails or something.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I'm more interested to see how well-maintained the enormous trestle nearby is... SUPPOSEDLY the speed limit on this line is 15 MPH, but this train appeared to be going faster than that. I guess since this is a secondary route that primarily hauls coal it's not a huge target for funds, though they've managed to start installing new signals in the meantime to replace the perfectly functional C&O signals. Go figure, it's CSX.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Well that's not at all frightening to think about...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It is when they just did work on that interlocking.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0