@CN413Fox That's a B30-7. Like you said CN413Fox, those are the best days of CSX because of the oddball CSX locomotives, most locomotives being standard cabs, and because of the classic GE Dash 7's and U boats. Long live the 90's!!!!!!!!!!
The unit that you see at 4:22 is a BQ23-7,only 10 of these were ever built.THe cabs were constructed so that the whole crew would ride up front and they would not be using cabooses.The units at 5:21 and 7:15 are GP-35 slugs.Prime movers removed ,but traction motors retained from the extra traction when needed.
@cheechchongfan97 I think thats a U boat wide cab. The design was originally intended to replace the need for a caboose when it was pushing, and had room for 5 crew members in the cab.
The Green jeeps were built for the Reading RR. They went to the Delaware & Hudson then Guilford Trans (the grey engine with orange stripe). CSX bought them in '91. Most if not all are working in FL now.
This is why i like the line near my house Its a CSX Branch lline off of Brunswick and theres no wide cabs due to several wooden trestles. I saw a GP39 (1 out of 5) this week!
Outstanding blast from the past! Love that GP-30 in CSX paint. It doesn't seem that overly long ago that it was brand new, and the old units were GP-7's and GP-9's!
I kinda like the look of yesteryear. The Uboats, gps, Sd, as well as the designs and sounds. It really gave trains a personality that the public loved. Each engine had its own character which spoked directly to the kid at heart. I kinda missed them greatly. I stand track side not to see the usual, but the unusual. Like today, I caught unexpected coal drag that comes once a month on different RR. Im looking forward to seening the circuse train. Great Video.
6845 and 4233 are gone, but 4316 and 4309 are still around in Florida. Maybe the 4233 is a slug? Checked the 3108, gone, however 2576 still here........Interesting engine 5526 still marked C&O here or not, cannot tell..........wow, 4316 ex-MKT! Neat! Incredible video, love every minute. I lived this from 1980 to 1990 and model same today.
All I can say is bring your earplugs when riding in those standard cabs, they are loud. Wide cabs are nice just for the fact that they are quieter and you don't have to listen to that air purge every time move the auto/ind. or even the bell. I like the GP/SD for the nostalgic factor and when I get a 40 Snoot, I'm happy on the inside.
Nice! Miss those days, GP30's weren't all slugs, U-Boats chugging around, Chessie everywhere and you were allowed to dismount moving equipment. Like the ex-RDG unit too!
I also remember CSX Mail 1 and 2 behind my grandpap's house in orange park, florida when he was still a dispatcher for CSX. i have seen alot of trains run through there.
Where was this video taken at? I do not see any landmarks I am famalier unless this is Atlanta GA. What a great collection of now, rare diesels:UBoats (Man hole covers), GP30s and others.......love this and thank you for posting.
A BQ23-7, basically a B23 with a bigger cab for the crew since they weren't using cabooses much anymore. Only 10 were built, all for SCL/LN, which CSX inheirited. Last time I saw one it was in Southern Indiana, and the windows were plated over and they used it as a "B" unit. (no cab controls, just a power unit)
Excellent video. Were you an employee or a railfan and they let you on to the property to film?. So cool seeing classic Spartan Cab EMDs and pug nosed GE U-Boats with the classic 4-cycle "Chug". SCL was, generally, railfan friendly back in the late 70s and fans would come to the yards in Florida to photograph or film as long as they didn't weren't careless. Sad that those days are gone.
I like wide cabs but I have to admit, I miss seeing normal SD40(-2)'s at the head end of most trains. when I was 3 yrs old to about 10 (1993-New Millenium) I remember that the railroads were really going through that transition. What I really miss are Norfolk Southern's Long-hood forward years. My dad says he used to see NS SD45's coming at him long-hood forward like that. sounds pretty impressive to me! great video!
What in the world kind of GE is unit # 3005 @ +5:58 mins? Great video! Along with the standard cabs of the day I also miss the mixed locomotive consists, today it's same ol' - same ol', I don't even turn my head to look anymore.
To those who complain that CSX doesn't care about history, they do. Just you don't see it out on the road. CSX has granted a number of tourist railroads the right to paint their locos in former paint jobs. They could say no as the paint jobs are still protected property. I would like to see a heritage set though. And that would have to include all the ones they picked up as part of getting Conrail.
I concur! I would like to see CSX launch a heritage series of locomotives including SCL, L&N, B&O, C&O, Clinchfield, SAL, ACL, NC&StL, WM, Monon, and NYC. Any others?
Only thing I have to say is that the NS has brought back heritage units and BNSF didn't change all the engines to the orange & black they left the ones that was red & silver alone the Green & white ones they left them alone. So why couldnt CSX do the same ???
I caught a SD50 still lettered for Seaboard System with both the nose and end of long hood painted yellow with CSX on it around early 2004 or 2005. A week later I saw the same unit patched out and lettered for HCLX.
@gordondavis4 Yeah, Union Pacific may have swallowed up a lot of classic roads, but they actually care about their heritage, an example is good ol never retired 1944 ALCO 4-8-4 FEF-3 844! Not to forget 3985 too though ;). Not to mention some units being saved unpatched (the 2 CNW GE's, DRGW SD40T-2 5371 ect).
This is awesome, so much variety is unheard of today. Also your standing in the middle of a engine terminal, another no go today but fine today. Sigh, i wish i was older than 2 when this was shot. Id have had a field day running around and roster shooting all that power.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing. Another thing that you might notice before the wide cabs was that most of the power was 4 axle GP's and B units. It was rare to see an SD unit back then.
Back in 94 when I was in the Navy I had a lot of fun railfanning CSX in Jacksonville, and man, they had all kinds of units in all kinds of paint schemes, made for fun days to railfan!
some of these were sent out, re-built, and then sold to short lines or to over-seas rail lines. some of these still live on; you can now see them world-wide ...!
My favorite older locomotive is a sd40-2. I use one everyday, and they are still work horses after all of these years. My favorite newer one is a cw60ac.
@CPWindsorsub Oh, i hear you. remember over the years seeing pictures of ALCO's still running on the mains in Canada and feeling jealous wishing railroads down this way still ran them. Also recall magazines and such razzing CSX back then for their "circus train" lashups. I miss those days. Including the sights and sounds of those units on throttle up. Smoky, noisy, goodness. ;-) Understand on the GE's, including standard cabs NS has roughly 1,200 D9's. *overkill*
I can assure you that I'm one of the few who get disgusted over all the widecab GE junk on the rails today. I've seen too much "good stuff" over the years to be wowed by today's motive power fleets! Thanks for the memories!!!
The only CSX U30C I ever saw was in a dead line in Waycross, Georgia. It was painted in the stealth paint scheme. I wish I had started shooting in 1987 but I didn't get into it till about 1991.
+To Love Sophia If you ever saw one in real life, you would hope to never see another one. The saying is " so ugly only a mother would love it". Well those stretched even that saying. They also didn't like the track down here too well either. They only stayed a few months and then were gone.
Thats cool but where i live we have two C30-7's, one B30-7 and we had a U23B but it went to get scrapped): We do however have some EMD power but they are not my favorite. Keep in mind im talking local yard work.
I don't think so!! Standard cabs are safer because if the engine catches on fire, you can exit faster cause there are two doors right in front of you!!!
You do realize there is a door on the front of a wide cab and only the conductor side door is a door on a standard cab. The engineer side is not a door.
Wide cabs are excellent for short trips too. all of the writing we have to do for different mandatory directives , signals, and tests they give us makes me love all wide cabs except, the SD60M vibration box. You leave your paperwork on the desk and go line a switch and the engineer moves the train about 1 car length. You get back in the cab of the locomotive your paperwork is all over the floor. Your pen dropped into something unidentifiable and nasty from about 100 mainline trips ago. Spartan cabs in switching are sometimes ok. It still can be cramped. During rainy days its just horrible.
Very True Sarah I myself have taken photos of trains since I was a boy. I'm 52 now and began to really foam for trains and railroading in general back in August 2013 after some major medical problems and the need to stay closer to home. Just last night a friend of mine called me about some engines that were on the move heading through Florida back home to New Orleans. And my Friend C.D. is a real Foamer Level 6 ask if we could go and catch the engines. We left at 7:30pm and arrived back home at 10:30pm. A True Foamer To The End! :)
@chris64346 I was watching that engine also. The only railroad i can think of is the Katy (MKT = Missouri, Kansas, & Texas). If someone can confirm this, thanks ahead of time.
Love it. We would always watch the trains go through Covington KY between 26th St and the river....especially at 18th Street in the late 80's through 94/95 or so. I had a friend who lived there at the time. Did we trespass ? Yes we did, but the RR personal did not seem to mind and we got to know a few people back then....especially at KC Tower.
Lot of old classic power there. I remember all of those paint schemes too. I work with KCS and we still have EMD standard cabs in service, all of our long haul locomotives are modern wide cab EMD or GE units
@CN413Fox That's a B30-7. Like you said CN413Fox, those are the best days of CSX because of the oddball CSX locomotives, most locomotives being standard cabs, and because of the classic GE Dash 7's and U boats. Long live the 90's!!!!!!!!!!
I miss the 90s, best decade for railroading.
The unit that you see at 4:22 is a BQ23-7,only 10 of these were ever built.THe cabs were constructed so that the whole crew would ride up front and they would not be using cabooses.The units at 5:21 and 7:15 are GP-35 slugs.Prime movers removed ,but traction motors retained from the extra traction when needed.
@cheechchongfan97 I think thats a U boat wide cab. The design was originally intended to replace the need for a caboose when it was pushing, and had room for 5 crew members in the cab.
I miss those days. I was only 10 years old at the time, but those young times of being a railfan are the most rememberable ones I have.
The Green jeeps were built for the Reading RR. They went to the Delaware & Hudson then Guilford Trans (the grey engine with orange stripe). CSX bought them in '91. Most if not all are working in FL now.
90s were the days the best
that was quite a graceful dismount at 3:21, he made it look much easier than it really is
This is why i like the line near my house Its a CSX Branch lline off of Brunswick and theres no wide cabs due to several wooden trestles. I saw a GP39 (1 out of 5) this week!
Outstanding blast from the past!
Love that GP-30 in CSX paint. It doesn't seem that overly long ago that it was brand new, and the old units were GP-7's and GP-9's!
The last GP30 was built in 1963, which is nearly 60 years ago.
I kinda like the look of yesteryear. The Uboats, gps, Sd, as well as the designs and sounds. It really gave trains a personality that the public loved. Each engine had its own character which spoked directly to the kid at heart. I kinda missed them greatly. I stand track side not to see the usual, but the unusual. Like today, I caught unexpected coal drag that comes once a month on different RR. Im looking forward to seening the circuse train. Great Video.
I miss early CSX. I was born in 1991 and witnessed few of these early locomoitves in the early 90's, -_-
6845 and 4233 are gone, but 4316 and 4309 are still around in Florida. Maybe the 4233 is a slug? Checked the 3108, gone, however 2576 still here........Interesting engine 5526 still marked C&O here or not, cannot tell..........wow, 4316 ex-MKT! Neat! Incredible video, love every minute. I lived this from 1980 to 1990 and model same today.
All I can say is bring your earplugs when riding in those standard cabs, they are loud. Wide cabs are nice just for the fact that they are quieter and you don't have to listen to that air purge every time move the auto/ind. or even the bell. I like the GP/SD for the nostalgic factor and when I get a 40 Snoot, I'm happy on the inside.
That was a great walk down memory lane. Saw CSXT 4316 not long ago... In YN3 pain, of course. Excellent compilation. Five stars, Fav'd & Shared.
Nice Family Lines U-Boat with the EMD trucks
There were plenty of widecabs in use by May of 1992. For example, the SD60M was in production as early as 1989.
Nice! Miss those days, GP30's weren't all slugs, U-Boats chugging around, Chessie everywhere and you were allowed to dismount moving equipment. Like the ex-RDG unit too!
So much better than now. Lots of variety back then. Thanks for uploading this one.
Long Live Chessie. I'd take these days over modern day any day. Wish I grew up back then. I love them B30-7 units.
I also remember CSX Mail 1 and 2 behind my grandpap's house in orange park, florida when he was still a dispatcher for CSX. i have seen alot of trains run through there.
Actually there is one wide cab! a GE BQ23-7 ! A pre curser to the wide cab that was built by the Family Lines to acomodate a 5 man crew!
Wow... that's a great look back.
Where was this video taken at? I do not see any landmarks I am famalier unless this is Atlanta GA. What a great collection of now, rare diesels:UBoats (Man hole covers), GP30s and others.......love this and thank you for posting.
the csx engine 4233 looks so cool
Seeing the blue and gray csx locomotive takes me back to my youth. You can't beat the old EMDs I always liked the GP40-2s.
A BQ23-7, basically a B23 with a bigger cab for the crew since they weren't using cabooses much anymore. Only 10 were built, all for SCL/LN, which CSX inheirited. Last time I saw one it was in Southern Indiana, and the windows were plated over and they used it as a "B" unit. (no cab controls, just a power unit)
Excellent video. Were you an employee or a railfan and they let you on to the property to film?. So cool seeing classic Spartan Cab EMDs and pug nosed GE U-Boats with the classic 4-cycle "Chug". SCL was, generally, railfan friendly back in the late 70s and fans would come to the yards in Florida to photograph or film as long as they didn't weren't careless. Sad that those days are gone.
I like wide cabs but I have to admit, I miss seeing normal SD40(-2)'s at the head end of most trains. when I was 3 yrs old to about 10 (1993-New Millenium) I remember that the railroads were really going through that transition. What I really miss are Norfolk Southern's Long-hood forward years. My dad says he used to see NS SD45's coming at him long-hood forward like that. sounds pretty impressive to me! great video!
This is the way it should still be... Screw wide cabs.. These are the locomotives that helped build this country..
Awesome video. 5***** and favorite.
Ha that modern SD60 at 9:03 must feel so out of place! Outstanding power, love the GP30 and the BQ23-7. 5*.
What in the world kind of GE is unit # 3005 @ +5:58 mins?
Great video! Along with the standard cabs of the day I also miss the mixed locomotive consists, today it's same ol' - same ol', I don't even turn my head to look anymore.
Wyoming MI, CSX diesel house. Looking west from the access road.
I'm one of those young people.. and not for a single day of my life has a wide cab appealed to me.
Damn trucks and highways!
5;58 That 3005 BQ23-7 is a WIDE CAB! Wish I could see what they looked like inside. I know they are long gone.
Love the old U boats and EMD's. Those were classic engines and yes, easier to work on and keep running. Thanks for the video.
I have a ho scale u boat
@nikosjk1 I agree with ya, I was two years old then too! I got started in railfanning in late 1998, so i barely got to enjoy Conrail.
HEY! the Q23-7 is a wide cab haha, idk what it is about them, guess its how odd they look might be why i like them
To those who complain that CSX doesn't care about history, they do. Just you don't see it out on the road. CSX has granted a number of tourist railroads the right to paint their locos in former paint jobs. They could say no as the paint jobs are still protected property.
I would like to see a heritage set though. And that would have to include all the ones they picked up as part of getting Conrail.
I concur! I would like to see CSX launch a heritage series of locomotives including SCL, L&N, B&O, C&O, Clinchfield, SAL, ACL, NC&StL, WM, Monon, and NYC. Any others?
D Smith Chessie?
RF&P
Chessie most of all!
Only thing I have to say is that the NS has brought back heritage units and BNSF didn't change all the engines to the orange & black they left the ones that was red & silver alone the Green & white ones they left them alone. So why couldnt CSX do the same ???
@USMatman100 you're welcome - check out some info on them on Wikipedia, seems it was the beginning of the end for the caboose on drag-freights...
I caught a SD50 still lettered for Seaboard System with both the nose and end of long hood painted yellow with CSX on it around early 2004 or 2005. A week later I saw the same unit patched out and lettered for HCLX.
@gordondavis4 Yeah, Union Pacific may have swallowed up a lot of classic roads, but they actually care about their heritage, an example is good ol never retired 1944 ALCO 4-8-4 FEF-3 844! Not to forget 3985 too though ;). Not to mention some units being saved unpatched (the 2 CNW GE's, DRGW SD40T-2 5371 ect).
This is awesome, so much variety is unheard of today. Also your standing in the middle of a engine terminal, another no go today but fine today. Sigh, i wish i was older than 2 when this was shot. Id have had a field day running around and roster shooting all that power.
that look ten times the fun then today trains!!
Great stuff, thanks for sharing. Another thing that you might notice before the wide cabs was that most of the power was 4 axle GP's and B units. It was rare to see an SD unit back then.
I wish KCS had heritage locomotives too. I miss the green and orange of the Texas Mexican Railway.
Back in 94 when I was in the Navy I had a lot of fun railfanning CSX in Jacksonville, and man, they had all kinds of units in all kinds of paint schemes, made for fun days to railfan!
I wounder how rare it would be today, as of 3/27/11, to see a CSX "U-Boat" in YN2 form?
The 1990's were the days!
I'd like to see CSX do a heritage campaign. Norfolk Southern is doing one.
Thumbs up 4 the Seaboard System geep!
hey hello from houston great videos
Its a BQ23-7. It is neat.
some of these were sent out, re-built, and then sold to short lines or to over-seas rail lines. some of these still live on; you can now see them world-wide ...!
My favorite older locomotive is a sd40-2. I use one everyday, and they are still work horses after all of these years. My favorite newer one is a cw60ac.
I used to see those original B&O geeps in Garrett a lot.
@CPWindsorsub Oh, i hear you. remember over the years seeing pictures of ALCO's still running on the mains in Canada and feeling jealous wishing railroads down this way still ran them. Also recall magazines and such razzing CSX back then for their "circus train" lashups. I miss those days. Including the sights and sounds of those units on throttle up. Smoky, noisy, goodness. ;-) Understand on the GE's, including standard cabs NS has roughly 1,200 D9's. *overkill*
The good ol days....
We called those Uboats Maytags since they sounded an unbalanced washer on the spin cycle.
I'm 19 and prefer standard cabs and older EMD and GE power! Nice video
I can assure you that I'm one of the few who get disgusted over all the widecab GE junk on the rails today. I've seen too much "good stuff" over the years to be wowed by today's motive power fleets! Thanks for the memories!!!
0:25 True fact -- diesel locomotives were still steam-powered in the 1990s!
Nice
it's an experimental engine that the family lines did, it's a BQ23-7
soo much better than today
The only CSX U30C I ever saw was in a dead line in Waycross, Georgia. It was painted in the stealth paint scheme. I wish I had started shooting in 1987 but I didn't get into it till about 1991.
Super sad seeing all those locos that could still be used unless they were in very low grade condition
Interesting seeing a CSX GP30 without being a SLUG!
@CSX2665 Since it had 2-axle trucks, it'd be like a GP60M
Cool to see these old fallen flag units 🚂
im 11 and i think old units are cool one of my faves is the SD40t2
the 1 person who disliked this video does not know the meaning of art.
I agree, just another reason why I model the 1980's
that's cool. never saw a BQ23-7 before
+To Love Sophia If you ever saw one in real life, you would hope to never see another one. The saying is " so ugly only a mother would love it". Well those stretched even that saying. They also didn't like the track down here too well either. They only stayed a few months and then were gone.
Trust me us younger people dont think seeing wide cab after wide cab is awsome. We'd much rather see this stuff.
Thats cool but where i live we have two C30-7's, one B30-7 and we had a U23B but it went to get scrapped): We do however have some EMD power but they are not my favorite. Keep in mind im talking local yard work.
Very cool video
Wide cabs sucks now
hell yea wide cabs r awesome but i wish csx still had the old stealth scheme rather than shitty YN3,the stealth units were the best of csx
Oh my god i wish i was abel to c this! really the only widecabs i like are 60M's and CW60AC's
@CPWindsorsub Cool on that last part. Did you do it or is it brass? Sweet either way. :-)
Wide cabs are much more comfortable for distance though. I think it's good to have them on the mainline and standard cabs switching.
And safer.
I don't think so!! Standard cabs are safer because if the engine catches on fire, you can exit faster cause there are two doors right in front of you!!!
You do realize there is a door on the front of a wide cab and only the conductor side door is a door on a standard cab. The engineer side is not a door.
Union Pacific Fan I never understood what they did that for..
Wide cabs are excellent for short trips too. all of the writing we have to do for different mandatory directives , signals, and tests they give us makes me love all wide cabs except, the SD60M vibration box. You leave your paperwork on the desk and go line a switch and the engineer moves the train about 1 car length. You get back in the cab of the locomotive your paperwork is all over the floor. Your pen dropped into something unidentifiable and nasty from about 100 mainline trips ago. Spartan cabs in switching are sometimes ok. It still can be cramped. During rainy days its just horrible.
Love any engine that is not a wide cab!
In my opinion, the best days of CSX ever. Also, what type of GE loco is Chessie C&O 5526? It's at 2:29
Beautiful video,oh how i miss those days!! such variety.
CSX needs to make "Throwback" units
@USMatman100 It's a GE BQ23-7.
Why has six people voted this video down?
Very True Sarah I myself have taken photos of trains since I was a boy. I'm 52 now and began to really foam for trains and railroading in general back in August 2013 after some major medical problems and the need to stay closer to home. Just last night a friend of mine called me about some engines that were on the move heading through Florida back home to New Orleans. And my Friend C.D. is a real Foamer Level 6 ask if we could go and catch the engines. We left at 7:30pm and arrived back home at 10:30pm. A True Foamer To The End! :)
@chris64346 I was watching that engine also. The only railroad i can think of is the Katy (MKT = Missouri, Kansas, & Texas). If someone can confirm this, thanks ahead of time.
I don't care for wide cabs and I am 16! I like that GP30
Love it. We would always watch the trains go through Covington KY between 26th St and the river....especially at 18th Street in the late 80's through 94/95 or so. I had a friend who lived there at the time. Did we trespass ? Yes we did, but the RR personal did not seem to mind and we got to know a few people back then....especially at KC Tower.
Wish I had been photographing/filming trains back then. So much more interesting then the wide cabs.
Every so often I see locomotives like these in switching and local freight operations. Great video.
I remember these times well. All the old paint schemes!
Lot of old classic power there. I remember all of those paint schemes too. I work with KCS and we still have EMD standard cabs in service, all of our long haul locomotives are modern wide cab EMD or GE units
@mike92586 3005 is a BQ23-7
i may have been three at the time this was filmed but i love when you show me what i was too young to appriciate
@CN413Fox Yep. I think so.
No ditchlights too.
@mike92586 That woud have to be a BN railroad sd40-2