CSX reroutes..

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Hey gang,

Here is some info that I got on the CSX hopper train that went west last 
week.

There are a couple CSX customers that get some coal periodically from 
some mines on N&W. So this was one of those trains, it came west on the 
C&O James river sub to Balcony Falls and took the connector to CSX 
Connection on the N&W at Glasgow. That all I know for sure, now what 
follows is figurtive. The connection faces North on the Valley Line 
(Roanoke Dist.) So the train probably, after, be taken over by a N&W 
crew, pulled north to clear the connection. Then it was probably ran 
around so it could head south, this then put the locomotive facing Long 
Hood forward. The train then continued on south to Roanoke where it went 
west from.

Nathan


Nathan Simmons
trainman51 at gmail.com
http://www.t-51.org
KI4MSK


On 3/21/2010 18:54, NW Mailing List wrote:

>

> Jimmy,

>

> There were four CSX units and believe they were long hood forward. 

> They were by Christiansburg at 8pm…. at about 40mph.

>

> Thanks for all your contributions. It is interesting to hear from 

> someone who is out there on the track.

>

> Ray

>

> *From:* nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org 

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> *Sent:* Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:57 PM

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> *Subject:* Re: CSX reroutes..

>

> Raymond,

>

> I curious if the train you saw had the same CSX units running long 

> hood forward. I passed this train at 65 Xover and it had maybe four 

> CSX units and all were facing long hood south ( west to you). Not the 

> best way to run GE units.

>

> Jimmy Lisle

>

>

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