5 Engine CSX Freight Train, Wood Chips & Mixed Freight, Waxhaw NC

The first 5 Engine CSX Freight Train I've caught, passing through Waxhaw, NC, November 14th 2009. This was the 2nd of 3 trains late that afternoon, following on the heels of the 1st heading for South Carolina. Hauling a load of wood chips among other mixed freight, this train was led by a veritable United Nations of locomotives. The first 2 were ES40DC 5439 and CW44AC 379. The next 3 I found listed on a December 1997 CSX engine roster: CW40-8 7876, GP40-2 6414 and Road Slug class 2312. A lot of Family Lines System wood chip cars, plus one of their covered hoppers near the end.
There were also 2 old Chessie System hoppers and the 1st Seaboard System marked car I've noticed, hopper #223019. A 2nd Seaboard System car followed hauling wood chips, #432319.

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[macdogq]

Love long trains.

[jmdhintz]

How dare you call that GP30 a road slug!

[csxketh1]

Really?! Why? It will interesting to see if CSX reclassifies these locomotives to

ES40DC's

[ChessieStorm]

Maybe not yet, but they will be. They're reducing the horse power on a lot of the 4400 horsepower locos to 4000.

[csxketh1]

By the way, CSX doesn't own any

ES40DC's.

The first unit was an ES44DC.

[csxketh1]

Lucky!!!! I should've gone. Of course a slug set came through. I've never seen one of those.