CSX 7490 Leads CSX Q688, Mixed Freight, w/ "Crazy Eights" at South Tunnel Hill

7/24/2008
7:37 P.M. ET
CSX W&A Sub
South Tunnel Hill
Milepost CSX OWA 106.7

Tunnel Hill, GA

CSX Q688 is back on the move after stopping behind Q210 to let Q581 take the siding. The third engine on this train today is the famous CSX SD40-2 #8888 aka "Crazy Eights".

CSX 7490 C40-8
CSX 8565 SD50
CSX 8888 SD40-2

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• CSX
• Q688
• North
• Conrail
• Freight
• Tunnel
• Hill
• C40-8
• SD40-2
• Crazy
• Eights
• 8888
• SD50

[2124reading]

To bad the locomotive 8888 is no longerr around

[GARailfan]

@2124reading What happened to it?

[2124reading]

@GARailfan Sorry it was late and i was confused and i sayed that thinking it crashed but it got stoped.

[GARailfan]

@2124reading Oh ok

[trio3d]

@GARailfan Only the brakes were damaged in that incident.

[CorenDirebrew]

I caught A CSX manifest with 140 cats

[rahluvahi]

gosh!! the train is sooo long. seems like neverending train:D no wonder, it was difficult to stop back in 2001!

[TVRM610]

@CSX2665 That teacher doesn't like presentations, so all I could do is turn it in. I put all sorts of transitions, videos and other stuff on there, and she just had me print it off. So I did all that work for nothing, plus, her printer was black and white only, so there went my colorful slides. She said she didn't care about the videos. But she did let a girl present the history of popcorn by making the whole class some. I should have just used my 100 slide show on the history of steam travel.

[CSX2665]

@TVRM610 really? lol,wat did they say about it?,did they like it?

[CSX2665]

@GARailfan nope,sd40-2 #8392 latched on from the tail of 8888 and slowed it down using dynamic brakes from the #8392

[CSX2665]

kool ex-cr lash up,i like it!

[reesebwhitehead]

Holy crap!The actual crazy eights train!

[TVRM610]

I actually did my year end project for US History on the #8888 runaway incident

[TVRM610]

@GARailfan All accounts I know, the train was caught and #8888 pulled the chase crew over the crest of a downhill grade onto a curve into Kenton, and the engineer hit full dynamics again, slowing it to 12 mph, when Jon Hosfeld hopped aboard and shut it down.