CSX Cumberland Shops Action

Operations outside the CU shops.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• HLCX
• Train
• turntable
• sd50
• 8508
• railroad
• shops
• bnsf
• emd
• diesel
• cumberland

[HamiltonOhrailz]

8508 doesnt have a RS5T anymore. As of March 31st. I saw it, and it has a K5LA

[GP30RDMT]

Wouldn't surprise me, they've been swapping out and moving horns on everything.

[GP30RDMT]

You guessed it. It's always awesome to heard them load testing. -Jeffrey

[woodhall33]

man live on Long Island,NY and i never get to see any diesels like that

[GP30RDMT]

That's right. I have family on the Island and know what you're talking about. I really miss the old GP38-2s the LIRR used to use as their main diesel power. Now the New York & Atlantic freight railroad has a small fleet, but I remember when those old GP38-2s were running like crazy on the lsland.-Jeffrey

[Galaxy2517]

Shame to see the old B&O unit sitting there doing nothing...Remnants of a once brighter day....

[GP30RDMT]

Nothing sitting there was of B&O ancestry, everything there was exSeboard System and exConrail. Toss in FURX, HLCX, and BNSF, and you're left with no trace of B&O. -Jeffrey

[SP4449Warbaby]

@bennoach I guess the reason Chessie System took advantage of the L&N and SCL motive power after 1980 was because SCL (holding railroad of the L&N, Clinchfield, and the Georgia Group) was already making deals with the Chessie, and diversion of motive power was probably part of the deal, I might be wrong, so correct me if I am.

[bennoach]

I correct myself. The Wikipedia article on the Altoona Works cites two books counting at one time 16,000 employees on campus covering 218 acres with 125 buildings. South Louisville employed 4,200 at its peak on a 75 acre campus. Still, it was an impressive site when it was here.

[bennoach]

Thanks for posting GP30RDMT. In terms of railfanning, you're lucky to live where you do, to still have an active locomotive repair complex. L&N probably had the largest shops complex in the country, South Louisville, until it was demolished in 1993. Some of the jobs that were moved may have likely gone to Cumberland, though many went to Huntington, Raceland, and Corbin.

[bennoach]

It looked to me like it was the green and black one, #2337. I have only every seen a load test one other time. That was when I passed by the Huntington Shops a few years ago.

[bennoach]

I understand that Chessie took advantage of having power from L&N and SCL re-assigned to its system not long after CSX (the holding corp) was created in 1980. I understand that GEs then were great for pulling power through the mountains, which until CSX Chessie never really had. Granted, I didn't catch GE units here, but their presence may have accounted for diminishing B&O's EMD fleet. Correct me if I'm wrong. And thanks for posting this! Shop complexes are always fascinating.

[bennoach]

In Louisville, CSX uses at least one GP38-2, one or two GP30s, and two three GP40s for locals. We're lucky to still have something like that here.

[bennoach]

That thing is a turntable. It's a track that sits in a circular pit surrounded by tracks, each one leading into a stall in the locomotive roundhouse. There is a single track on the other side of the turntable that connects with the yard tracks. An engine enters from the yard track lead onto the turntable. The turntable then turns from the yard track to line up with the track lead into the particular stall. Go to Google Maps, search Cumberland, MD, and zoom into the yard, and you'll see.

[FlyBikes089]

Nice video!

[treos17]

holy crap i got my first train ride on that switcher back in 91'.