C40-8 #7620 leads long CSX manifest

I caught this 4 hours after the Amtrak. Had a sick horn and the engineer was winkin' at me! His bell was pretty cool to. It sounded like the engine because it was dinging at a fast pace

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[capograced]

That is the shortest crossing arm I've ever seen in my life.

[furryfurball1221]

It's for the sidewalk

[furryfurball1221]

thanks it put out quite a show!

[fafnir242]

It's a K5H, but it sounds incredibly sick. I could hear it wailing.

[RRYankfan]

it is ether a K3H or a K5H

[NsRailfan083]

yea ur right CSXno601 he is just not pulling on it fully I've heard this lots of times on different units.

[CSXno601]

Sounds like a nicely tuned Nathan K5HR24. The engineer was just not pulling the valve all the way until he hit the crossing. That bell is a little fast on it. And to CP359 - only CSX 7489 to 7498 are former CR Dash 8 narrow nose units. 7500 to 7646 are pure CSX units.

[CP359]

That's a tired old C40-8 (pre-widecab days) with a desperately out of tune K5H horn, which was the standard horn for many of those locomotives. That thing has seen better days, but they were the first Dash 8s (on Conrail, anyway), and quite the locomotives at the time. Nice capture, Kelly!

Dave