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Ep. 71-CSX Q335 -08 with GEVOs Fight Fox Hill in Grand Rapids, MI

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Uploaded by on Dec 25, 2011

CSX Mixed freight Q335-08 hauls 126 cars up te fairly steep Fox hill. The siding is also Called Fox Siding. This is the hill out of the Thornapple River valley, cresting behind the Gerald R Ford international Airport, before winding its way downhill into Grand Rapids, again almost to river level with the Grand River, of which the Thornapple river s a tributary.
The Second Location is from the Embankment of the old Interurban Line, near Godfrey St and the East End of Wyoming Yard.
The Hmm you hear at the hill is coming from the rails, as the Railgrinder past through about 2 weeks ago
Locomotive Power:
CSX ES44DC* #5393 (4400hp)
CSX ES44DC* #5356 (4400hp)
Total power: 8800 Horsepower, equivilent to 24 5-liter V8 Ford F150 Pickup Trucks
Filmed in Cascade Twp (Grand Rapids), MI
*CSX Downgraded at ES44DCs to 4000 HP, now are ES40DCs
This is to save fuel as well as Wear. CSX hasn't downgraded ES44ACs

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