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Your shot is sweet also.
Who are you talking to, me or hert?
If you’re talking about me, the SP Bilevels are on the DLS, just search up Pullman and scroll along. They’re DES models with btvfd textures.
September 1986. The Sleeping Kitten in its final phase.
Here are a few screens showing a train in the final era of the Chessie System. By now its southern counterpart had renamed itself CSX Transportation and it was underway with renumbering, repainting, and re-stenciling former SBD equipment. The C&O and B&O remain the only two of the Chessie roads still operating creating a year long transitional period where the three reporting marks were used until August 29, 1987. Locomotives from this point on Chessie would slowly receive their new CSX numbers yet keep their B&O/C&O/WM reporting marks. On September 8th, the westbound "Chicagoan" manifest/empty auto parts from Baltimore traverses the Sandpatch Grade on the mainline to Chicago. On the point is a GP40-2 and a C&O SD50 with 6,318 feet of train.
Exiting the west end of Cumberland Yard the train passes by the CPLs.
The train snakes through the Cumberland Narrows. A 50' Pullman PS-1 belonging to the Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern is visible behind 8557.
The train picked up the helper engines at Hyndman, a pair of sequentially numbered B&O SD40-2s. They shove the train up to Sandpatch.
C&O 192308 is in the short lived CSX Transportation scheme. Beginning from April 1986 a small number of freight cars from the C&O and SBD were painted into this scheme.
SOU 42907 belongs to the first order of Greenville 86' auto boxes, 42862-42945 built in October 1968.
Caboose usage was becoming increasingly rare by this point in the mid-1980s having been rendered obsolete by EOT devices. Despite this, B&O 903847 brings up the end of the train behind a FEC bi-level after the helpers were cut off at Sandpatch. The CNW bi-level ahead of it is one of a few purchased from the RF&P.
A shot of the train west of Casselman, Pennsylvania.
Here are a few screens showing a train in the final era of the Chessie System. By now its southern counterpart had renamed itself CSX Transportation and it was underway with renumbering, repainting, and re-stenciling former SBD equipment. The C&O and B&O remain the only two of the Chessie roads still operating creating a year long transitional period where the three reporting marks were used until August 29, 1987. Locomotives from this point on Chessie would slowly receive their new CSX numbers yet keep their B&O/C&O/WM reporting marks. On September 8th, the westbound "Chicagoan" manifest/empty auto parts from Baltimore traverses the Sandpatch Grade on the mainline to Chicago. On the point is a GP40-2 and a C&O SD50 with 6,318 feet of train.
Exiting the west end of Cumberland Yard the train passes by the CPLs.
The train snakes through the Cumberland Narrows. A 50' Pullman PS-1 belonging to the Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern is visible behind 8557.
The train picked up the helper engines at Hyndman, a pair of sequentially numbered B&O SD40-2s. They shove the train up to Sandpatch.
C&O 192308 is in the short lived CSX Transportation scheme. Beginning from April 1986 a small number of freight cars from the C&O and SBD were painted into this scheme.
SOU 42907 belongs to the first order of Greenville 86' auto boxes, 42862-42945 built in October 1968.
Caboose usage was becoming increasingly rare by this point in the mid-1980s having been rendered obsolete by EOT devices. Despite this, B&O 903847 brings up the end of the train behind a FEC bi-level after the helpers were cut off at Sandpatch. The CNW bi-level ahead of it is one of a few purchased from the RF&P.
A shot of the train west of Casselman, Pennsylvania.
