Model Train Journal

3/15 A slight detour- Ohio

Swanton, Ohio on the NS Chicago Line (New York Central)

Eastbound rail train with loads for the Swanton Staging Yard (under construction)



EB high-priority intermodal



Grand Rapids, OH

C&O 5109 on the Toledo Lake Erie & Western





Deshler, OH (CSX, ex-B&O)

Westbound CSX manifest



Fostoria, OH. Junction between CSX's B&O, C&O and NS's Nickel Plate

Eastbound NS high-priority intermodal on the Nickel Plate



Southbound autorack on the C&O crossing the NS



CSX Q150 coming from North Baltimore, en route to Detroit



Wesbound NS autorack



Eastbound CSX manifest passing a westbound intermodal, with a GP40-2 leading



An EB intermodal follows shortly after



Westbound NS manifest with C40-9 and a KCS SD70M



Eastbound CSX Q003. This is the highest priority train on this CSX line



Eastbound CSX junk freight



Once the CSX cleared the diamond, this eastbound NS autorack came through



EB CSX intermodal



CSX Q151 rounding the wye from the C&O to the B&O, from Detroit



WB CSX coal train



Westbound CSX manifest with a KCS SD70ACe leader



Eastbound CSX manifest outside of North Baltimore




I consider this my annual CSX photo trip, I'm glad to not have to shot them en masse for a while now. Boooooooooring

Nice photo's. Thanks for sharing

Nice! I haven't been railfanning in years.

I did get stopped the other day by a CSX train coming into Portsmouth with a string of 3-bay hoppers of various designs.

CSX has changed the paint job over the years, I've always been fond of the blue/gray look:



I think I took this in St. Mary's or Folkston Georgia years ago when I was at the Kings Bay Submarine Base.

Nice shots Lucas

Thanks everyone!

Seaboard Air Line Fan wrote:
I think I took this in St. Mary's or Folkston Georgia years ago when I was at the Kings Bay Submarine Base.

What were you doing at Kings Bay?
That was not a Sub Base when I was going to Sub Bases....next one up was Charleston.

Dave,

I was verifying maintenance procedures on electronics equipment. Never went on or even saw a boat, went into a building.

When I pulled up in the rental car to the main gate they asked me to pull over. They had a drug dog "inspect" the car. I suddenly realized that, being a rental car, there could be anything in it and I would have been held responsible, didn't like that at all. Fortunately the dog found nothing of interest.

Thought I'd share this...a bit too much forward speed don't ya think:



This is the building I was in:



Found these here on Google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naval+Submarine+Base+Kings+Bay/@30.793599,-81.533412,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1shttps:%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F5%2F53%2FKingsbay.jpg%2F220px-Kingsbay.jpg!2e7!3e27!6s%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FmnKcvVecEkeykWToJP5FJko03yeVfHuJuFN_GJhWfk_8BkaOCpRsPkoxHEJWnVcDCyokuNI6xcYFyY74SgE8aeLc_l7PayphqbUGVGJHjKLV93qsgLFXmnonvDpoEuGr6fGTvBUMdsRpfKwoa2sUVsXGBDHJ0Q%3Dw203-h152!7i220!8i165!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e502b7217f9073:0x3f42c66eb3317248!8m2!3d30.783237!4d-81.557859!6m1!1e1

Except the 2nd photo showing a boat going down the (Elizabeth) river between Portsmouth and Norfolk (that's the Nauticus Naval Museum home of the battleship USS WISCONSIN in the background), I think all the others are Kings Bay.

I was a primary MK3 MOD6 Sperry SINS Tech. Followed by SPS6 radar, WLR6 ESM, LORAN A and C, SRN9 satellite navigation, IBM Selectrics...in fact, I still have an EIMB from that era, and all my IBM tools and manuals. Not much call for setting up and aligning a Selectric any more.
637 class SSN, Sea Horse, 669.
I could tell you stories about maneuvering watch and SPS6 radar.