Love seeing the Chessie and Seaboard System auto parts boxcars! Those Guilford locomotives were built in 1969 ~ amazing they lasted this long with such permanently deferred maintenance. Love the prodigious puddle
MEC 351 & 353 passed the Covington KY live rail cam at 2336 Thursday 8/15/24 DIT on either CSX train M302 or M316 taking the last lap to Huntington WV shops.
Wow, Steve you must have been surprised to see some of the "newer" Guilford power heading to the scrap yard! I remember those old Sante Fe units they brought in from the desert for our front line power.
They kept a couple demolition cars right behind the power just in case the Guilford junk decided to act up they will make that trip. A couple cars back the bland white GFSX covered Hopper is actually hiding it's original yellow paint as that was a Milwaukee Road car. The ATW faded green flat with steel is ex BCIT OR BCOL. Without a doubt the old Auto Parts cars there's just something about them. The big place out East is a Ford Stamping Plant in Buffalo. The one NS line to Kansas City gets the most. Besides the CSX groups left here there are CR Quality still run by NS. Brown NS and a few NW. Brown rebuilt MP that have a UP Herald and are on age waivers. Also some Southerns a few of which have the old mottos some with just the name and a few reporting marks only. There are GTW & CNA in blue. Some have been through the shop and have reporting marks only in a grayish blue but the true Troopers are the ones in Illinois Central Gulf Orange and there is a super small number of gray ones with the Death Star mark. As you can sense there are whole fleets that have gotten wiped out. AA. ATSF. BN. CP. CNW. DTI the predecessor EL. NYC. PRR. MILW. SLSF. SP. UP. WP. Also if you remember these you are high seniority. The all white ones with Celotex in the corner that hauled rolls of insulation and brown ones with a small Amoco emblem and I remember this car in Chippewa Falls WI at a plant that made insulated styrofoam food containers. A few class one cars spent their last year's hauling compressed peat moss from Canada to plant Growers along the Eastern seaboard but that has probably ended. A Google search should bring up some pictures or videos of the latter
351 was one I saw a bit, really noticeable since it has more oil than paint, infact they had to put new MEC markings because you couldn't read them anymore! And in another Guilford classic, the number boards it once had were also peeling quite badly haha.
Yup looks like CSX is culling the Guilford and Pan Am clunkers. Surprised they lasted this long after the buy out. 50 plus year old GP40s with years of piecemeal maintenance
