Late this morning I went to Burnside and Tateville, and made the rounds. Nothing there. I went back to Burnside and waited. I asked somebody in the office about what was coming, and he said a couple were coming from both directions. I waited. After a while, one came in from the south and stopped. That train has four engines, and the fourth is a GP60. That was a big surprise. The third is an SD60E. That train pulled out at around 12:30 pm, heading north. There is a lot of train stoppage going on north of Somerset. I saw some track work or some kind of work going on in the Science Hill area, and saw a track checking piece of equipment out on a track in that area. The Science Hill crossing was blocked to road traffic; work going on there.
NS-7128 GP60
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h344/Redford91/Railroad%20Photos/Norfolk%20Southern/Burnside/2014-08-19/100_6880---NS-7128--GP60---750px.jpg)
NS-7128 GP60 NS-6953 SD60E
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h344/Redford91/Railroad%20Photos/Norfolk%20Southern/Burnside/2014-08-19/100_6887---NS-7128--GP60---NS6953--SD60E--750px.jpg)
After a while, another train came in from the south and stopped for a crew change. This one is led by an SD70. I made several photos then left. When I got near Science Hill, I saw a train parked, and switched to the road alongside the tracks. That train looked like the one led by the SD70. I wasn't sure, but believe it was. Yesterday, near Waynesburg and Eubank, trains heading north were parking for a while--not all together. I guess that was on account of track work north of here.
NS-2565 SD70
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h344/Redford91/Railroad%20Photos/Norfolk%20Southern/Burnside/2014-08-19/100_6906---NS-2565---SD70---770px.jpg)
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Tuesday night:
I just looked at a post by another member, Southern6482, and he said the SD60E model is "ultra rare" for the CNO&TP. I looked that up and found that there are 74 in service. I looked up the GP60, and found a number of 48. I don't know where NS usually runs these model engines, but I don't recall seeing either in my short time of train watching, on the CNO&TP. I don't get to the tracks a whole lot. I'm glad I got photos of two rare engines today. A GP anything has to be rare. An SD60 is rare, to me. Anyway, here is a full photo of the SD60E.
NS-6953 SD60E
(http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h344/Redford91/Railroad%20Photos/Norfolk%20Southern/Burnside/2014-08-19/100_6885---NS-6953---SD60E.jpg)
Lookin good... Looks like the "old days" with the GP60 and the SD70...
Thanks for takin the time to post these great pictures...
leroy
Nice catches! The GP60's have been a favorite of mine since NS took over CR and they were running their hot intermodals with 4 or 5 of them whining away at track speed!
PA Dan
GP 60 #7139 was the power in Buechel for like maybe a year, or longer. They used it to switch the intermodal yard. Spent a few nights driving a "utility vehicle" along side it.