Norfolk Southern GP60 at Burnside

[Bill Richardson]

   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

NS-7128  GP60      NS-6953   SD60E

   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

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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

[leroy]

Lookin good... Looks like the "old days" with the GP60 and the SD70...
Thanks for takin the time to post these great pictures...

leroy

[dschlegel]

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

[Ed Fury]

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.