5:03 was exactly two days before my first birthday!! Feeling a lot of nostalgia here. Im glad i got a chance to see the last of these locomotives in their original paint schemes before they were gone forever
:30,,,,former Clinchfield SD45-2. Those things were AWESOME in their black/yellow number boards. I saw most of them back when. Anything CRR was awesome!
What an incredible time for railfanning the CSX system, so much neat power and lots of cool colors. Oh how I long for the B&O, C&O, and L&N. These were glory days of railfanning, days that I never got to see. Railfanning CSX nowadays is little more than a GEVO parade, but if your lucky you may catch an AC44, SD40, or SD70MAC. But thankfully, history is perfectly preserved in this film! Thank you for this!
Thunderturbine88 originally CSX was gonna be called “CSM” for Chessie Seaboard Merger. This name was taken however, so they just replaced the M with an X to I guess still symbolize that it was a merger.
2:24 Thank you for finding that and including it! L&N is hard to find. One of the major railroads of the Eastern US, and a co-dominant competitor with Southern in the South. Yet L&N has never had the media footprint as Southern, SCL, and the Northern roads. Good to see colors of the Old Reliable. Thanks for getting films of all these fallen flags.!
Seaboard! Now that was a real railroad! Friendly train crews that would wave to folks and toss snacks and drinks down for you as they went by, and that was when they still had cabooses, and the brakeman. I'd always wave at them and they'd wave back. I ran my first locomotive from the guidance of a Seaboard engineer. CSX could only dream of aspiring to be as good a RR as Chessie, & Seaboard were, even if they are merged now, it's just not the same...
Conrail was a government creation meant to salvage the collateral damage from Penn Central's failure. Eventually it was split between Norfolk Southern and CSX. It still kinda exists today, but in a much smaller forms.
shawn calay wrong that is before The seaboard system merger clinchfield was still a separate entity under family lines. There were five SD40-2's with CRR lettering on their cabs in family lines paint
@@northgacubthey were ordered by the new family lines and not clinchfield….my mother worked sales for EMD in Lagrange during 1972 to 1983.....CRR are the reporting marks and the trustee who owned them or the owned the lease. with that said CRR shop forces maintained them, and they were assigned to the CRR division
The original CSX blue and grey looked good
5:03 was exactly two days before my first birthday!! Feeling a lot of nostalgia here. Im glad i got a chance to see the last of these locomotives in their original paint schemes before they were gone forever
Never was a fan of CSX nor their predecessor roads... But this video totally changed that... Outstanding 💯
:30,,,,former Clinchfield SD45-2.
Those things were AWESOME in their black/yellow number boards.
I saw most of them back when.
Anything CRR was awesome!
I do miss the Seaboard, the L&N, the Georgia, the Chessie, the Southern, the N&W, etc.
What an incredible time for railfanning the CSX system, so much neat power and lots of cool colors. Oh how I long for the B&O, C&O, and L&N. These were glory days of railfanning, days that I never got to see. Railfanning CSX nowadays is little more than a GEVO parade, but if your lucky you may catch an AC44, SD40, or SD70MAC. But thankfully, history is perfectly preserved in this film! Thank you for this!
You missed a treat!
Nice video! Love the fallen flag paint schemes and the CSX blue and gray and the YN2 paint schemes!
Those early engines that’s the one I like👍👍
OK, so that's what happened to Seaboard System. They got absorbed into CSX. I was always curious.
The S in CSX stands for Seaboard. The C stands for Chessie.
@@dsmith9964 OK yep that makes sense. Thanks for that. Got any idea where they pulled the X from?
@@thunderturbine8860 I think the Wikipedia article says that the X just tacked on at the end for no good reason.
Thunderturbine88 originally CSX was gonna be called “CSM” for Chessie Seaboard Merger. This name was taken however, so they just replaced the M with an X to I guess still symbolize that it was a merger.
@@danieldowling7421 That's good to know!
2:24 Thank you for finding that and including it! L&N is hard to find. One of the major railroads of the Eastern US, and a co-dominant competitor with Southern in the South. Yet L&N has never had the media footprint as Southern, SCL, and the Northern roads. Good to see colors of the Old Reliable. Thanks for getting films of all these fallen flags.!
CSX needs some heritage schemes baaaaad
What all do you think of their new heritage units? I'm just curious and want some opinions
You really did a good job. Great train video. Joe
Love Those GP40's In CSX Blue And Gray Trailing And Now In Blue And Yellow Paint With New [CSX] Boxcar Logo.
Seaboard! Now that was a real railroad! Friendly train crews that would wave to folks and toss snacks and drinks down for you as they went by, and that was when they still had cabooses, and the brakeman. I'd always wave at them and they'd wave back. I ran my first locomotive from the guidance of a Seaboard engineer. CSX could only dream of aspiring to be as good a RR as Chessie, & Seaboard were, even if they are merged now, it's just not the same...
Agreed. The culture is completely different than before. Which sucks to say the least.
csx has become largely miserable it is a large disgrace to this time frame.
@@CSX2665 lol true
The mating worms were everywhere. ;-) Including on my book of rules.
I wonder how many remember the green and cream SCL locos?
2:53, that's actually a SD45-2!
Is conrail a merger of csx?
Conrail was a government creation meant to salvage the collateral damage from Penn Central's failure. Eventually it was split between Norfolk Southern and CSX. It still kinda exists today, but in a much smaller forms.
um 8339 is a SD40 NOT a SD40-2! clinchfield never had SD40-2s
Right you are... but we're not redoing the show. LOL
CRR did have SD40-2’s delivered in Family Lines paint in the 8100 series
@@northgacubthat's after the merger
shawn calay wrong that is before The seaboard system merger clinchfield was still a separate entity under family lines. There were five SD40-2's with CRR lettering on their cabs in family lines paint
@@northgacubthey were ordered by the new family lines and not clinchfield….my mother worked sales for EMD in Lagrange during 1972 to 1983.....CRR are the reporting marks and the trustee who owned them or the owned the lease. with that said CRR shop forces maintained them, and they were assigned to the CRR division
so long Seaboard and L N 😢😢😢😢😢
Atlantic Coast Line started it all...
+TheThomasSproduction No, Seaboard Airline RR started it, :-D
+gravelydon no acl, sal was a copycat lol
Actually, it was the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad that began what would become CSX Transportation over 150 years later.
@@hakeemsd70m Actually, the B&O is the oldest 'ancestor' in the CSX system. The C&O is the nominal corporate survivor, though.
Chessie was nothing compared to the Western Maryland.
Line to St.Louis is gone!