CSX Transportation CSXT 5448 GE ES44DC is leaving Howell yard with 647 as Q501 is a few tracks over in Evansville, Indiana on January 23, 2022.
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CSXT 5406 GE ES44DC
CSX Transportation CSXT 5406 GE ES44DC leading a Southbound freight train Q503, stopped for a red single at the south end of King siding in Ft Branch, Indiana on February 20, 2021.
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CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC
CSX Transportation CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC Southbound leading W809 a Military train going to New Orleans, Louisiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision at Baseline Road in Evansville, Indiana on February 20, 2021.
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CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC
CSX Transportation CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC Southbound leading W809 a Military train going to New Orleans, Louisiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision at King in Princeton, Indiana on February 20, 2021.
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CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC
CSX Transportation CSXT 5473 GE ES44DC Southbound leading W809 a Military train going to New Orleans, Louisiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision in Princeton, Indiana on February 20, 2021.
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BNSF 7859 GE ES44DC
Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNSF 7859 GE ES44DC leading a grain train on the CN Centralia subdivision passing under the old Illinois Central coaling tower in Reevesville, Illinois on January 2, 2021.
Coaling towers were constructed of wood, steel-reinforced concrete, or steel. In almost all cases coaling stations used a gravity-fed method, with one or more large storage bunkers for the coal elevated on columns above the railroad tracks, from which the coal could be released to slide down a chute into the waiting steam locomotive’s coal storage area. The method of lifting the bulk coal into the storage bin varied. The coal usually was dropped from a hopper car into a pit below tracks adjacent to the tower. From the pit a conveyor-type system used a chain of motor-driven buckets to raise the coal to the top of the tower where it would be dumped into the storage bin; a skip-hoist system lifted a single large bin for the same purpose. Some facilities lifted entire railway coal trucks or wagons. Sanding pipes were often mounted on coaling towers to allow simultaneous replenishment of a locomotive’s sandbox.
As railroads transitioned from the use of steam locomotives to the use of diesel locomotives in the 1950s the need for coaling towers ended. Many reinforced concrete towers remain in place if they do not interfere with operations due to the high cost of demolition incurred with these massive structures. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NS 7583 GE ES44DC
Norfolk Southern, NS 7583 GE ES44DC passing by Consolidated Grain and Barge Lyles Station elevator in Princeton, Indiana on October 1, 2020
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CN 2325 GE ES44DC
Canadian National, CN 2325 GE ES44DC leading K863-17 a potash train through Patoka, Indiana on October 18, 2020
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CSXT 5212 GE ES44DC
On September 6, 2020 the CSX Transportation crew on CSXT 5212 a GE ES44DC leading A.B. Brown coal train formerly known as the SIGECO train through Princeton, Indiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision to Evansville where they will get on the Evansville Western Railway to Mt. Vernon, Indiana.
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CSXT 5437 GE ES44DC
CSX Transportation, CSXT 5437 GE ES44DC leading an all Military train W895 Northbound at St. James curve on the CE&D Subdivision in Haubstadt, Indiana on September 6, 2020.