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oldrk
May 3rd, 2007, 05:44 PM
YouTube - Q373-23 with CSX 4617
Tim Loutzenhiser
May 3rd, 2007, 06:05 PM
Wow! That second unit still has C&O on the side!!! Didn't know any were still out there - too bad it has CSX on the end...
oldrk
May 3rd, 2007, 08:10 PM
The first time I heard about that engine I was speechless. You can do a google on C&O 4617 and find several pictures and articles. I am tempted to paint my C&O sd 40 in that color scheeme.
oldrk
May 3rd, 2007, 08:19 PM
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=50228

A good side and to the back view
Triplex
May 4th, 2007, 03:33 AM
I am tempted to paint my C&O sd 40-2 in that color scheeme. CSX 4617 is a pre-Dash-2 SD40. Flexicoil trucks, no sight glass.
CP&E 3207
May 4th, 2007, 04:45 AM
That unit has been in around and through Huntington so many times in the last 4 or 5 years I am surprised CSX hasn't put it through the paint shop. This unit wasnt even fitted with ditch lights until about a year ago. I believe there is less than a dozen..maybe even less than a half-dozen SD40's left on CSX...and most of the ones remaining are probably in storage somewhere.
oldrk
May 4th, 2007, 12:17 PM
CSX 4617 is a pre-Dash-2 SD40. Flexicoil trucks, no sight glass.

It was just a test to see if you were really watching. My post actually said sd40. OK, I went back and corredcted it.:angel:
berkmeister
May 4th, 2007, 04:43 PM
This will interest you fellow C&O fans that according to a postng on another website, CSX is planning to retire it's last SD-40's on the system before too long. Therefore, a petition drive has started to let CSX know that 4617 should be kept to donate to a museum, C&OHS or wherever to preserve not only this being a former C&O unit, but the fact that it's a SD-40. Get on railfan.net, look up indiana.railfan.net, get on the bull session page, scroll down to News, get on page 2 of that section to read the gentleman's posting. After he makes his statement, he shows how you can get on a petition website in order to post your support for this loco's preservation!!!! berkmeister
Tim Loutzenhiser
May 5th, 2007, 02:16 AM
Saving an SD-40!!! This sounds like a great effort - but knowing the way CSX tends to handle public relations and the corporate attitude towards preservation (it's like a "scorched earth" policy), I don't hold much hope for this effort. But I'm glad to try to help make it happen - if we can!