Скачать или смотреть Awesome Day Trip on CSX Selkirk & Mohawk Subdivisions (5/4/2013)

The weather was absolutely perfect to be at the trackside! So here is another day trip at the usual spots on the CSX Selkirk & Mohawk subdivision with Pat (conrail4129), Mike (6000csx, and brought along his cousin as well). We started at Selkirk Yard and it was bustling with activity. There were many foreign power locomotives in the yard including BNSF, UP, MBTA (brought by Q437 the day earlier I think), all were waiting to depart the on any scheduled trains we've seen today. There were also a couple of road freights entering & leaving the yard as well.

Then we will follow the back roads to French's Hollow Bridge, where our first train K418 appeared with a St. Lawrence & Hudson (STLH) locomotive in front along with two Canadian Pacific locomotives (one has the Pac-man paint).

When we arrived in Amsterdam, NY, things started to get interesting. Q366, generally have only usual CSX locomotives, had a Canadian National SD75I, which was a rare sight. At Fonda, we saw the new oil train K040 with Norfolk Southern & BNSF locomotives, an all-BNSF Q380 plus a plethora of usual CSX & Amtrak trains.
Next we worked our way to a couple of spots between Fonda & Palatine Bridge, where we saw a meet between the eastbound Lakeshore Limited & the westbound Empire service, Q377 with the Union Pacific locomotives we saw earlier in the yard and a couple of Mid-America private cars, an all-BNSF S279 before returning to Fonda for a couple of hours of bustling train activity (We did made it to Lock #14 but it was closed to vehicular traffic). We ended the day wonderfully with a meet between Q112 & an all-BNSF Q393.

*Note: I'm really really NOT GOOD w/ train symbols. I try to get as many as I can through my scanner or asking other railfans around me (if any).*