Yesterday, on my commute home, I noticed a pair of Geeps sitting on a siding along the CSX Philly Subdivision, which, I thought, were actively switching out the Cargill Milling plant off Appleton Road near Elkton, Maryland. This Cargill plant produces food products and receives carloads of products by covered hoppers and tank cars. Anyhow, on the way home today, the motive power was still sitting there, so I stopped. I apologize for the poor cell phone pictures, but I wasn't planning on railfanning today, and the weather was miserable (rainy and cold).
Upon closer review, it turned out to be a GP40-2 and a road slug, both sporting the latest paint scheme:
CSX GP40-2 #6433 is former B&O #4295. I wonder how many times that I saw this very locomotive along this stretch of railroad in my youth when B&O (Chessie) and later CSX GP40-2s were once the premier power and all over the place. It's cool that this Geep is on its original home rails, as the Philly Sub is the former B&O line to Philadelphia:
CSX road slug #2325 is former CSX GP35 #4411 (nee C&O #3571):
Since the railfanning gods were shining down upon me (the sun wasn't), a CSX unit tank train heading south came through in the one or two minutes that I was trackside. On the point, running elephant style, were CSX AC60CW #663, Citicorp Railmark (CREX) ES44AC #1312, and what I think may be Norfolk Southern ES44AC #8032:
Looking west southwest, this shot will give you the perspective of the GP40-2/road slug on the Cargill siding off of the Philly Sub mainline:
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