Yup. Got back out here once again, and for the first time since June, was able to meet up with some of the usual gang members, in the case of today, Barry, Greg, John, Michael, and Dave. Enjoy.

Train #1: CSX V607 heads north by Collier Yard with a solo AC4400CW leader and some fallen flag hoppers such as Delaware and Hudson, CNW, and SOO Line.
1. AC4400CW #5105

Train #2 (2:24): Amtrak P079 goes south.
1. P42DC #82

Train #3 (3:26): A CSX GEVO (I think it's a DC GEVO) reverses in the distance. Sorry for the wooden tie stack in the way.

Trains #4 and 5 (3:58): CSX Q409 carefully cruises by the North Collier signals while NS 234 passes underneath with just two engines (it usually runs with three).

CSX Q409
1. ES44AH #757
2. ET44AH #3423 (mid-DPU)

NS 234
1. ES44DC #7684
2. SD70ACe #1137

Train #6 (14:22): CSX H750 passes by.
1. ET44AH #3418
2. ES44AH #3219 (DPU)

Train #7 (17:31): CSX F778 pulls forward with a long line of trash cars and reverses back into the yard. Kinda getting bored of all the CSX Geeps by now, would rather have an SD40-2 on the job!
1. GP38-2 #2708
2. GP38-2 #2575

Trains #8 and 9 (25:07): CSX Q301 slowly but surely passes the railfan battalion at North Collier and gets overtaken by hotshot intermodal Q031 on Track 2, albeit almost entirely blocked. At least Q031's lead locomotive passed by when the front gondola on Q301 did or one of those trash containers could have obstructed it almost in its entirety. I still miss when the Tropicana juice cars would either run on their own, or with high priority Q031, rather than being put on trains that work other yards.

CSX Q301
1. ES40DC #5383
2. AC4400CW #275

CSX Q031
1. ES44AH #3051
2. ES44AH/ET44AH #???(?)

Train #10 (42:10): NS V62 slowly enters the yard. Surprisingly, the trailing unit is Marie from Rails of Highland Valley. I remember catching her model leading the RBBX Circus Train at Jahnke Road back in 2016. V62 goes on duty an hour earlier apparently. He used to go on duty out of Crewe at 3:00, but now they bumped it up another hour or so.
1. AC44C6M #4266
2. C44-9W #9422

(47:34): Train #7 again. F778 passes by again, this time completely by the camera. He now has a cut of boxcars to take to International Paper, just around the corner.
1. GP38-2 #2708
2. GP38-2 #2575

Trains #11 and 12 (50:05): The other guys were going to dinner at Mad Italian's on Crater Road (US 301), but Barry and I decided to stay for Amtrak P053 first. Well not only did we get 53, but also NS 51N. 51N today is a combined grain train with I think two sets of 84 cars. No DPUs either, all units are on the head end. Just after 51N's last car went by, 53's headlight was around the corner. Then we drove to Mad Italian's for dinner (I had the lasagna and manicotti as well as a strawberry cheesecake to-go for dessert), then I went home.

NS 51N
1. AC44C6M #4384
2. AC44C6M #4277 (I think)
3. C44-9W #9972
4. ES44DC #7???

Amtrak P053
1. P40DC #835
2. P40DC #830

(56:58): Slideshow of the catches.

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