Norfolk Southern at McKinney

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Norfolk Southern at McKinney Jan 19, 2022 7:01:55 GMT hmca, jackscrap, and 2 more like this

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Northbound Norfolk Southern Intermodal Container Train on the fabled Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific; aka "The Rathole"

Three 4,400-horsepower units.
NS 7605 = GE ES44DC
NS 8049 = GE ES44AC
NS 4198 = GE AC44C6M

Combined Horsepower = 13,200hp
Combined Weight = 1,280,000 lbs

37° 27' 17.41" North Latitude
84° 45' 34.05" West Longitude
Elevation: 1,012'

McKinney Depot
CNO&TP - Norfolk & Southern Railway
McKinney - Lincoln County - Kentucky
Saturday_18-September-2021

In this first photo, the train is passing behind the McKinney Depot Restaurant

Lead unit 4,400-horsepower Norfolk Southern #7605 General Electric ES44DC

Serial Number: 57014
Build Date: July-2006
Engine: GE V-12 4-stroke Diesel
Dynamic Braking
DPU (Distributed Power Unit)
NS LEADER/PTC (Positive Train Control)
Fuel Capacity: 4,825 Gallons
Weight: 416,000 lbs

220 total units built for NS #s 7500-7719

Originally 4,000-hp ES40DC; upgraded to 4,400-hp between October 2013 and August 2014.

GE Evolution Series

Photos of NS 7605_rrpicturearchives

Photos of NS 7605_railpictures

Bellevue Ohio 19-February-2011__A

Bellevue Ohio 19-February-2011__B

Mingo Junction Ohio 29-May-2011

2nd unit 4,400-horsepower Norfolk Southern #8049 General Electric ES44AC

Serial Number: 60233
Build Date: November-2010
Engine: GE V-12 4-stroke Diesel
Dynamic Braking
DPU (Distributed Power Unit)
NS LEADER/PTC (Positive Train Control)
ECP (Electronically Controlled Pneumatic) Train Braking
Fuel Capacity: 4,825 Gallons
Weight: 432,000 lbs

185 total units built for NS #s 8000-8184

Photos of NS 8049_rrpicturearchives

Photos of NS 8049_railpictures

Bellevue Ohio 14-November-2013

Steubenville Ohio 08-April-2014

East Point Georgia 01-March-2020

3rd/trailing unit 4,400-horsepower Norfolk Southern #4198 General Electric AC44C6M

Originally: GE Dash 9-44CW NS #9004
Serial Number: 49180
Build Date: April-1996
Rebuilt as AC44C6M August-2019
Rebuilt By: Wabtec/GE - Fort Worth Texas
Engine: GE V-12 4-stroke Diesel
Dynamic Braking
DPU (Distributed Power Unit)
NS LEADER/PTC (Positive Train Control)
GE Trip Optimizer/PTC (Positive Train Control)
Fuel Capacity: 5,000 Gallons
Weight: 432,000 lbs

509 total units built for NS #s 4000-4500, 4526-4538

Photos of NS 4198_rrpicturearchives

Photos of NS 4198_railpictures

Within a couple miles, this northbound train will return to single track at Palm, then pass under KY Hwy 78 and then under the new alignment of US Hwy 127; it will cross old Hwy 127 "at grade", then pass by Moreland Siding before returning to double track at Bowen and enter the South end of Danville Yard at Stewart's Lane and proceed to the North end for a crew change before heading North to Cincinnati or West to Louisville at the wye North of Danville.

CNO&TP 2nd District Diagram Note: Wednesday_16-February-2022_10:07 AM:CST This link should work now.

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car= TTX Corporation DTTX 988834
These cars are usually in three- or five-section articulated units, being the equivalent of three or five cars permanently connected together to serve as a single car.

Bottom Container = Hub Group 53' HGIU 500267
Top Container = Hub Group 53' HGIU 512347

I hope you enjoy my efforts; thanks for looking.

Last Edit: Feb 16, 2022 17:11:39 GMT by BuckSkin

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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Norfolk Southern at McKinney Jan 20, 2022 11:29:54 GMT Sydney likes this

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A collection of the Double-stack Articulated Container Well Cars in this train.

Although I didn't capture every car in this train, every car I did capture has all 53' containers.

I find it interesting that just about every container is stenciled "Top of Stack ONLY", or "Stack Two High (or Three) ONLY"; like labeling a shipping package "Fragile" or "Do Not Bend", in real practice, all of these notices go out the window.

It is not uncommon on a ship with stacks of eight or ten high to have "Top of Stack ONLY" on the very bottom.

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Cars_Info 1

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Cars_Info 2

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Cars_Info 3

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
TTX Corporation DTTX 788449

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
Burlington Northern/Santa Fe BNSF 254638

Take note of the odd car at right.
This car is purpose-made for hauling semi trailers.
The trailers cannot be driven onto the car; they must be lifted on and off the car.
Note the "fifth wheel" stand; the king-pin of the trailer latches into this exactly the same as the fifth wheel on a truck.

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
Burlington Northern/Santa Fe BNSF 254638

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
Burlington Northern/Santa Fe BNSF 254638
This is the "B" (Brake) end of the car in the previous photo.

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
Florida East Coast Railway FEC 55542

Spotted 02-September-2014 in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Spotted 24-July-2015 in Dunlap, Indiana

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
Burlington Northern/Santa Fe BNSF 255924

Notice the design difference between this car and the BNSF car in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th photos.

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
TTX Corporation DTTX 787604

Last Edit: Feb 16, 2022 16:32:18 GMT by BuckSkin

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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Norfolk Southern at McKinney Jan 20, 2022 11:46:29 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 20, 2022 11:46:29 GMT

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
TTX Corporation DTTX 788111

>Side Note: In the lower-left of this photo is that pair of Brake Shoes.

These cars consist of usually three or five units permanently connected to make one car.

Although not as common, cars can also consist of two, four, and even six, or seven, or more units.

This is the coupler end where the connected units can couple to other freight cars; there are two coupler ends per car, one at each end, an "A End" and a "B End" .

Look closely at the step and hand-rail of the right car and you can see the brake wheel.

The brake wheel is turned to manually set or release a brake so that the car will remain in place when uncoupled from the train.

On most modern railcars, the hand-wheel only sets a single brake.

This is one of the articulated joints between sections of the car.

Notice that a single wheel truck carries the joint.

This connection is permanent; and, regardless of how many articulated units, it is considered as a single car.

Last Edit: Feb 16, 2022 16:22:07 GMT by BuckSkin

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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Norfolk Southern at McKinney Jan 23, 2022 6:47:32 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 23, 2022 6:47:32 GMT

Bringing up the rear of the train is:

Double-stack Articulated Container Well Car
TTX Corporation DTTX 790570

53' Intermodal Container Top = EMP Green EMHU 244480

53' Intermodal Container Bottom = EMP Orange EMHU 201253

From what I gather, there are over 40,000 of these EMP shipping containers in America; all are 53-footers.

Norfolk Southern is the parent company and Union Pacific joined in later.

My understanding is that you can rent one (or all) of these containers, pay around $20/day, and it sit in your backyard until doomsday if that is what you desire.

It is up to the customer to pay for highway transport = getting it to and from the RxR terminal.

Any point-to-point RxR movement is a separate additional charge on top of the $20/day.

This $20/day move was brought on to prevent RxR-owned semi-trailers and shipping containers from disappearing into private/corporate non-RxR use; so long as your name is on the lease, it is costing you $20 per diem no matter where the container is or what it is being used for.

It is also an incentive to quickly load/unload the container and get it back to the RxR.

EMP container details/specifications

History and info:

History and Info 1

History and Info 2

37° 27' 17.41" North Latitude
84° 45' 34.05" West Longitude
Elevation: 1,012'

McKinney Depot
CNO&TP - Norfolk & Southern Railway
McKinney - Lincoln County - Kentucky
Saturday_18-September-2021

>Side Note: In the lower-left of this photo is that pair of Brake Shoes.

Last Edit: Feb 16, 2022 16:21:07 GMT by BuckSkin

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

Sydney Senior Contributor Posts: 1,727 Open to constructive criticism of photos: Yes	Norfolk Southern at McKinney Jan 23, 2022 7:01:49 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Sydney on Jan 23, 2022 7:01:49 GMT With the global supply shortage going on at the moment it would be interesting to know how full these containers are.
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Norfolk Southern at McKinney Jan 23, 2022 7:20:02 GMT

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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 23, 2022 7:20:02 GMT

Jan 23, 2022 7:01:49 GMT Sydney said:

With the global supply shortage going on at the moment it would be interesting to know how full these containers are.

My understanding is that these EMP containers never leave American soil; at least that is my understanding of "domestic use"

That made me think of another interesting fact about containers; especially in International shipping, there is very little "backhaul" business for them; so, like coal cars and livestock trailers, they are mostly empty on their return trip.

In International use, there is very little demand to haul American products back to China; and, in domestic American use, if they are being used to transport automotive parts and components, or some other manufacturing component to a factory, there is nothing there to be brought back.

In real life use, about the only thing that can almost always find a nearby backhaul is a flatbed semi trailer; everything else is loaded one way and empty return.

Last Edit: Jan 23, 2022 7:22:01 GMT by BuckSkin

Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7

On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film.
I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

BuckSkin Senior Contributor Posts: 3,878	Norfolk Southern at McKinney Feb 16, 2022 17:15:10 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by BuckSkin on Feb 16, 2022 17:15:10 GMT I fixed the link for the CNO&TP 2nd District Diagram in the first post and it should work now; I apologize for the inconvenience.
	Elements 7 ~~~ 64-bit Windows 7 On a poverty-level Kentucky budget, a 24-exposure roll of film would have two Christmases and a summer vacation on it and we might have to wait another six months before being able to afford developing the film. I still have trouble remembering that it doesn't cost anything to take thousands of pictures; it just almost seems impossible to be true.

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