CSX River Line Status Updates

CPSK wrote:There has been a CSX foreman in the area of 69th st for a long time. I guess he needs to be there if there is any obstruction to rail traffic during construction of the bridge.
There is also a foreman at mp 20.5 recently. Do you happen to know what's going on up there?
I recall when there was a foreman at mp 13.0 in Dumont. I took a run (by foot) up there and found PSE&G working on the substation there.

Not sure if they are still doing this there, but they were putting in new rail between 20.5 and 22 earlier this fall

I was at CP5 tonight from 11:30pm Fri-4:15am Sat

1) Q418: 11:55pm (2 D8)
2) Q004: 12:05am (2 D8/ES44)
3) Q009: 1am (3 ES40)
4) Q163: 1:02am (ES40/AC44)
5) NB44: 1:20am (SD40-2)
6) Q159: 1:45am (D8/AC44)
7) Q112: 2am (D8/ES40/AC60)
8) Q162: 4:10am (C40-8/AC60)

I was at CP5 from 4:30am-8:30am Saturday

1) Q162: 5am (ES44/C40-8)
2) Q254: 5:30am (AC44/SD50)
3) Q003: 6:55am (ET44/ES44/ES40/AC44)
4) Q010: 6:55am (AC44/ES44)
5) Q161: 7:30am (SD50/ES44)
6) Q158: 8am (MAC/AC44)
7) Q008: 8:30am (AC44/ES44/ET44)

I was at CP5 this morning:

1) Q004: Midnight (2 AC44/ES40)
2) Q112: 12:20am (2 ES44)
3) Y337: 1:30am (ET44/C40-8/ES44)
4) Q410: 2:55am (ES40/C40-8)

I was at CP5 early morning on the 6th, from 1:45am-2:30am

1) Q159: 1:55am (2 ES44/ES40)
2) L162: 2:25am (ES44/ET44)

CP5 until 11pm and CP10 the rest of the way tonight:

1) K684: 6:50pm (2 ES44)
2) Q167: 8:30pm (SD40-2/SD40-3)
3) Q127: 9pm (AC44/ES40)
4) Q004: 9:05pm (2 ES40/ES44)
5) Q163: 9:30pm (ES44/ES40)
6) M409: 10:45pm (ET44/AC44/2 B20-8/C40-8)
7) K040: 11:45pm (BNSF ES44AC/AC60)
8) Q254: 12:15am (ES40/C40-8)
9) Q009: 12:35am (ET44/2 AC44)
10) Q418: 1:15am (ES40/C40-8)

Was at CP80 today for about an hour around noon:

1) Q254: - CSX 3213, ?
2) K653: - BCOL 4652, CN 2602
3) Q417: - CSX 5409, CSX 7727
Obviously the lucky catch was the 653...

I was out from 8:30pm Wed-5:30am Thurs at CP5:

1) Q167: 8:45pm (ES40/AC44)
2) Q004: 9:45pm (2 ES40/AC44)
3) Q127: 10pm (ES40/MAC)
4) M409: 10:45pm (ET44/AC44/B20-8)
5) Q009: 12:45am (ES44/AC44/ET44)
6) Q163: 1am (MAC/AC44)
7) K142: 1:35am (ES40/C40-8)
8) Q438: 2:30am (ES44/2 D8)
9) Q273: 3:30am (2 ES44/D8/2 2GS14B)
10) Q159: 3:45am (2 ES40/2 AC44)
11) Q161: 4:40am (ES44/ET44)
12) Q112: 4:45am (SD40-3/SD40-2)
13) Q410: 5:20am (AC60/ES44)

I have noticed the past 4 days that the Q417 has had long strings of autoracks on the rear (40-60 cars). They have also ran several autorack unit trains, believed all symboled Q-254. Was wondering if anyone knew if CSX abolished Q-268 and have added there cars onto mixed freights (like 438/439 taking over for 702/703). Or is there excess auto cars that need transport to New Jersey. I have seen in the past, a few autoracks mixed in with mixed freight but never that many onto the rear of a train...

AMK0123 wrote:I have noticed the past 4 days that the Q417 has had long strings of autoracks on the rear (40-60 cars). They have also ran several autorack unit trains, believed all symboled Q-254. Was wondering if anyone knew if CSX abolished Q-268 and have added there cars onto mixed freights (like 438/439 taking over for 702/703). Or is there excess auto cars that need transport to New Jersey. I have seen in the past, a few autoracks mixed in with mixed freight but never that many onto the rear of a train...

As of Last year, Q417 now works Bellmans, so all Bellmans bound racks go on 417. Q268 has been abolished. Q254 now runs daily right down to Doremus. L262 runs Sundays only, right to Bellmans

Waldwick thanks for the update. I had tried to do a search first of current CSX train symbols and came up with nothing that is up to date. So, as a update, Q268, Q702, and Q703 abolished. Q254 and L262 along with northbound Q271/273 are current. Q409 is now doing the Kingston drop, and Q438/439 are carrying the 702/703 cars... Is that about right?

Q271 has not ran in about a year (with exception of once last month), and cars have been going west on NS 15J for about a year now. Rest is correct, ill post a list of trains below:

Q001: Tue only: Little Ferry,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q002: Thu only: Chicago,IL-Little Ferry,NJ
Q003: Tu-Sa: Little Ferry,NJ-Chicago,IL
L004: Thurs: Chicago,IL-South Kearny,NJ (Works Little Ferry)
Q004: F-W: Chicago,IL-South Kearny,NJ
Q008: W-M: Rose Lake,IL-Little Ferry,NJ
Q009: Tu-Su: North Bergen,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q010: Daily: Chicago,IL-North Bergen,NJ
Q013: Su, Thanksgiving-Christmas: Worcester,MA-North Bergen,NJ
Q014: Sunday: North Bergen,NJ-Worcester,MA
K038, K040, K042, K044, K048, K138, K140, K142, K144: Chicago,IL-Philadelphia,PA
K139, K141: Philadelphia,PA-Chicago,IL
L112: Friday: Chicago,IL-Port Newark,NJ
Q112: Sa-Th: Chicago,IL-Port Newark,NJ
Q114: Sa-Su: Syracuse,NY-Port Newark,NJ
Q127: M, W, F: South Kearny,NJ-New Baltimore,OH
L157: Sat: South Kearny,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q157: Tue, Thu: South Kearny,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q158: Daily: New Baltimore,OH-South Kearny,NJ
L159: Mon: Port Newark,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q159: Tu-Su: Port Newark,NJ-Syracuse,NY
Q161: Daily: South Kearny,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q162: Daily: Syracuse,NY-Port Newark,NJ
L163: Sat: Port Newark,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q163: M-F: Port Newark,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q167: M-F: Port Newark,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q254: Daily: Louisville,KY-Newark,NJ
L262: Sun: Columbus,OH-Ridgefield,NJ
Q273: Daily: Ridgefield,NJ-Selkirk,NY
K408: Buffalo,NY-Woodbridge,NJ
K418: Buffalo,NY-Linden,NJ
K404, K438: Columbus,OH-Linden,NJ
K452: Columbus,OH-Philadelphia,PA
K456: Columbus,OH-Woodbridge,NJ
K409: Woodbridge,NJ-Buffalo,NY
K419: Linden,NJ-Buffalo,NY
K405, K439: Linden,NJ-Columbus,OH
K457: Woodbridge,NJ-Columbus,OH
M409: Wed: Selkirk,NY-Florence,SC (combined Q409 and Q439)
Q409: Th-Tu: Selkirk,NY-Florence,SC (works Kingston)
Q410: Daily: Florence,SC-Selkirk,NY
Q417: Daily: Selkirk,NY-Camden,NJ (works Bellmans and North Bergen)
Q418: Daily: Camden,NJ-Selkirk,NY (works South Kearny)
Q433: Daily: Selkirk,NY-Newark,NJ
Q434: Daily: Newark,NJ-Selkirk,NY
Q438: Daily: Hamlet,NC-Selkirk,NY
Q439: Daily: Selkirk,NY-Hamlet,NC
K533: Baltimore,MD-Massena,NY
K534: Massena,NY-Baltimore,MD
K602, K610: Chicago,IL-Philadelphia,PA
K634, K680, K682, K684, K686, K688, K694: Chicago,IL-Woodbridge,NJ
K636, K648, K652, K654, K656, K678: Chicago,IL-Linden,NJ
K635, K681, K683, K685, K687, K689, K695: Chicago,IL-Woodbridge,NJ
K637, K649, K653, K655, K657, K679: Linden,NJ-Chicago,IL
Q710: Daily: Kearny,NJ-Russell,KY
Q711: Daily: Russell,KY-Kearny,NJ

When was Q409 cut back to Florence? IIRC, it used to go all the way to Waycross.

rr503 wrote:When was Q409 cut back to Florence? IIRC, it used to go all the way to Waycross.

A few months ago (I want to say October) it was cut back to Florence,SC since most of it's train would be set off by then, and instead of running an extra train down to Waycross for only a handful of cars, they decided to end it at Florence

Forgot to post the list from Thursday into Friday, but I was out from 8:15pm-6am at CP5. Just under 10 hours and got 21 CSX trains, and all Class 1's except CN. I did get an NS on the NYSW, so it is not mentioned in this list. Very rare to get both quantity and quality trains. Usually it's one or the other lol

1) Q167: 8:15pm (ET44/ES44)
2) K038: 8:45pm (AC44/BNSF D9/BNSF ES44DC)
3) Q157: 9:15pm (ES40/AC44)
4) Q439: 9:30pm (ES40/SD40-3)
5) Q433: 9:35pm (AC60/SD40-2)
6) X792: 9:40pm (2 SD40-2)
7) Q002: 9:50pm (2 ES44)
8) Q410: 10:15pm (ES44/D8)
9) K408: 11:05pm (UP ES44AC/KCS ACe)
10) Q163: 11:15pm (D8/C40-8)
11) Q009: 12:35am (2 AC44/ES40)
12) Q418: 1:10am (ACe/D8)
13) Q159: 2:35am (ES44/AC44)
14) L112: 2:50am (2 ES40/ET44)
15) Q273: 3:15am (2 SD40-2)
16) K418: 4:15am (CP AC44/CEFX AC44)
17) K139: 4:35am (BNSF ES44DC/AC60/BNSF ES44AC)
18) K419: 5:20am (2 AC44/CP SD60)
19) Q162: 5:30am (2 AC44)
20) Q161: 5:40am (2 ET44)
21) K140: 5:55am (MAC/AC44)