CSX Mixed Freight on the High Line

Hey guys,

While waiting for my train on last Saturday (23rd), I popped up to the upper level of 30th Street Station (SEPTA Tracks) and was pleasantly surprised to see a NB mixed freight moving through. Now it caught us totally off guard and without a scanner so we didn't get a symbol off it. Here are three pics my friend grabbed off of it:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2506262

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2506263

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2506264

Units: CSX 8744(SD60I) CSX 8052(SD40-2)

I am really struggling to find a train number/symbol for this train and I was hoping for any guesses, as I have no idea where to begin looking.

Two days prior the units were shot in Bear Mountain, NY SB as Q417:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2503441

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2503440

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2503439

Maybe that above sighting two days prior helps narrow it down. The same lashup was there, so it must share a terminal with Q417, could it possibly be Q417's NB counterpart?

No more recent catches of the units have been uploaded, our sighting is the most recent as far as I know.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

Davis

Sorry I missed your post. Q417/418 does not use the high line, in fact it doesn't go that far down the Trenton Line. And for the record, RR direction is EB,WB. What you saw was an EB - going towards Trenton. That was probably either Q410 or Q438 coming up from either Waycross Ga or Hamlet NC, respectively. (Q409/Q439 are the return trains) They are pretty much the only CSX mixed freights on the high line during daylight hours. All EB's go to North Jersey and eventually to Selkirk. If it was early (after 7am) morning, it could be Q300- S Philly-Greenwich to N. Jersey. (Q301 returns in the afternoon/evening hours). Hope that helps.

Thank you very much for the info! It was at about 3 in the afternoon when it was seen! Thank you for narrowing it down to Q410 or Q438, that helps me a bunch since I am totally unfamiliar with what trains traverse that line! I have seen Q438 go through my area down in DC and it is an extremely long train usually, is Q410 a long train as well or is that usually a shorty? If its shorter than Q410 then maybe that would be a way to distinguish the two, I can't think of any other way at the moment. Sometimes some distinguishable mixed freights have a lot of one type of car, like on with a lot of tankers or something?

Thanks man!

Davis