Looking for info on CSX U23B 33O5

csxchris wrote:3305 may have been turned into an RCO platform. I do recall this engine sitting at Selkirk for a while. When it arrived it was being used as a parts donor and was already missing some power assemblies and other various parts. I would like to say I recall it being sent to Waycross or Huntington for the RCO shove platform conversion.

no, those were all retired -7's...

mostly B30-7's

listen you twit, I'm pretty sure even the 3305 got sent for for that conversion

Now, now...

It's not that important to be right.

Relax, guys.....................and enough of the name-calling.

csxchris wrote:listen you twit, I'm pretty sure even the 3305 got sent for for that conversion

I can understand it is hard to admit you are wrong, so let me set you straight...


Current roster for RCPHG4
9134 YN2 x-5539 Saginaw
9135 YN2 x-5543 Detroit
9136 YN3 x-5527 Stanley
9151 YN3 x-5923 Atlanta
9156 YN2 x-5919 Stanley
9157 YN2 x-5883 Detroit
9161 YN2 x-5550 Detroit
9162 YN2 x-5556 Stanley
9163 YN2 x-5558 GrBlanc
9241 YN2 x-5821 Muskegon
9242 YN2 x-5881 Detroit
9243 YN2 x-5840 Stanley
9244 YN2 x-5868 PortHuron
9245 YN2 x-5893 GrRapids
9246 YN2 x-5846 Walbridge
9247 YN2 x-5901 GrBlanc
9248 YN2 x-5917 Detroit
9249 YN2 x-5892 GrRapids
9250 YN2 x-5814 Walbridge
9252 YN2 x-5916 Danville
9253 YN2 x-5829 Stanley
9254 YN2 x-5872 Danville
9255 YN2 x-5896 Saginaw

Current roster for RCPHG6
9301 YN2 x-7072 Stanley
9302 YN2 x-7030 Walbridge
9303 YN2 x-7029 Detroit
9304 YN2 x-7091 Stanley

Any pics of these units after being converted to shoving platforms?

basically they plated up all the radiator openings, intakes and dynamic brake vents

I cant believe they painted 9136 and 9151 in YN3, seems like a huge waste of money

here is what the EMD versions (ex-GP40) look like





basically all they did was slap the electronics in them and renumber them

although they did plate over the dymanmic brake blister and remove the dynamic brake fan

Thanks Nip

Do you know whether or not the 9119 is still in that 'pumpkin' scheme?

I believe it is

and last time I was down at Waycross (February) there were 3 or 4 GP40's still in Orange sitting in the dead line, along with most of the C30-7's and some other GE junk

Much to my surprise, there was already an appropriate thread for my question...from 2005.

I'm going through my notes from some old railfanning trips (I've fallen pretty far behind) and noticed that I wrote down that I saw CSX 3305 from a trip into Cleveland in June 2010. This would have been from Quigley Road, running along the tracks behind the Steelyard shopping complex. This struck me as strange, over two years later, and internet research can't locate 3305 after it was in the deadline in Selkirk in 2001. Is it possible some piece of this locomotive bearing its old reporting marks wound up in Cleveland 11 years later? Does anyone have any further information on the ultimate fate of 3305?

tytrain wrote:Much to my surprise, there was already an appropriate thread for my question...from 2005.

I'm going through my notes from some old railfanning trips (I've fallen pretty far behind) and noticed that I wrote down that I saw CSX 3305 from a trip into Cleveland in June 2010. This would have been from Quigley Road, running along the tracks behind the Steelyard shopping complex. This struck me as strange, over two years later, and internet research can't locate 3305 after it was in the deadline in Selkirk in 2001. Is it possible some piece of this locomotive bearing its old reporting marks wound up in Cleveland 11 years later? Does anyone have any further information on the ultimate fate of 3305?

Searching to the end of the Internet took me to a post on Trainorders from August 2001, 3305 was sent to Midwest Steel in Youngstown, presumably to be scrapped. I suppose this makes a Cleveland, OH appearance of some piece of it in 2010 plausible but still improbable. Perhaps its cab or hood was sold? Anyone know anything about the operation near Steelyard?