| Nick was back in town for his yearly Winter visit to the area for family, which meant it was time once again for our yearly Winter Trip. Despite having a disaster of a train day in Indy back in July, we decided to give it another go for our Winter Trip as INRDs road freight south out of the city was back on a daytime schedule and would be utilizing what are the fairly new SD70Ms that were bought from PRLX (n/e Norfolk Southern) earlier in the year to replace the SD9043MACs. We decided to get an early start to see if we could possibly shoot INRDs daily turn job to CSXs Avon Yard which was now using SD40-2s regularly again. We headed straight for Senate Avenue Yard and right off the bat we could SAUT-1 pulling and pushing a cut of cars building the SAHW for later in the day with a sole geep. Facing the wrong way albiet, but a good start to the day nonetheless. |