Life and Times of a urban railfan

The best thing one can do when it's raining is let it rain  ~H.W. Longfellow  This past Friday I was able to finally get a day off from work and while the weather was not the most opportunistic for trains or amateur radio it was a great day to be trackside. I packed a few sandwiches and drinks and headed off to meet my buddy under the bridge in his car ( our default rain location) while I was there only a few minutes I heard the Q216 call Firestone signal knowing he would be there in a few minutes. Q-216 with a SD40-3 leader passes by a piece of construction equipment  After the Q216 I set and shot the bull with Dave and within about a half hour we hear the Q015 as it cleared a few signals away. What I would see next would not leave me disappointed. Q016 with a lone Horse?  What appeared around the corner was what seemed to be a lone horse leading a long line of double stack containers. Was this real? had CSX lost their minds?,  no absolute way should this be work

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies that a fool does from his friends" ~Baltasar Gracian   There is more truth to the above statement than I would like to admit. I first off want to apologize to my loyal followers for my abrupt abandonment of my blog. It was with a great deal of personal anguish that I had to quit blogging at the request of my now former employer. If you remember back to my last post I had mentioned about how my job provided me with the opportunity to watch trains but soon the skies would darken not physically, but metaphorically speaking the storm was on the horizon and it didn't look good.  Shortly after my last blog post my new manager called me into the office and had me write down exactly what I did and once I did that, a new directive was written this included for me to stop all social media, train, ham radio, and other activities not related to work as it was a distraction to my work in his eyes. One of the few Auto racks I was