NS 7600, NS 9533, NS 9923 pull NS 201 through Huntsville, AL (B&A)
336 views · Published 27 February 2016 · 2:01 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: freebrickproductions · 2016 · Science & Technology
Caught this guy during school today. If you're curious about why I put "B&A", it's a classification system that Yoshi the Railfanner uses that I decided to adopt, but only for the trains I film on Class Is where I'm not trying to record the crossing. B&A are trains where all of the engines that had a chance at leading have cab signals (IE: the ones on the ends if one of the engines is backwards, or all of them are elephant-style). It's name comes from a CSX line where they typically have two cab-signaled engines facing away from each other since the locomotives can't be turned around at either end of the line, IIRC. The others that I'll be using are as follows: 1UW - a train with one engine pulling it. ARFP - a train where a cab-signal-less engine is leading a cab-signaled one; opposite of RFP (below). D9DL - "Dash-9 Disloyalty" - Any engine leading a Dash-9 elephant style or in a way that it can't lead on the NS. D9L - "Dash-9 Loyalty" - A Dash-9 leading any engine elephant style on the NS. Engine Abandonment - A train with an older foreign engine leading a newer engine that's from the railroad that operates the line. FD - "Fleet Disloyalty" - A foreign engine that's the same age or newer as the engine that it's leading on home rails. Foreign Junk - usually a foreign GEVO leading a train, but I'll be using it to refer to BNSF GEVOs leading, since I see those leading a lot. Foreign RFP - a cab-signaled engine leading foreign power. FP - "Foreign power" - a lash-up of all foreign engines on a train. OS - "Old School" - a lash-up where none of the engines have cab signals. RFP - a cab-signaled engine leading a non-cab-signaled one - named after a CSX line that requires cab signals. Safe Playing - a non-cab-signaled engine leading foreign power. (I might've gotten some of these definitions wrong though, so feel free to correct me Yoshi!)
