CSX business car special

In August most of CSXT's business car fleet and locomotives made a round trip from Florida to West Virginia. The trip was sponsored by Executive Vice President of Transportation Al Crown.

The consist was as follows:

F40PH 9992

F40PH 9993

Business car 994011 Youngstown

Generator car 994363 Kentucky

Business car 994008 Mississippi

Business car 994307 Washington:

Business car 994308 Florida

Business car 994317 Baltimore

Business car 994300 North Carolina

Business car 994010 New York

Business car 994315 Indiana

Diner 994319 Greenbrier

Business car 994012 Michigan

Track observation car 994318 Georgia

The special departed Jacksonville on August 15th as P985-15. It arrived in Richmond the next day and operated over the former C&O from Fulton Yard to Clifton Forge where the F40s were refueled. At White Sulphur Springs the train was split in two sections. Most of the train continued to Huntington where it was used on Saturday, August 18, by the United Way kickoff event as in the previous year.

The remainder of the train departed White Sulphur Springs on the afternoon of Sunday, August 19, for Ashland, Ky. Railroad guests were detrained for the Ashland Plaza Hotel.

The business cars were combined at Russell Yard and departed Monday morning, August 20, as a Central Region inspection train (see photo on page 19). The train traveled via the Big Sandy Subdivision and former Clinchfield to Spartanburg, S.C., where it arrived that evening. Here the locomotives were fueled and the cars watered. The train departed Spartanburg early on August 21 and ran to Jacksonville.

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