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What is used by CSX and NS these days for switching and transfer?

In my area (Central Kentucky) NS seems to use whatever is handy. At the Danville and Lexington yards they tend to keep GP-38's for the yard crews where NW-2's SW-1500's and MP-15's used to be the norm. But they use six axle GE/EMD power for yard and local service all the time.

Nothing looks stranger to me then to see a local freight switching an industry with an SD70-2 or ES40DC!! Not as God intended!!

As for CSX - At their yards in Louisville, KY and Evansville, IN, they seem to be using SW1500's and MP15AC/MP15T's in pairs to do all the yard and switching work.

In this part of the country you can find plenty of "real" switchers. The only GenSet's in the area are a couple that R J Corman keeps in Lexington, KY. They are now in the business of trying to build and sell them and they use one of them to switch industries in Lexington and for demonstration purposes for potential customers. The RJC GenSet seems to be about on equal to a GP38 as far as pulling power.