CSX M523-10 (Nashville,TN-Mobile,AL) is making the pull out on the B-Line out of the west Radnor Yard Lead for Mobile, AL on this cool August evening, but before the 10K long freight could get out of the terminal it will have to come to a stop so the carman could place an EOT on the bottom of the freight at the Sidco Drive grade crossing. CSXT No 1899 Pere Marquette Heritage Unit had made its debut to the CSX Heritage Fleet on the 1st of May of this year. The Pere Marquette Railroad, operating in the Great Lakes region in the U.S. and part of southern Ontario, Canada, derived its name from Jacques Marquette, a notable French Jesuit missionary credited with founding Michigan's first European settlement in Sault Ste Marie. On June 1st, 1947, The PM merged with the C&O which would eventually become part of the CSX System. A fairly clean motor for it being in revenue service for 3 months.
