CSX 958 crosses Bush Street at Gaslight Square, a name that recalls the conversion of B&O-hauled coal to gas that began here during the 19th century and continued for about a century. Unit 958 is a GE model ES44AC-H.

A mix of freight followed 958, including many uncommon railcars. AOCX is the reporting mark of Aluminum Company of America. The mark and number appears near the center of the car's side, an unusual location for it.

RMCX is am infrequently seen reporting mark that represents Reynolds Metals Company.

Scribblers love to vandalize the expansive, smooth, white sides of refrigerated units. Each Cryo-Trans car is given a unique name: this one is Ouray.

You won't often see a Pressure Vessel Service, Inc. car.

Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad purchased this Big Blue boxcar from CSX. Big Blues are Excess Height cars.

A winter-weather-dirtied CSX 5312 was mid-train on DPU duty.

CSX 496045 could use more effort from the taggers to protect it from rust. Steel transport cars like this include covers to discourage rust on the products within. Unprotected fresh steel touched by water will begin rusting within seconds.

KOPX is a relatively new reporting mark, garnering just one photo in the massive database at RR Picture Archives, as of this writing.

Link: KOPX

While waiting for new coil steel cars to be delivered, CSX creatively repurposed a few old gondolas by borrowing a roof from an autorack.

That was quick! Some of the new coil steel cars were in the consist as well. I assume the 499275-499574 numbering represents all the cars in the new group. I don't know why the full range would be painted on.

The slow-moving train took almost 15 minutes to pass Bush Street. The waiting automobile drivers were not as happy as the railfans.

The train curved northwest away from the main line in order to follow the B&O's former Locust Point Branch to Carrollton Viaduct. The truck is southbound on I-95.

Change for: Locust Point Branch tour at this site

This is the end of the same train as seen from I-95 three minutes later. The Montgomery Park building had been a Montgomery Ward warehouse.

We caught the train's DPU, CSX 5312, atop Carrollton Viaduct. The photo is not the best because the viaduct is difficult to spot from I-95.

The train rumbled into Mt. Clare Yard next, where it paused.

Eventually, it emerged from Mt. Clare Yard (left) and followed B&O's original route west out of Baltimore.

CSX 958 pulled into Lansdowne about an hour after crossing Carrollton Viaduct, then reversed.

Reversing pushed the consist onto the Curtis Bay Branch that bridges over Mt. Winan's Yard behind the engine.

Change for: Curtis Bay Branch tour at this site

Here, 958 has reached the old Gable Avenue grade crossing.

For closure, we'll bookend with a photo of 958 taken a few years prior.