Merger Completed...
A year ago to nearly the day I shot an outbound KCS M-CXSH leaving Baton Rouge, LA, right at sunrise. At that point the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad was still the Kansas City Southern. Fast forward a year, and the Canadian Pacific/Kansas City Southern railroad merger is complete. Now CPKC train M269-18 is running over the Mississippi into Lobdell, Louisiana behind some Canadian power. This day the train is lead by a very clean matched set of Canadian Pacific SD70ACU's. Getting a pairing of these in the deep south was a rare occurrence pre-merger. Now scenes like this may become more common. Getting the M269 here in daylight is a toss up with their call time usually being between 9pm and 12am out of New Orleans. A late arrival the previous day meant we were treated to a great scene as these guys left for Latanier yard near Alexandria, Louisiana.
Thanks for looking!
Merger Completed...
A year ago to nearly the day I shot an outbound KCS M-CXSH leaving Baton Rouge, LA, right at sunrise. At that point the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad was still the Kansas City Southern. Fast forward a year, and the Canadian Pacific/Kansas City Southern railroad merger is complete. Now CPKC train M269-18 is running over the Mississippi into Lobdell, Louisiana behind some Canadian power. This day the train is lead by a very clean matched set of Canadian Pacific SD70ACU's. Getting a pairing of these in the deep south was a rare occurrence pre-merger. Now scenes like this may become more common. Getting the M269 here in daylight is a toss up with their call time usually being between 9pm and 12am out of New Orleans. A late arrival the previous day meant we were treated to a great scene as these guys left for Latanier yard near Alexandria, Louisiana.
Thanks for looking!