Another Lucky Break in the Clouds
CPKC local LL60 is outbound at the west end of the Bonnet Carre' Spillway in Montz, LA, with a trio of Belle 40 series EMD motors on point. The Baton Rouge turn out of New Orleans was a long standing bastion of newer EMD SD70mac engines. Shortly after the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger those were called back to road service, and now the local draws EMD standard cab power. Former Frisco GP40 2961 leads SD40-2's 3205 and 3206 north with 58 cars in tow this day. The sun was all but gone by the time the train got on the east end of the spillway bridge. Good cloud structure meant all wasn't lost. Just as they got into telephoto range the sun popped through a pinhole in the gathering storm clouds, and remained out through the end of the bridge... It's no KCS OCS here, but a trio of KCS standard cabs isn't a bad second... Hopefully this kind of power sticks around here a bit. It's a nice thing to see as the CPKC regime takes over.
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Another Lucky Break in the Clouds
CPKC local LL60 is outbound at the west end of the Bonnet Carre' Spillway in Montz, LA, with a trio of Belle 40 series EMD motors on point. The Baton Rouge turn out of New Orleans was a long standing bastion of newer EMD SD70mac engines. Shortly after the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger those were called back to road service, and now the local draws EMD standard cab power. Former Frisco GP40 2961 leads SD40-2's 3205 and 3206 north with 58 cars in tow this day. The sun was all but gone by the time the train got on the east end of the spillway bridge. Good cloud structure meant all wasn't lost. Just as they got into telephoto range the sun popped through a pinhole in the gathering storm clouds, and remained out through the end of the bridge... It's no KCS OCS here, but a trio of KCS standard cabs isn't a bad second... Hopefully this kind of power sticks around here a bit. It's a nice thing to see as the CPKC regime takes over.
Thanks for looking!