EMD Variants
Anyone that knows me, knows I am a dyed in the wool Electro-Motive Diesel fan, especially the SD70's, with few exceptions. So when I was called out of the hotel in Chicago, Wednesday night, and my conductor handed me our train profile, I got a little excited.
We were called for the I16602 out of CPKC's Schiller Park Yard, and according to the profile it was going to be lead by CP 7043 with KCS 4030 as a DPU on the rear of the 45 car double stack train.
Right away I noticed a problem with having KCS 4030 on the rear of the train. Upon arriving at the yard office, that yes that is the way CPKC had planned to run the train.
Phone calls were made to address the problem, and eventually it was decided to take the DP off the rear and just run the train with both locomotives on the front of the train.
Now to me things were really getting exciting, with a pair of EMD SD70AC variants in the lead. Even cooler to me was the fact that one of each were in CPKC's predecessors paint, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern
Anymore in CP's later years finding a EMD on the roster became pretty hard with the exception of four axle units as CP had been buying General Electric locomotives almost exclusively for years as power for road trains, so to have a EMD leading let alone a SD70 version is still somewhat rare.
Finally after shuffling some stuff around we departed and had a decent trip home to North Baltimore, OH. After pulling up to the crew change pad, I headed in tied up and took off out the door with photographing the train after departing the yard.
Heading east from North Baltimore I finally found a place that would work, and pulled off the side of the road, and waited about 40 minuets later for the train to show up.
In this early afternoon view CSX train I16602 is eastbound passing a recently harvested bean field as it approaches the interlocking at Godsend, outside of Fostoria, OH. with CP 4073 a EMD SD70ACU leading KCS 4030 a SD70ACe pulling approximately 6400 feet of double stacks bound for Canada.
EMD Variants
Anyone that knows me, knows I am a dyed in the wool Electro-Motive Diesel fan, especially the SD70's, with few exceptions. So when I was called out of the hotel in Chicago, Wednesday night, and my conductor handed me our train profile, I got a little excited.
We were called for the I16602 out of CPKC's Schiller Park Yard, and according to the profile it was going to be lead by CP 7043 with KCS 4030 as a DPU on the rear of the 45 car double stack train.
Right away I noticed a problem with having KCS 4030 on the rear of the train. Upon arriving at the yard office, that yes that is the way CPKC had planned to run the train.
Phone calls were made to address the problem, and eventually it was decided to take the DP off the rear and just run the train with both locomotives on the front of the train.
Now to me things were really getting exciting, with a pair of EMD SD70AC variants in the lead. Even cooler to me was the fact that one of each were in CPKC's predecessors paint, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern
Anymore in CP's later years finding a EMD on the roster became pretty hard with the exception of four axle units as CP had been buying General Electric locomotives almost exclusively for years as power for road trains, so to have a EMD leading let alone a SD70 version is still somewhat rare.
Finally after shuffling some stuff around we departed and had a decent trip home to North Baltimore, OH. After pulling up to the crew change pad, I headed in tied up and took off out the door with photographing the train after departing the yard.
Heading east from North Baltimore I finally found a place that would work, and pulled off the side of the road, and waited about 40 minuets later for the train to show up.
In this early afternoon view CSX train I16602 is eastbound passing a recently harvested bean field as it approaches the interlocking at Godsend, outside of Fostoria, OH. with CP 4073 a EMD SD70ACU leading KCS 4030 a SD70ACe pulling approximately 6400 feet of double stacks bound for Canada.