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Milwaukee Road train "Southeastern"204 is rolling through Schneider, IN., with a trio of SD40-2's. The train is utilizing trackage rights over Conrail (former NYC Big Four Egyptian Line). In 1979, the Milwaukee Road abandoned their own line (The Southeastern), and started using Conrail, to get down to Terre Haute. I remember thinking how cool these two digit SD40-2's were, because they used to roam the Milwaukee Roads Pacific Extension.
This is shot on 9-28-1985
Testing Canon FD 55mm f1.2 S.S.C. My first f1.2 lens! Heavy but like its wide open bokeh and sharpness/details when stopped down.
A westbound Burlington Northern intermodal train climbs upgrade at Browning, MT on June 3, 1990 with two SD40-2's, one BN and one CR, spliced by a B30-7AB.
Twelve years after the Delaware & Hudson inherited the Reading’s GP39-2’s, one of them is still wearing its Reading colors. It’s seen here with a D&H GP38-2 and a National Railway Leasing F45 pulling a northbound D&H manifest through the fall colors at Bainbridge, New York.
B&M GP40-2's 308 & 316 and GP-9 1736 are assigned along with four Conrail units on this loaded Bow coal train, climbing out of the Connecticut River valley. One day before the start of the Winter season an early snowfall has blanketed western Massachusetts.
Scanned from a slide K64 Canon F-1
© Robert C Barnett 2022
The current day Wheeling is soaring over the former NYC on the original Wheeling with 111 cars on the drawbar behind 4 SD40-2's. Both lines are now owned by NS and Oak Harbor has long been a 'classic' railroad location but this perspective is only available from the air. Oak Harbor, OH 3/7/2021
A farmer holding his trusted Westie after the chores are all done. Time to relax for the evening.
Prompt: Farmer and small West Highland Terrier with ears up, in the style of vintage Norman Rockwell, High detailed, 35mm lens, trending on artstation, trending on deviantart, highly detailed, 14k --ar 5:4 --q 2 --s 750 --v 5.1
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Four of the eight leased SD45's help east through Rocky Canyon.
MRL ended up purchasing the eight beginning the accumulation their large fleet of SD45 and 45-2's.
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In a rare move today, Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum pulled 105 hoppers out of storage from Copperhill, TN bound for scrap. TVRM operates a section of the former L&N 'Old Line' or 'Hook & Eye Line' between Etowah and Copperhill mainly running the tourist train and a very occasional storage car move. GMTX GP38-2's #2005 & #2004 bracket TVRM GP38-2 #5109 as they ease across the Hiawassee River at Reliance, TN.
A Vermont Railway Qualifying Extra is seen blasting north over the Sugar River trestle in Claremont, NH on the NECR Palmer Subdivision. With the closure of the Middlebury Tunnel on the VRS Northern Subdivision starting in the coming weeks, Vermont Railway will be detouring trains over the former CV now New England Central mainline from Burlington to Bellows Falls, providing some unique photo opportunities for a normally nocturnal stretch of railroad. Although I would like to see matching VRS power, the power will primarily be GATX GP38-2's that were leased by the State of Vermont specifically for these detours.
After doubling up their train for the trip down the Garden State Secondary, OI-16 is seen departing Oak Island via CP-PIKE with a 4 pack of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2’s for power.
CSAO OI-16
CSXT SD40-2 #8886
NS SD45-2 #1705
NS SD45-2 #1700 - EL
NS SD45-2 #1703
Also on hand at Brewster were a couple "tiger" 40-2's getting PTC Mods in them. It's a busy place that serves as the nerve center for WE's operations.
South Shore Freight's Belt Job with 2 SD38-2's meets NS 68N with the GTW heritage unit leading at Pullman Jct in Chicago Illinois
A pair of Operation Lifesaver painted GP38-2's cross over the Ohio River as they lead Norfolk Southern local C17 into Steubenville, Ohio. The train is heading back towards the yard at Mingo Junction, Ohio after working industries along the Wells Industrial Track on the West Virginia side of the river.
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NS Weirton Secondary
Steubenville, OH
NS C17 (Local; Mingo Junction, OH to Wellsburg, WV Turn)
NS 5342 GP38-2 Ex. CR 8181 Blt. 1978
NS 5358 GP38-2 Ex. CR 8212 Blt. 1978
The last of the Lake State Railway SD50-2's to be painted at MEI # 6356 ( ex CSX # 8599 ) is seen at East St Louis, IL on Oct 22nd 2020. Taken with LSRC permission.
With the FURX GP38-2 in the shop for only the second or third time since showing up on the property a number of years ago, this was a good week to try to shoot an all green consist on the NHN. Unfortunately winter is here and the sand trains are short so the GP18 has been staying home. It was great to see the matched set of clean GP38-2's in good paint, hopefully in the future this will be a daily occurance. The heavy rains that brought brown season back for a few days have raised the water level pretty high at Union Meadows.
Union, New Hampshire
December 16, 2019
A digital fine art photography of a depiction of Boston Harbor in the 1600s with numerous tall ships tied up at the pier in the early morning fog.
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A quartet of Illinois Central Gulf GP38-2's enter Fulton, KY as the Conductor prepares to hop off and line switches ahead of the train in June of 1985.
The lead engine 9607 is lettered "Edward H Harriman" below the number on the side of the cab.
Second engine 9563 is the ex-GM&O 743.
Third engine 9632 was lettered "John F Wallace" and fourth engine 9602 had "Abraham Lincoln" lettering.
B&M GP40-2 313 along with GP38-2's 202 & 201 all in the updated livery are handing PO-ME on this Spring afternoon. All the shots that were wide open back then before rock screens on bridges and brush growth. Seen here exactly 1 day short of 40 years ago!
Scanned from a slide K64 Canon F-1
© Robert C Barnett 2022
An SD40 and two SD40-2’s lead a westbound Conrail manifest into Reading, Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. The lead unit is passing the former Reading Brewing Company brewery, which closed in 1976, the same year that Reading Company was folded into Conrail. The brand was later resurrected and is now produced by Ruckus Brewing.
For a time in 1979, several Delaware & Hudson GP39-2’s showed up in Conrail service. A few Conrail B23-7’s were spotted on D&H trains, so I believe that these were loans for evaluation, especially since Conrail was beginning to replace its first- and early second-generation fleet. Here two D&H GP39-2’s join a Conrail U30B on the Saucon Drill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, while a PB&NE switcher/slug set work in the background. The EMD’s are no strangers to these tracks, having begin their lives as Reading units.
For a period of time, rumors would circulate around INRD that it should acquire the CSX (former B&O) Decatur subdivision across eastern Illinois. Eventually, in 2018, CSX did sell it...but INRD was not the buyer. However, the new owner, Watco Lines, leased two INRD GP38-2's for their first 90 days. This gave guys like me, the chance to get scenes like this. Decatur & Eastern Illinois job 101 is westbound at Newman, IL, with INRD power leading.
A pair of Norfolk Southern SD40-2's lead Alabama Division local A43 back west towards Anniston, AL as they duck under the cantilever signals at Tallapoosa, GA. October 2014.
We are down to walking speed as SIBI grinds out of the river valley with two veteran GP38-2's in charge.
Joliet, IL
2017.08.05
IAIS BICSX heads west through Robbins Illinois with a pair of GP38-2's. Replacements for the Rock Island era searchlight signals are standing and its only a matter of time before they come down.
Four SD40-2's make easy work of a 120-car loaded sand train east into Bolivar at sunset on the first day of June 2021.
A pair of South Shore Freight GP38-2's lead the AARPCO special east through Michigan City on the soon to be replaced street running.
We are at a location known as Egypt at the east end of CSX's former C&O Fulton Yard at Richmond. VA on March 9, 1991. This unit coal train has arrived from the west with two SD40-2's, crews have been swapped, and they are waiting for the pusher, with two more SD40-2's, to be added to the rear. Soon the show shall begin with four SD40-2's starting the 12,000 ton coal train on the .63% grade. It was a sound show for sure. Back then, I truly didn't appreciate the SD40-2's as much as I should have.
An evening Canadian National local in Hamilton, Ontario has just crossed over Burlington Street as it heads into Bunge with a pair of GP38-2's to pick up covered hoppers. They will then shove out of the facility and continue on to work other industries under the cover of darkness.
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CN N&NW Sub
Hamilton, ON
CN YHM303-12 (Local; Stuart Yard - Hamilton, ON to Hamilton, ON Turn)
CN 7502 GP38-2 Ex. 202, CN 5542 Blt. 1973
CN 7524 GP38-2 Ex. CN 224, CN 5540 Blt. 1973
CSX SD40-3 #4011 leads a pair of SD40-2's with autorack train Q211 through Tunnel Hill, GA on a crisp autumn morning.
Y-HOD303 heads into BNSF GM Yard in Hodgkins Illinois with 2 former BN SD40-2's leading a former BN GP39E with its original GP30 carbody.
My first visit to Lehigh Valley territory after the Conrail merger was a sobering experience. The LV’s second generation road power was divided between Conrail and the newly-expanded Delaware & Hudson, with the D&H getting the C420’s and GP38-2’s, and Conrail getting the GP38AC’s, U23B’s and C628’s. Although the D&H power frequently visited the area, they were immediately rebranded to ensure that they did not get sent to some remote Conrail terminal in the confusion that could ensue in a one-day consolidation of six major railroads, as well as several smaller ones. Arriving in Bethlehem on Conrail Day 4, I found a sea of Penn Central road power, with some Erie-Lackawanna and Reading thrown in. I spied one train moving east with three LV U23B's and a PC NW2. This would be the last time I ever saw pure LV road units.
With two SD70M-2's on each end and 104 ore hoppers to load, the head and rear end of Canadian National's U702 meet as the train slowly makes its way around the loading loop at the dock in Conneaut, Ohio. The train crossing the bridge over Conneaut Creek, which is the only four track railroad swing bridge in the world, though the western track has been removed for an access road.
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CN Bessemer Subdivision
Conneaut, OH
CN U70262-09 (Iron Ore Loads; Conneaut, OH to URR - North Bessemer, PA)
CN 8804 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007
CN 8948 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010
(DPU) CN 8876 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010
(DPU) CN 8800 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007
Une première chapelle, mentionnée en 979, a été remplacée vers la fin du XI siècle par l'édifice qui a été remarquablement préservé jusqu'à nos jours.
L'ensemble de la nef voûtée en berceau et les bas-côtés (23 m de la porte d'entrée au fond de l'abside et 11 m de large) forme un ensemble architectural remarquable.
St Martin d'Escales possède 2 portails, un au sud et un à l'ouest. Tous les 2 s'ouvrent sur une archivolte à double rouleau de dessin lombard.
Cette église est une des rares églises audoises où l'on ait conservé une couverture de lauzes ; pour le vérifier, il suffit de grimper l'escalier extérieur abrupt accolé au clocher.
Le maître-autel, fait d'un sarcophage du I et II siècles, rappelle l''implantation romaine.
Dans l'absidiole méridionale a été mis en valeur un sol de petits pavés de briques qui devait, à l''origine, recouvrir toute l'église.
Son clocher, quadrangulaire, est typiquement roman avec 2 étages de baies sur chaque face.
Chacune de ces 12 baies est surmontée d'arc basalte .
A trio of SD40-2's (7225, 6822, 7267) and a fuel tender (FT-9) make up a Crawford Hill helper set as they shove on a loaded coal train that consisted almost entirely of KCS Thrall hopper cars. They are seen climbing Crawford Hill in May of 1985 with extended vision caboose FW&D #179 trailing behind.