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Back when the "Belles" were a reference to the passenger service that had ended seven years before, the KCS road freights were ruled by the "White Knights", my fellow BN engineers' nickname for those very basic and (mostly) very dependable SD40's and their "dash two" descendants. On home territory here, northbound freight #42's Extra arrives for a crew change behind three SD40's. It would be a little more than a year before I started having working encounters with these locomotives, as the BN and KCS did pool their power frequently on coal trains that loaded in the Powder River Basin.
With the backend of a thunderstorm just clearing off, I was fortunate to catch a bit of sun in August of 1991. Chessie System 8396 crosses the Cass River in Bridgeport, MI.