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Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9620 leads a southbound (westbound) Union Pacific grain train across UP’s massive bridge over the Snake River at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015.
An eastbound freight drops downgrade through between the two loops above Austin, Montana, over Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass the afternoon of September, 24, 2006. Powering the BNSF train is Kansas City Southern GE AC4400CW No. 4592, along with three MRL SD45s.
Southern Pacific AC4400CW No. 226 leads an eastbound Union Pacific coal train into Pinecliffe, Colorado, for a meet with a westbound coal empty on a snowy April 23, 2001.
SP AC4400CW No. 117 leads a Savage - Moapa coal train between Kyune and Colton, Utah on Sept. 22, 1998. A quartet of Rio Grande helpers were cut in mid-train, visible above the third bend in the track.
An eastbound Chicago & North Western coal load approaches Reno Junction, Wyoming, on May 12, 1995. The spring weather was getting turbulent and stormy, and yes—it snowed the next day! Powering the train is C&NW GE AC4400CW No. 8808, Union Pacific EMD SD60M No. 6235, Norfolk Southern SD70 No. 2519 and UP SD60 No. 6035.
Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5914 leads an eastbound UP coal train into a Crescent, Colorado, on the frosty morning of January 5, 2005.
On September 21, 2015, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9620 leads a westbound Union Pacific grain train across the huge bridge spanning the Snake River at Joso, Washington.
Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 201 rests on the pass-through track from the turntable as a shop employee walks between the two roundhouse buildings at the locomotive facility of Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on January 27, 1996.
An eastbound Union Pacific coal train, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 235, grinds past the Rio Grande Ski Train at Fraser, Colorado, on February 9, 2001. While the skiers are hitting the slopes, the Ski Train lays over in the siding at Fraser just across from the small Amtrak shelter until the appointed time when they head up Winter Park to load skiers for the return trip to Denver.
As the blue hour turns to night over Denver, Colorado, on December 7, 2015, Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 sits inside the cavernous main hall of the former Rio Grande backshop at Burnham Shops. UP No. 5687 is getting an overhaul and change out of its old 4,400 hp 7FDL16 prime mover. Sadly, in a place that once built and rebuilt steam locomotives, this unit is the last locomotive to be overhauled at Burnham before UP closed up the place on February 14, 2016.
Kansas City Southern de Mexico AC4400CW #4543 and a trio of Belles lead a lengthy NS 24E-19/24E-20 combo intermodal train through mountainous Cleburne, AL.
Southern Pacific's first GE AC4400CW locomotive leads a 77-car Trona, California to Skyline, Utah coal empty through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon the morning of July 15, 1995. SP received 279 new AC4400CW units from GE between April and October of 1995.
Southern Pacific AC4400CW units No. 295 and 139 pull an 84-car RODVF 27 through Spanish Fork Canyon at Castilla, Utah the morning of Aug. 27, 1995. The original D&RGW right of way through the town of Thistle borders a row of trees and a private reservoir through this part of the canyon.
A westbound Canadian Pacific intermodal train passes a set of helpers at Rogers, British Columbia, on September 16, 2002. Some tunnel work was being done on the Mount Macdonald Tunnel, requiring some westbound trains to use the older, steeper main line through the Connaught Tunnel, briefly requiring the use of helpers out of Rogers once again.
Heading south up Logan Hill, a loaded Chicago & North Western coal train heads for Bill, Wyoming, on May 12, 1995. Powering the heavy train of Powder River Basin coal is C&NW GE AC4400CW No. 8828 and two C40-8s.
A pair of Union Pacific AC4400CW's lug a Long Beach, CA - Atlanta, GA stack train through the reverse 'S' curve near Winston, GA on NS #246. The fresh repaint was a nice surprise!
CSX mine run R233 crosses the first of two C&O built trestles in the small community of Hall, KY on CSX's Elkhorn & Beaver Valley Subdivision. Todays train has 107 SCWX empties for loading at Typo mine just outside of Hazard, KY.
Locomotive 6721 provides an extra push for a unit train of loaded coal cars rounding the curve in wintry Wheaton at MP 23.50 of the Union Pacific Railroad Geneva Subdivision.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 1000, f/6.3, 270mm, 1/500s
Chicago & North Western AC4400CW No. 8809 leads a 96-car MDVRO 01 manifest freight through the "wiggle", a set of reverse curves between Kyune and Colton, Utah the afternoon of Oct. 2, 1999. A three-unit helper with Rio Grande tunnel motors is visible near the third curve.
Traveling westbound through Thompson River Canyon west of Drynoch, British Columbia, is a Canadian National passenger train on July 5, 2004. The train is on Canadian Pacific rails, and is piloted by newly-minted CP AC4400CW No. 9807, with brightly-painted CN EMD E9A Nos. 102 and 103 trailing the big GE on a five-car train.
CSXT AC4400CW's #100 & #1 lead train Q541 across Allatoona Dam Road on the high fill between Cartersville and Emerson, GA. This scene has changed drastically with new construction.
Sunlights illuminates a westbound Union Pacific coal train as storms move east at Plainview, Colorado, on July 4, 2005.
KCSM AC4400CW's #4538 & #4519 lead Dallas, TX - Atlanta, GA intermodal train NS 26A through Waco, GA.
A CSX grain train that originated in Hamler, Ohio is seen passing the C&O cantilever signal bridge at Onion.
Southern Pacific AC4400CW No. 363 leads 84 coal loads along a private irrigation reservoir in Santaquin, Utah on May 31, 1997. The train loaded earlier that same day at Skyline, and would export to China through the new Port of Los Angeles coal terminal. The LAXT port shut down only six years later owing to unfavorable market conditions.
Union Pacific’s West Local, powered by Rio Grande GP30 Nos. 3002 and 3006, works Rocky Spur above an eastbound coal train led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 267, that is tied down in Rocky siding, on February 19, 1998. Only four of Rio Grande’s 28 GP30s ever received large billboard lettering on the long hood during repaints.
A Canadian Pacific westbound freight led by GE AC4400CW No. 9739 curves along the Thompson River just east of Spences Bridge, British Columbia, on July 22, 2011.
After getting a tip about Job 2 heading east out of Jackman around 0800, which is a very uncommon occurrence, my friend Derek and I set out in pursuit of it. CMQ AC4400CW 1006 is leading a pair of barns, and a GP38-2 with 75 cars across the massive bridge in Onawa, with Borestone Mountain looming in the distance.
An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train passes another laid up with locomotive issues on top of Soldier Summit, Utah, on September 7, 1995. Note sand on the rails in front of SP GE AC4400CW No. 317 left there when the train backed up its train in the clear. SP’s AC4400CWs were brand new at the time and had a few minor teething problems.
A BNSF coal train climbs the grade of Nebraska’s Crawford Hill at Breezy Point west of Belmont on the afternoon of July 11, 2008. The train is led by Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5935.
An eastbound Union Pacific coal train exits the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado, on October 2, 2008. The lead locomotive is a former Chicago & North Western GE AC4400CW that is now patched and renumbered UP No. 6718. The strange off-center yellow patch and UP logo on the nose is allowing a peek at the famous C&NW ball and bar logo.
CSX AC4400CW 470 leads M426 east across the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, Maine. The Pan Am stenciled “DANGER” sign is a clear reminder of this territory’s previous railroad. The unpatched CSX paint, though in no ways unique, is a nice change from that of the former CSX GEs Pan Am never professionally repainted and often used on these trains.
Colorado’s Minturn Yard is bustling with new Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs on September 5, 1995. To the right on the main line, a helper set trailed by No. 143 returns from pushing tonnage up the 3% grades east (south) of town, while SP No. 280 leads three others on the point of an eastbound coal load waiting for the helpers to pass so it can head east to add two sets of manned helpers to the heavy train. Another AC4400CW helper set led by No. 276 (not in the picture yet) will be cut into the 105-car train 58 cars back, while a second helper set led by No. 200 will be cut in 15-cars from the rear. Ten scarlet and gray AC4400CWs and three crews will soon muscle the hulking train up to the top of Tennessee Pass. Today, Minturn Yard is empty, rusting and sad…
Hitting the final rays of nose light, Job 2 rolls east at Shadow Lake, right at Greenville Junction, with AC4400CW 1006 leading the way. The 4400 HP GE is one of two that the CMQ has signed a five year lease on, and represents the most powerful engines to run on the Moosehead since CP 4744 used to occasionally traverse the International of Maine.
CSX loaded grain train G521 meanders down the Cartersville Sub nearing its destination of Rockmart, GA. This old SAL branch only sees a local and an occasional grain train.
Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 291 leads a westbound Union Pacific coal train out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on a snowy April 23, 2001.
A pair of Southern Pacific AC4400s send a bit of smoke skyward while exiting the east end of the passing siding at Avondale, CO on BNSF's Pueblo Sub. In another 10 or so miles this loaded coal train will exit the BNSF main at NA Junction and continue toward Kansas on UP's former Missouri Pacific Hoisington Sub. I always thought of this operation as Colorado's "other Joint Line". It certainly wasn't as scenic as the actual Joint Line, but it did host a fair amount of volume and variety. By this date UP had controlled SP for all of three months, so not much had changed outwardly. Change was coming however, and UP would cease operation over most of the Hoisington Sub a year or two after the SP merger. Today the former UP trackage between NA Jct and the Kansas border is known as the Towner Line. It has been rehabilitated by Colorado Pacific Railroad with the intent of running grain shuttle trains and handling railcar storage business.
SP 366 AC4400CW
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