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A westbound Santa Fe freight climbs Ash Hill at Klondike, California, while crossing the Mojave Desert on March 9, 1995. Powering the train is GE C40-8W No. 851, GE C44-9W No. 610 and EMD SD45-2B No. 5514.
On September 7, 1999, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rolls through Grizzly, Montana, after crossing Marias Pass on the southern border of Glacier National Park. Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5581 leads a Santa Fe C40-8W and two BN EMD SD40-2s power the eastbound train.
On the afternoon of May 28, 2000, Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 846, along with a pair of Heritage II C44-9Ws, leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest out of Rocky Colorado. The train is circling lesser-known “Little 10 Curve” and is being pushed with a pair of EMD SD40-2 manned helpers on the rear. In the foreground is Clay siding and the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision main line where the train will be in a few minutes.
CSX 7578 (C40-8) (built 9-89) leads a mixed freight westbound, toward Erie, Pa. on a cold February 25th 2016.
Santa Fe Railway C40-8W No. 883, dressed in "Super Fleet" livery, leads a westbound container train at Valentine, Arizona on Oct. 8, 1995.
An eastbound BNSF freight passes the old searchlight signals at mile 14.5 on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Leyden on April 20, 2003. The grass is greening up on this spring morning, but snow still coats the majestic mountains to the west.
With a 30-year-old C40-8W wearing it's as-delivered paint livery, M326 passes under the 100-year-old coaling tower at New Buffalo, MI, on its daily trek to Grand Rapids.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train heads east at Grizzly, Montana, on the beautiful spring morning of June 4, 2002. The snow-covered peaks of Glacier National Park dominate the background. Powering the train are three GE locomotives, with C40-8W No. 944 still wearing warbonnet colors of Santa Fe.
A veteran CSX GE C40-8W leads mixed freight Q694 under the C&O cantilever at OX Cabin with the snow covered Kentucky hills in the background.
Led by Santa Fe C40-8W No. 840, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight curves out of short Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the crystal clear afternoon of February 1, 2000.
An aging C40-8W CSX 7793 pops out of Brushy Creek Tunnel near Green Mountain, NC leading K428 north along the former Clinchfield.
Late in the afternoon of June 1, 1995, a westbound Santa Fe intermodal crosses Bridge 873.8 east of Sais in New Mexico’s Abo Canyon. A trio of GEs in Super Fleet warbonnet dress power the train—C40-8W Nos. 943 and 933, and C44-9W No. 631.
An autorack train, led by Conrail GE C40-8W No. 6098, approaches Chicago & North Western’s Proviso Yard at Northlake, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. On the left, C&NW EMD SD38-2 No. 6654 shoves cars.
Out of the fog. Conrail C40-8-6043, C40-8W-6147 & GP38-2s-8045, 8087 are E/B on track one of the Pittsburgh Line as they cross a private farm lane at MP148. The classic Pennsy signal bridge is long gone. A talking detector here announced this location as Mexico (which is across the Juniata River to the right), but the postal location is actually part of Port Royal.
Light snow is falling the day after Christmas in 1995, eight months after Union Pacific’s merger of Chicago & North Western at Butler Yard outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. UP has already planted its flag (literally) with a coal train powered with UP C40-8Ws on the main line, but the old guard still musters a pair of EMD SD18Rs to switch the yard.
The fields are plowed and the crops are planted on this spring day of April 26, 1997, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight led by a pair of Santa Fe locomotives hustles through Leeds, Illinois.
CSX SD60M #8781 & C40-8W #7916 fly through rural Ranger, GA with loaded pipe train K573 on a beautiful summer afternoon.
With a pair of painted C40s bracketing a patched C40-8W, POAY is doing every bit of trackspeed as they cruise by the old B&M station at Wells, headlights dimmed for the meet with counterpart AYPO. Sadly Pan Am hasn't repainted any of the widecab C40s, and with CSX looking to purchase the railroad, it doesn't seem likely that any will be painted.
On a gloomy morning, CSX ethanol train B779 winds its way into Rochester, New York and crosses over I-490 and the Inner Loop on grade separated trackage. Powered by all an GE Dash Series locomotive consist, ex-LMX C40-8W 7929 leads the way with glowing red marker lights.
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CSX Rochester Sub
Rochester, NY
CSX B779-01 (Ethanol Loads; Proviso, IL to Oak Island, NJ)
CSX 7929 C40-8W Ex. LMSX 711 Blt. 1994
CSX 9005 C40-9W Blt. 1994
CSX 7777 C40-8W Blt. 1992
Let’s turn back the clock to 1993 when new Super Fleet locomotives were arriving from General Electric. “Sticky Fresh” C40-8W 893 was leading westbound containers through the great Mojave Desert region at Homer, California on April 9, 1993. Good times!
An empty Union Pacific petcoke train slowly rolls through downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota and heads across the Mississippi River on the Roberts Street Lift Bridge. The power for the train takes the form of three CSX C40-8W's, which have been recently brought out of storage and are on the UP to repay horsepower hours. The lift bridge, built in 1913, features a Pratt Through Truss vertical lift span that is approached by eight deck girder spans on the south end. UP is currently in the process of submitting applications and developing plans for the replacement of the structure.
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UP Albert Lea Sub
Saint Paul, MN
UP OMWRP (Coke Empties; Midwest Energy - Superior, WI to Flint Hills Refinery - Roseport, MN)
CSX 7846 C40-8W Blt. 1993
CSX 7794 C40-8W Blt. 1992
CSX 7877 C40-8W Blt. 1993
Back when wide nose GEs were a novelty, fresh Conrail C40-8W's 6062 and 6060 roll south on the Monongahela Railway Waynesburg Southern Branch at MP W4 near Rogersville, PA with a train of Somerset Railroad SOM empty coal gondolas from the Somerset Power Plant in Somerset, New York destined for loading at Consol Coal's Blacksville #2 Mine at Wana, WV on October 27, 1990.
Fujichrome RF 50.
Never thought I'd be at the age where I'm looking at images I took in the 2010's, and remembering it wasn't "just" last year. Damn...
Anyway, from what I read up on, CSX has begun its march east on the Indianapolis Line east of Sidney, OH to replace the Conrail era Tri-lights. A notable location that will lose their signals are at Quincy, OH. I couldn't tell you how many weekends I spent visiting Quincy to just hang out and photograph trains passing these government railroad relics. It's a shame they're coming down, but such is progress.
In "better" times, a Q train lead by CSX 7356 departs Quincy as it crosses over on its westward journey.
With Glorieta Mesa providing a backdrop Santa Fe C40-8W 841 works upgrade east at Rowe, NM with the H-BADV1-14 on the ATSF Glorieta Subdivision on August 15, 1994. Kodachrome PKM 25.
New Dash8's westbound at West Holliday. This was previously published in a McMillan Publications calendar. 4-24-1992
A former ATSF C40-8W is now under CN ownership as it leads empty ethanol cans westbound through the historic downtown of Harpers Ferry, WV. The train is seen exiting the tunnel and is on the bridge crossing over the Potomac River.
Conrail's PIBE-4 was eastbound at Millerstown on a spring morning along the Middle Division in 1994.
Fresh C40-8W 6117 was leading a pair of older EMDs as a clear signal beckoned on a pending westbound move
CSXT 7880 leads a westbound empty coal train heading up towards Tunnel 1 into Plainview, CO with 8 other units trailing behind.
A Union Pacific C40-8W and two C40-8s pull a Hinkle, Oregon - Roper, Utah manifest freight through Collinston, Utah the afternoon of Aug. 6, 1998.
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train climbs Raton Pass at Gallinas, Colorado, on February 26, 1999, led by GE C40-8W No. 911 still nicely displaying Santa Fe’s famous warbonnet livery.
After meeting several eastbound trains at Hinkley, California, a westbound Santa Fe freight finally departs and storms toward Mojave led by Super Fleet GE C40-8W No. 863 on the afternoon of March 6, 1995.
A westbound Washington Eastern scoot, Washington state's term for a grain train ferrying wheat between smaller grain elevators and larger shuttle facilities, rolls west on Northern Pacific's former CW Branch near Reardan, Washington. Talk about a change of scenery.
Sunday was light engine move day on the River Line. Conrail ENS-102 heads north across Overpeck Creek with a typical consist of 15 light units. This move was a regular occurrence on Sunday afternoons at the time and was required due to an imbalance of traffic coming into the North Jersey terminal area.
Conrail ENS-102:
CR 6187 C40-8W
An old war wagon leading 165 westbound across the former VGN Altavista District seen here crossing Kates Creek Trestle.
CSXT 140 leads CN X382 through Hamilton West on a grey March morning.
Since the start of 2022 we have seen a resurgence of foreign leaders on CN in Southern Ontario. With this train I have got every Class 1 leading since January.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight curves through Grizzly, Montana, after crossing rugged Marias Pass on the southern border of Glacier National Park. Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5581 leads a Santa Fe C40-8W and two BN EMD SD40-2s.
Well worn CSX Dash 8 7764 leads empty coal train E900 as it catches a patch of sunshine, passing by the C&O signals at the SE Ranger control point in Ranger, West Virginia. This interlocking includes a spring switch, as indicated by the "S" sign on the switch motor.
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CSX Logan Subdivision
Ranger, WV
CSX E900-25 (Coal Empties; Russell, KY to Peach Creek, WV)
CSX 7764 C40-8W Blt. 1992
CSX 7253 AC44CM Ex. CSX 333 AC44CW Blt. 1998
Well worn CSX Dash 8 7764 leads empty coal train E900 as it takes the diverging route through the EEDT control point, the east end of the double track at the start of the Logan Sub in Barboursville, West Virginia. A classic set of C&O signals govern the control point at this gateway into Appalachian coal country.
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CSX Logan Sub
Barboursville, WV
CSX E900-25 (Coal Empties; Russell, KY to Peach Creek, WV)
CSX 7764 C40-8W Blt. 1992
CSX 7253 AC44CM Ex. CSX 333 AC44CW Blt. 1998