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With vibrant scrub oak on the slopes of nearby Mt. Ogden, Union Pacific's LAAP stack train meets maintenance of way at CP Strawberry near Mountain Green, Utah on Oct. 11, 1990. Leading the charge are UP C40-8s 9206, 9342, C40-8W 9373, and CNW SD60 8028.
A quartet of 'Super Fleet' GE locomotives pull Santa Fe's QNYLA intermodal train through the Coconino National Forest east of Flagstaff, Arizona on Sept. 28, 1994.
Against the backdrop provided by the San Francisco Peaks, Santa Fe C40-8W 939 leads the eastbound UPS-heavy Q-LANY1-19 at Darling, AZ on May 20, 1995.
A pair of former Chicago and North Western C44-9Ws on an eastbound stack train was running around a stopped Union Pacific coal load headed up by a UP C40-8W.
Westbound CSX train B774 crosses over the Monongahela River in Homestead, PA with a pair of YN2 C40-8Ws for power. I had just arrived back at my apartment and decided to check facebook while warming up dinner. I saw a heads up that this train was through Connellsville at 1600, and made my way here as fast as I could.
Four Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 8s lead an eastbound through Devore, CA into the hazy, setting sun as they begin their climb up Cajon Pass. So much has changed since this photo was taken in the Spring of 1996. A third main track was added through this area around 2005. By 2016 the grade crossing at which this photo was taken was removed when a new overpass was placed in service nearby.
ATSF 851 C40-8W
A pair of Conrail C40-8W's make up their auto rack train at Oak Island yard in Newark, NJ in February 1999. Once assembled, they will complete their crossing of the Upper Bay Bridge and head north up the River Line towards Selkirk, NY.
The westbound Washington Eastern scoot train rolls up on Reardan, Washington on the former Northern Pacific CW Branch. Chartered as the Central Washington Railroad, the branch was first surveyed and built in the late 1880s to compete with the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern; the town of Reardan is named after a Central Washington engineer.
The branch has changed owners four times since the BN merger of 1996; it is now owned by Jaguar Transport Holdings which acquired the Washington Eastern from The Western Group in November, 2020. Jaguar brought in these ex-Conrail C40-8Ws replacing a fleet of SD40-2s.
CN A439 races through the farmland of Komoka on the outskirts of London. With CN rapidly retiring their aging fleet of Dash 8s, these "Blue Devil" units are not long for this world, at least under CN ownership.
Train: CN A439 with IC 2456 (C40-8W) and CN 2202 (C44-9W).
CN Strathroy Subdivision
Komoka, ON
A pair of Belt Railway of Chicago C424s enter UP's former Chicago and North Western Proviso yard in 1998.
Passing a Conrail/LMS C40-8W and a SD40-2, both the Belt Alcos and Conrail itself will be gone within a year.
It seems almost criminal that a Belt C424 hasn't made its way to the IRM. I wouldn't mind a LMS C40-8W saved either.
CSX manifest Q504 31 splits the intermediate color position lights at Osgood, IN, en route to Cincinnati on the Indiana Subdivision, the former high-stepping mainline of the B&O to St. Louis.
Early in the morning of March 9, 1995, a westbound Santa Fe stack train speeds across the Mojave Desert at Lavic, California.
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight on Union Pacific’s Moffat Subdivision has a set of A-B-A warbonnets just west of Rollinsville, Colorado, on February 6, 1999. Powering the train is GE C40-8W No. 829, leading EMD GP60B No. 338 and C40-8W No. 811, only this one has large BNSF lettering on its flanks.
Six months after they rolled out of Erie, two Conrail C40-8W’s lead a westbound train out of Allentown at East Penn Junction, PA.
A former Conrail C40-8W smokes it up leading a hotshot intermodal west under the former New York Central signal bridge at Yosts, NY on the Chicago Line (CSX Mohawk Subdivision).
CSXT 7332 C40-8W (ex-CR 6132)
Earlier in the same week as my previous photo, the Monday edition of 611 is seen hustling south over the Millers River in Millers Falls. Two of the New England Central's fleet of ex-CSX C40-8Ws, the 4067 and 4065, are seen powering the 58 car train south on this day.
Union Pacific C40-8W No. 9373 leads an American President Lines stack train through Tintic Valley between Lofgreen and Boulter, Utah on Oct. 23, 1994.
Conrail "Q-Cab" 6114 leads an eastbound intermodal train through Palmer, PA on the Boston Line in Feburary 1998. To the left is the former joint Boston & Albany-Central Vermon station.
After finishing their switching in Brattleboro, southbound 611 is seen departing on the long causeway south of the yard, heading to Palmer. A pair of the sharply painted former C40-8Ws, 4067 and 4065, are seen leading the 58 car train as they parallel the Connecticut River on the right.
Conrail, CR, SD60i 5621 -C40-8W 6051, with a southbound on the Mon-line at Courtney, Pennsylvania, Thursday March 11, 1999. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
#5621, built 4/1995.
#6051, built 5/1990.
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New England Central's southbound 611 is seen running south alongside neighboring Berkshire & Eastern at Millers Falls. A trio of NECR's ex-CSX C40-8Ws, with 4064 leading, are powering the train today, with about seventy cars trailing. About halfway back on Track 2 in the middle one can see the crossover installed between the NECR and B&E once G&W took over the former Pan Am west end.
Doug Harrop Photography • October 11, 1991
UP 9356, a GE C40-8W model, was the first General Electric comfort cab on the Union Pacific roster. Doug caught it passing the old water tower on an eastbound Z train at Bitter Creek, Wyoming.
Built in December 1989, UP 9356 became the first of many hundreds (if not thousands) of comfort cab GEs on the UP roster. At some point, UP retired 9356 and sold it to Larry's Truck of and Electric of Lordstown, Ohio, who scrapped it.
The sad, unfortunate demise of 9356 . . .
TELE VIEW: Viewed from the PA Rt. 53 overpass, Conrail C40-8Ws 6161 & 758 are W/B on track four of the Pittsburgh Line with train BEPI-2 (Bethlehem, PA to Pittsburgh, PA).
Staying with the CN run through theme - this time westbound SECN - seen rounding the curve at CP 286 in East Syracuse on 25 January 1998 with the right leader up front - CN GP40-2LW No. 9464 plus an LMS C40-8W and Conrail SD50.
In the background hills above the train is the Clark Hill subdivision, which used to be farm fields I played in as a kid, and right behind that, the neighborhood I grew up in, always within earshot of the mainline.
On a unseasonably warm sunny afternoon, an Illinois Central “Blue Devil” slams the diamonds at JB Tower with train A490 in tow.
Conrail C40-8Ws 6195 & 6225 are on the point of empty hopper train XCG-80W on track two of CR's Pittsburgh Line, Philadelphia Division. XCG is heading to West Brownsville, PA.
WIDE VIEW: Viewed from the PA Rt. 53 overpass, Conrail C40-8Ws 6161 & 758 are W/B on track four of the Pittsburgh Line with train BEPI-2 (Bethlehem, PA to Pittsburgh, PA).
Conrail TV-212 passes the interlocking at CP Bound Brook as it appeared in the late 1990s. In the days before the second main track was reinstalled, the interlocking was fairly simple. This was the east end of the controlled siding that extended west to Port Reading Jct. The Port Reading Secondary joined the controlled siding at left and there were no crossovers, meaning a train running to or from the secondary had to use the siding to/from Port Reading Jct. At right, the interchange track to NJT joins the main just east of the controlled siding. Today two main tracks are in place here, as well as two sets of crossovers. The "212" train symbol existed for decades. It ran on roughly the same schedule, on the same route in the Conrail era, with Conrail adding the requisite "TV" to NS' symbol for operation east of Hagerstown, MD. Only recently has NS eliminated the 212 symbol as part of an intermodal train symbol overhaul (if that's what you'd call it).
Conrail TV-212
CR 6274 C40-8W
Back in 2018 when Butler saw more traffic, a loaded sand train with a patched SP AC44 gets ready to depart Butler, while a manifest with an NS C40-8W works Butler.
The NS Dash 8 is probably a pile of razor blades and the SP AC44 is probably painted in UP by now.
CSX C40-8W's 7905 and 7764 lead local L391 north across Gum Lick Trestle on their way to Atkinson Yard in Madisonville.
Union Pacific C40-8W-9402 & SD60M-6191 are leading an E/B auto rack train on track one of the Laramie Sub at MP 548.6. Just ahead, they will enter the west portal of Hermosa Tunnel.
A disinterested horse plods along as an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rumbles through Bison, Montana, while crossing Marias Pass on the southern border of scenic Glacier National Park on September 7, 1999. Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5581 leads a Santa Fe C40-8W and two BN EMD SD40-2s.
Conrail C40-8W 6189 led train PIOI-8 rolling along the former Reading at Hummlestown in 1995.
At the time, the influx of six axle motors was changing the motive power scene across the vast Conrail empire.
Good old Big Blue in its final prosperous years... on 23 May 1997 a westbound auto rack train leaves the Syracuse skyline in the background, behind a solid six-unit set of six-axle units, with C36-7 No. 6639 leading an SD50, a C30-7, and three C40-8W wide nose units, two of them with LMS lettering.