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June 1, 2019: The Southern Railway heritage unit (ES44AC GE) leads Norfolk Southern Freight Train NS 361 (Chattanooga, TN-Macon, GA) by C-Line Junction at CP Green near Silver Creek, GA on the Norfolk Southern Atlanta-North District.
Day-to-day traffic on CPKC's Fording River Sub consists solely of coal trains heading to and from one of the 4 mines along the line. However, on this gorgeous summer morning there's a unique visitor to the Elk Valley.
Here we have a welded rail train, shoving north from Sparwood to drop rail at several locations along the subdivision. The train is seen here at Greenhills, a radio-controlled, signalized island controlling the junction to the Greenhills Mine load-out.
CPKC Welded Rail Train
CP DRF-38 / SD60-2 #6241
CP SD40-2 #6031
CP DRF-38 / SD60 #6260
Greenhills, BC
August 25th, 2025
Canadian Pacific's train 470, raises the dust as they charge through Tamarack with a trio of classic EMD's singing a chorus.
February 3, 2020: An EMD SD70MAC engine leads CSX intermodal train Q143 (Cincinnati, OH-Jacksonville, FL) Southbound on the CSX W&A Subdivision at CP South Martin Marietta near Adairsville, GA.
On a sunny, spring morning in the Bayou City, BNSF 9038 leads a transfer job from the PTRA through the S-curve at CP Rusk on the Houston West Belt. This control point, along with adjacent S GH&H Jct, still hosts former HB&T searchlights. However, replacement Vaders have been up for a couple years now, so it's just a matter of time before retirement comes for the old signals.
T PTRA1 03R (Transfer- PTRA North Yard to BNSF New South Yard)
BNSF SD70ACe #9038
FXE SD70ACe #4019
BNSF ES44DC #7773
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #4381
Houston, TX
April 3rd, 2024
On a sunny, spring morning in the Bayou City, BNSF 9038 leads a transfer job from the Port Terminal Railroad Authority through the S-curve at CP Rusk on the Houston West Belt. This control point, along with adjacent S GH&H Jct, still hosts former HB&T searchlights. However, replacement Vaders have been up for over a year, so it's just a matter of time before retirement for the old signals.
T PTRA1 03R (Transfer- PTRA North Yard to BNSF New South Yard)
BNSF SD70ACe #9038
FXE SD70ACe #4019
BNSF ES44DC #7773
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #4381
Houston, TX
April 3rd, 2024
With a long manifest in tow, UP 8563 crosses over from Main 2 to Main 3 of the West Belt at Tower 71 in north Houston. The train will soon turn to the east to head for its destination of Englewood Yard.
MNPEW 24 (Manifest- North Platte, NE to Englewood Yard [Houston, TX])
UP SD70ACe #8563
UP C44ACCTE #5933
Houston, TX
March 4th, 2023
June 14, 2022: Norfolk Southern loaded ethanol train NS 64Q (Chicago, IL-Jacksonville, FL) splits the signals at Control Point Finley in Silver Creek, GA as it motors Southbound with NS 1067 Reading Heritage Unit leading the consist of tank cars. **This was the first time I've ever seen this engine in person making me very happy!
May 9, 2021: A pair of BNSF engines, lead by an AC4400CW GE engine sporting the H2 paint scheme, leads CSX manifest-freight train Q647 (Chicago, IL-Waycross, GA) by the control point signals on the north side of Emerson, GA on the CSX Western & Atlantic Subdivision.
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Sunset view from my window.
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CP 466 near Pinola was always my favorite spot on the Chicago Line in NW Indiana. The west end of a controlled siding that effectively turned this part of the ex NYC Water Level Route into a 3 track railroad, the location was punctuated by an impressive signal bridge spanning all 3 tracks. Here an east-bound Canadian Pacific haulage rights train, 34T, rolls under the bridge with 2 AC4400s leading a pair of leased SD40s. The bridge was removed and replaced with a modern cantilever in 2016.
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One of three SD60I's remaining in YN2 paint leads northbound manifest Q456 across McGirts Creek Bridge in Jacksonville, Fl, during the first minutes of daylight.
We're well into Blue Hour in St Paul as the DPU of CP 298 rolls through Hoffman on its way to Pigs Eye Yard.
CP 298 (Sutherland, SK to St Paul, MN)
(DPU) CP DRF-44 / AC4400CWM #8062
St Paul, MN
November 11th, 2020
The air temperature is zero degrees and falling after sunset as the afternoon light quickly fades away on the St. Croix sub. The westbound main has been blocked for over two hours by this empty oil train after the lead unit (CSX 137) lost all of its water and had to be shut down. A relief crew aboard a single replacement locomotive has been sent from LaCrosse yard to rescue the train and complete the trip to Northtown.
Visible in the distance are the block signals for the new high speed crossover installation at C.P. 3396. The tail lights on the road at left belong to a BNSF service truck and a taxi which has just arrived to pick up the crew.
Cochrane, WI
1/10/16
Out to find control points on a mini orienteering walk in the area known as Tvis Mølle/Tvis Kloster near Holstebro, Denmark - July 18, 2018.
May 16, 2020: Norfolk Southern Freight Train NS 177 (Elkhart, IN-Macon, GA) motors Southbound at CP Green in Silver Creek, GA with the Central of Georgia Heritage Unit proudly leading the run on a nice Spring morning in Dixie.
Watch video of the train here www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLyAcqUIMd8
A southbound sand train has a clear signal at North Weyawega as a dying storm approaches...I was out trying to get lightning shots but the line fell apart as it got close. I was left scrambling to find foreground interest as my original locations wouldn't work...then I realized I was close to this control point. The new LED signals that CN has been installing are definitely bright- I knew they were bright from the locomotive but didn't expect them to show up so well in photos.
Near Weyawega, WI May 17, 2017.
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Strangely this image was a difficult stitch. still some little problem at the top.
It looks like suddenly my no parralaxpoint has shifted. a lot of controlpoints are set by hand on this one.
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Not long after the sun crept high enough to clear nearby buildings, one of CP's heritage units brings an empty gas train through Niles Jct on UP's Houston Sub. These SP searchlights were some of the last remaining in Houston, though the prescene of replacement signals and a new control box were an omen of the future. The searchlights would finally come down in June 2025.
CPKC Empty Gas Train
CP SD70ACU / DRF-43 #7018
KCS SD70ACe #4043
Houston, TX
April 5th, 2024
(SEE & HEAR)---Conrail, CR 5605- 6713 eastbound double stacks passing under the Pennsy position lights at CP RADE, Radebaugh, Pennsylvania September 16, 1997. Jack D Kuiphoff photo & video
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fb, 8/04/2018, 9/27/2023. AR
Having been released from rebuild at GE/Wabtec's Ft Worth plant the month prior, the paint on UP 5862 looks phenomenal as it brings a Houston-bound manifest into the bottom of former MP Settegast Yard. The train took the NW connector track at Tower 87 in the distance, and is now crossing over at the adjacent CP's of Interstate Jct and S Settegast Jct to actually enter the yard.
MNLHO (Manifest- North Little Rock, AR to Houston, TX [Settegast Yard])
UP C44ACM #5862
UP C45ACCTE #7975
UP C44ACCTE #6011
(Mid-Train DPU) UP C45AH #8095
(Mid-Train DPU) UP C44ACCTE #5663
Houston, TX
June 7th, 2024
June 14, 2022: Norfolk Southern loaded ethanol tank car train Ns 64Q (Chicago, IL-Jacksonville, FL) rolls by the C-Line Junction at control point Green in Silver Creek, GA with NS 1067, Reading heritage unit, leading the way south on a muggy summer day in Dixie. This was my first time ever seeing this engine in person!
This former PRR position light finds itself unemployed as NS ripped out the connecting track this signal once guarded. Unfortunately, traffic on the former PRR mainline across eastern Ohio is down quite a bit since the Conrail split.
Crestline, OH
January 14th, 2022
Georgia Division trains 125 and 322 meet in downtown Atlanta, both being led by unique locomotives. Knoxville to Macon merchandise freight 125 is led by the Interstate heritage unit, GE ES44AC number 8105, while Macon to Chattanooga freight 322 is led by EMD SD70ACe number 1066, the New York Central heritage unit.
At the southeast end of the 2-mile long Galveston Causeway, at the aptly named CP Island (formerly Tower 96), an export ethanol train hops onto the former SP main on Galveston Island to access the Texas International Terminals export facility. The other track in the foreground leads to the BNSF and UP yards on the Island.
UEAWTG 19 (Unit Ethanol- Albert City, IA to Galveston, TX)
UP C44AC #6793
UP C44ACM #7025
(DPU) UP C45ACCTE #8010
Galveston, TX
March 23rd, 2021
Still standing more than 40 years after the Frisco was absorbed into the BN, this old searchlight still protects the diamond with NS's NA Division at CP Block 2 in north Birmingham. This is the far eastern reaches of BNSF's current system.
Birmingham, AL
October 23rd, 2023
Very strange ptguy could not find many controlpoints on this one
so I had to hand set some of them.
there was a lot of wind. so trees in hdr where pretty difficult!
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After leaving Pleasant Hill, I ran over to Belton, MO where I met up with one Mr. Nicholas Smith. From the MO Rt. 58 overpass, we shot the Q-KCNL working the south end of intermodal facility, otherwise known as the IFG.
More (slightly outdated) info on this facility can be found here: midamericafreight.org/rfs/network-inventory/rail/intermod...
October 17, 2021: A Union Pacific C45AH (ES44AH) GE engine leads a trio of UP engines, as they pull Norfolk Southern manifest-freight train NS 371 (Chattanooga, TN-Atlanta, GA) by the signals at the C-Line Junction of CP Green in Silver Creek, GA on a beautiful cool Fall afternoon in North Georgia.
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Having just passed Linwood Yard, Norfolk and Western class J #611 leans into a curve at control point "Duke", nearing Spencer, North Carolina, after a successful mainline test run from the North Carolina Transportation Museum to Greenboro and back.
And she's in the very middle of Times Square. For the entire 12 minutes I looked at her, she never turned her head (or even eyes) up for just one second.
I am pretty sure that's what older generations were saying of mine! Yet I can't help but wonder how such a concentration (hopefully she has it for work or study as well) may be an asset in a place that is potentially a source of trouble, given the many people gravitating there.
With the 29F clear of the crossovers and clear track ahead, NS 29K (Atlanta, Georgia - Dallas, TX) shatters the quite of Austell, Georgia at the stroke of midnight claiming the prize as first train of the day.
The SD70ACu leading, at first mistaken as a DC Gevo when they were doubling the train out, was a nice surprise.
NS 115 Makes its way downhill through Clapper with a pretty clean NS Gevo in the lead and 2 HZRXRail engines trailing behind
July 30, 2017: Norfolk Southern Intermodal Train NS 26Q (Rossville, TN-Atlanta, GA) passes through control point (CP) Green at the C-Line Junction near Silver Creek, GA with an SD70M-2 EMD engine leading the way South on a beautiful summer day in Dixie.
August 6, 2019: The "Honoring Our Veterans unit (SD60E EMD), leads Norfolk Southern Freight Train NS 175 (Chattanooga, TN-Macon, GA) as it passes the C-Line Junction at CP Green in Seney, GA.
With a joke from a friend turning into a "WTF?!" moment and a 35 min chase, CN grain train G886 passes through the track work at SE Ferryman siding on the Yazoo Subdivision. The wet weather was made better by the Ferromex ES44AC leading a BNSF GE as the grain train made the last few miles before Jackson and its crew change.