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A nice line up of matching painted Reading and Northern power can be seen on the engine house tracks north of the modern diesel shop at the railroads Port Clinton headquarters.
Lined up awaiting the call from L to R are:
RBMN 802 (EMD SW8 blt. Dec. 1950 as LV 253)
RBMN 5049 (EMD SD50M blt. Dec. 1984 as MP 5049 in UP yellow)
RBMN 1546 (EMD SW1500 blt. Feb. 1970 as EMDX 112 later IU 28 and CR 1606)
Amazingly this classic looking shop structure is decidedly modern dating from 1996 when the RBMN chose this site for their new centralized headquarters and shop complex. When the Reading Cluster was acquired from Conrail in 1990 nothing was here other than a lonely unsignaled switch in the middle of the woods. Everything seen here was created from whole cloth...impressive indeed!
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
Saturday June 19, 2021
Former Milwaukee Road SD40-2 174 had been patched for the Soo Line and renumbered as SOO 6347. It would be sold to EMDX and finally found itself as Wheeling and Lake Erie 7017.
It was seen in its bandit paint on an eastbound Soo Line trailer train heading for Chicago passing through Clinton, Iowa in 1988.
A trio of EMDX Oakway SD60s lead BNSF R-CHI4503 east through Western Springs Illinois on the BNSF Chicago Subdivision.
EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7208 leads Norfolk Southern hotshot Intermodal Train 220 east through Tallapoosa, GA.
A trio of GP38-2's lead the charge as the Finger Lakes Railway's GS-2 job climbs the grade out of Martisco, New York and over a large fill that spans the valley of Ninemile Creek. This is the westbound return of the GS-2 job, bringing cars from Solvay back to Geneva with work in Auburn along the way.
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FGLK Auburn Road
Martisco, NY
FGLK GS-2 (Local; Geneva, NY to Solvay, NY Turn)
FGLK 2004 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2227, EMDX 792, CR 7992, PC 7992 Blt. 1972
FGLK 2001 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2197, HLCX 3838, INRD 3838, INRD 3808, NS 5389, CR 8270 Blt. 1979
FGLK 2003 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2104, EMDX 198 GP40, SOO 2027, MILW 2027, MILW 154 Blt. 1967
Atn z390 heads south from Gadsden AL to Birmingham with the 1st run of the emdx sd70aces as they used 1201-1205 for about 4 months. Ex scl track trackage
BN 9280 West passes Division St. as it departs St. Paul, MN back in July 1998. Usually it was an EMD Oakway that wrecked a nice matched Cascade Green consists on coal trains back on the BN/BNSF, but this time it was an EMDX SD40-2. The blue SD40-2s weren't common in coal or ore service. This BNSF COLX empty has just departed Dayton's Bluff, after the CP brought it up the River Sub., and the fresh crew will take the empties back home to Willmar.
While the 2 units that will act as mid DPU's for FXE's QVCRO block the Morelos line waiting for the lead engines to bring their train out of Siding 1, a southbound CPKC manifest train roars by on Linea B with a KCCP consist.
Cuautitlan, EdoMex.
P97 crawls into town under dramatic skies with an ES40DC and one of the recently acquired ex EMDX ACes for power. Overhead, a large flock of seagulls (billions of birds one could say) are fleeing the bridge where they had been resting just before the train's arrival.
An Oakway trails a GEVO on another mixed freight, with a high wide load up front.
Locomotives: BNSF 7606, EMDX 9081
8-26-11
Sibley, MO
NS 220 lead by EMDX SD70ACeT4 7233 arrives at Inman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia on the morning of March 8, 2020.
WAMX 6033, an ex-UP SD60M that's now under the employ of WATCO displays its new-look paint scheme at Mid-America Car in Kansas City. I can't say that I'm particularly fond of the scheme, as I think that the nose would benefit from having some more yellow on it, be it a solid panel, stripes, or chevrons, but it is what it is, I guess. WAMX 6032 was there as well, still in UP paint, so I would assume that it will receive the same paint in short order. Ed.: These would never actually leave MAC in this paint, as the design was rejected by management. So, enjoy (?) this rare view of it!
In addition, BNSF SD40-2s no. 1858 & 1618 are siting outside of the shop waiting on a fresh coat of orange.
A BNSF grain train led by an EMD lease unit pauses along the Mykawa Subdivision south of Houston, TX at sunset. The rails are former Santa Fe and the lead unit is former Milwaukee Road.
EMDX 6345 SD40-2 (ex-MILW 172)
I went out to shoot some fall color, and ended up finding a different shade of yellow.
EMDX SD70ace-T4 #7219 trails on westbound CN Train M311 at Carvel Alberta.
The 7219 is one of four units currently on the property. The last time I shot these units was in 2020, with CN passing on any orders at the time.
A pair of Oakway SD60's bracket an SD40-2 in front of the depot for a crew change with BNSF H NTWMEM1 21A. Once they swap out they'll be headed for Memphis down the former Frisco, today the BNSF River Sub.
I'm not exactly sure why I was in Chaffee that day, but you certainly won't be seeing this any time soon.
Locomotives: EMDX 9009, BNSF 7148, EMDX 9070
10-22-2004
Chaffee, MO
Conrail local train WCDA has pulled up into their Sheldon Secondary so that southbound Soo Line train #204 can pass in 1986. Soo Line had just acquired the Milwaukee Road and they hadn't started 'Banditizing" their locomotives yet.
By 1986, the siding at Sheff was in very bad condition. Derailments had happened so they spiked both ends until further notice (which would last til the end). So, trains needing to pass had to either head up into the Sheldon or Fowler secondaries here, which I saw more than once.
NYC Sheff "F" tower once stood near the tree above the caboose at left at the intersection of NYC's Egyptian Line and NYC's Big 4 line between Chicago and Cincinnati.
This great photo was taken by Brian Knight.
Milw SD40-2 #27 was built by EMD in July of 1973. The Soo Line acquired it and threw a bandit scheme on it and numbered it 6311, followed by EMDX #6311, NREX #6311 and finally GMTX #3312. Locomotive was still running and looking beautiful as of early 2021 at latest I saw. Here is a great roster shot of it as of 2020.
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Milw SD40-2 #30 was built by EMD in July of 1973. The Soo Line acquired it and threw a bandit scheme on it and numbered it 6314, followed by EMDX #6314, WE #6314 and finally WE #7026. Locomotive is still running and looking beautiful as of today. Here is a great roster shot of it as of June 2025.
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SB Milw train #204
CR Local train WCDA
Sheff, rural Benton County, Indiana
CR Danville Secondary MP IH 66.45
CR Sheldon Secondary MP 211.85
1986
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Brian Knight photograph.
Been to hard working on Beecherfest Show to do any shooting.So Im uploading this shot of NS train 055 from last year.EMDX/Cat demo #1201 leads the train east at Rt.157 Centerville ILL.
In honor of Armed Forces Day we have a military train passing through Tamora, Nebraska in December of 2020. Thank you to all the men and women serving our country!
Alabama & Tennessee River Railway Freight Train Z389 departs Boyle’s Yard ( CSX’s Birmingham Terminal ) headed back to Gadsden, AL. after interchanging with CSX.
Rebuilt EMD GP40PH-2 4906 was built by EMD in 1969 as EMDX 25 and went on to the Penn Central and Conrail as their 3273. MPI rebuilt it into its present self and it now hauls commuters around Jersey and New York.
EMDX 7101, the GP22ECO demonstrator, shoves a cut of borax cars from the facility in Boron, CA into US Borax, deep in the Port of Los Angeles. Engine is ex KCS exx CR originally PC GP40 3173.
A clean Conrail Quality SD45-2 leads CSX Q432 north on the River Sub at Teaneck, NJ. There is a lot going on in this relatively common photo of two trains meeting at Teaneck. First, this is post-Conrail split, so it was uncommon to have an NS-owned SD45-2 is leading a CSX train. Months after the split, it seems 6654 had yet to be renumbered, making it still "pure Conrail". 6654 would soon be "patched" as NS 1700. It would be repainted twice, first in a coat of standard NS black and white and eventually in Erie Lackawanna gray, maroon and yellow. I believe Q432 had been Conrail symbol "OISE" (today's CSX Q434). The trailing unit is Electro-Motive leasing 6411, a former Conrail SD40. Finally, the center siding between Teaneck and Bogota was clearly still under construction. The line was graded and ties installed, but rail and ballast had yet to come.
CSX Q432:
CR 6654 SD45-2 (ex-EL 3669)
EMDX 6411 SD40 (ex-PC/CR 6263)
EMDX Tier3 ACe demos bring CSX coal train N290 across the SCG Line while rolling out the last few miles to Georgia Power's Plant Bowen near Stilesboro, Georgia. August 23. 2013
CD Sub manifest Q316 has its normally huge assortment of power on the head end for transfer to the Cumberland Shops as it crosses the Ohio into Covington, Kentucky. What isn't normal is the lead power namely the EMDX Demonstrators which have been running on the LCL sub toward Nashville and back most of the Summer. After being worked on in Paducah these units are heading east to work a different territory unknown to me. Hopefully they'll be back working out of Cincy once again.
EMDX SD70ACe-T4 demonstrators 1606 and 1605 lead a CN X338 up the Chicago Sub, towards the St Charles Air Line at 16th Street Tower.
NS train 220 pulls ahead to spot another cut of cars in the receiving yard at Inman. Leading is EMDX 7233, an SD70ACe-T4 being leased by Kansas City Southern that, ironically, was originally built as part of an order for NS before they cancelled it. 3-8-20
Led by GP40-2 505, a US Sugar cane job rolls through the yard at the mill in Clewiston, Florida with a train load of freshly harvested sugar cane for processing. On the adjacent track, a yard job with a GP11 has just cut away from the rip track after spotting an empty ballast hopper here.
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USSC Sugar Yard
Clewiston, FL
USSC CRJ1 (Sugar Cane Loads; Clewiston, FL to Cane Fields - Clewiston, FL Turn)
USSC 505 GP40-2 Ex. MPEX 102 RP39-2C, VRE V02, CSX 6712 GP40, SBD 6712, SCL 1557, SAL 642 Blt. 1967
Unknown Symbol (Yard Job; Clewiston, FL)
USSC 304 GP11 Ex. USSC 8752, IC 8752, ICG 8752, IC 9198 GP9 Blt. 1957
Unassigned
USSC 501 GP40-2 Ex. LLPX 9908, EMDX 196 GP40, SOO 2004, MILW 184 Blt. 1966
USSC 502 GP40-2 Ex. LLPX 9909, EMDX 197 GP40, SOO 2019, MILW 193 Blt. 1966
As the first train on the line after winter storm Harper, the Finger Lakes GS-2 starts busting snow piles as it departs the yard in Geneva and crosses Serven Road.
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Finger Lakes Railway
Geneva, NY
FGLK GS-2 (Local; Geneva, NY to Solvay, NY Turn)
FGLK 2002 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2102, UP 883, CN 9305 GP40, CN 4005 Blt 1966
FGLK 2003 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2104, EMDX 198 GP40, SOO 2027, MILW 2027, MILW 154 Blt. 1967
FGLK 2001 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2197, HLCX 3838, INRD 3838, INRD 3808, NS 5389, CR 8270 Blt. 1979
FGLK 2004 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2227, EMDX 792, CR 7992, PC 7992 Blt. 1972
Alabama Southern Train 112, the Reform, AL., to Artesia, MS., turn, heads West through Ethelsville, AL.
The EMDX 7209 and the two KCS Locomotives had been used a couple of days prier to pull an Oil Train to Hunt Oil in Tuscaloosa, AL., then got turned back on ABS Train 112 to KCS.
Alabama Southern Train 112, the Reform, AL., to Artesia, MS., turn heads west as they pass through Bent Oak, MS.
The EMDX 7209 and the two KCS Locomotives had been used a couple of days prier to pull an Oil Train to Hunt Oil in Tuscaloosa, AL, then got turned back on ABS Train 112 to KCS.
EMDX 7208 and CP 7008 share the fuel rack with CP 6223 at Nahant Yard. The EMD/CP pair brought in 473 from Bensenville and would go back out later in the evening on 472.
June 8, 2021
A GECX ET44AC, CN ET44AC, and EMDX SD70ACe-T4 sit tied down in Virginia Minnesota with a sand train.
After waiting for permission to enter the Macon Terminal, NS 27W is passing CP North Macon as it passes Rose Hill Cemetery. Leading the way is SD70ACe-T4 demonstrator unit 7208. 7-10-20
One of the leased Progress Rail SD70ACe-T4's is on the point of KCS train D-FPKC-05 lumbering down Main Track 4 of the KCT East-West Corridor at Penn Ave outside of KC's Union Station.
At Santa Fe JCT, this train will turn the corner to head north up the KCT North-Corridor and then across the Hannibal Bridge to BNSF's Murray Yard. Once on the BNSF, this will become BNSF train U-KCSFTL1-06M. This is one of several military trains bound for Fort Lewis near Tacoma, WA. 12/6/20.
A pair of former EMDX leasers with nothing but tiny "WE" stencils on the cabs bring train 214 east through Bolivar on June 13, 2020, still looking nearly identical to their days roaming class 1 railroads as leasers in the 90's. It's always nice when the dwindling number of non-tigers get matched up these days, plus there was just a sliver of nose light left by the time they got here, which will get tougher to pull off as summer moves in.
CN 271 is lead through Brantford behind a decent pairing. CN 3221 and EMDX 1605. I'm glad I went out for this one!
Lets go way back more than 13 years to my only trip to date to BNSF's northern transcontinental mainline on the former Great Northern Railway. Three spectacular nights were spent at the Izaak Walton Inn that included a fabulous cross country ski tour in Glacier National Park, some great meals, fun winter railfanning, and even a ride on BNSF's Essex Helper set one evening....
Before heading toward Essex some train chasing east of the mountains was had in less than ideal conditions. The snow is blowing fiercely and the temperature is NEGATIVE nine degrees, which may explain why this crew was heard on the radio trying to talk the dispatcher out of stopping at Browning for a pickup. Alas, they lost the argument, hence they are seen threading through the turnout at the east end of Browning siding at about MP 1121.9 on BNSF's Hi Line Sub. In the house track across from the Browning depot were two autoracks that one presumes were bad order set outs that had since been repaired.
This view was taken from the US Route 2/89 overpass and features a classic set of power that certainly can't be seen today. BNSF 8266 (EMD SD75M blt. Feb. 1996) leads EMDX 9081 (Oakway leasing EMD SD60 blt. Dec.1986) and BNSF 822 (GE C40-8W blt. Apr. 1992 still in as delivered Santa Fe warbonnet paint).
Near Browning - Blackfeet Reservation
Glacier County, Montana
Sunday December 21, 2008