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Former EMDX SD70ACe-T4 demonstrator #1502 leads this northbound UP stack train as first of UP's Tier 4 class, although considered just another SD70AH by the railroad. The train is joining UP's Springfield Sub at "Q Tower" in East St. Louis, IL while a southbound stack train waits for the light and permission through single-tracked "Hole in the Wall."
I can have fall colors, and I can have sun...but I can't have both.
EMDX Oakway SD60 9010 leads two other Oakways and a manifest east under CB&Q signals in Westmont, IL back in October of 2011. The Oakways, as well as the CB&Q signal bridge are all long gone.
Progress Rail/Electro-Motive Diesel EMDX 7218 SD70ACe-T4 in storage at KCS A yard with the city and the arch in the background on a rainy day in East St. Louis, Illinois on May 21, 2022.
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NS 220 lead by EMDX SD70ACeT4 7233 arrives at Inman Yard in Atlanta, Georgia on the morning of March 8, 2020.
With a trio of former FURX Lease SD40-2's, Wheeling & Lake Erie 612 climbs upgrade after departing Rook Yard and crosses the trestle over Edgebrook Ave. and runs parallel to the South Busway through Brookline, Pennsylvania.
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WE Pittsburgh Sub
Brookline, PA
WE 612 (Rook, PA to Clariton, PA)
WE 6991 SD40-2 Ex. CITX 3068, GCFX 3068, GTW 5929 Blt. 1970
WE 6350 SD40-2 Ex. CITX 3055, GCFX 3055, CP5659 Blt. 1973
WE 6985 SD40-2 Ex. FURX 3028, EMDX 6419 SD40, EMDX 419, CR 6295, PRR 6042 Blt. 1966
A KCS ES44AC and an EMDX SD70ACe-T4 bring BNSF train G-CBLKCM3-28A on Track 901 at Olive St. as it enters the west end of KCS's Knoche Yard.
This is a KCS haulage rights train that ran into town via the BNSF St. Joseph Sub. These grain loads originate at Council Bluffs, IA. 5/29/21.
Union Pacific 4766, an SD40-2 locomotive, has an interesting story to tell. The unit was built Southern Pacific SD45 No. 8837 by EMD in Sept. 1966. In 1981 it was rebuilt in SP's GRIP program at Sacramento, California as an SD44R, essentially an SD40-2 in an SD45 body. At the same time, it was repainted in an adaptation of SP's historic Daylight paint scheme. After the merger with UP in 1996, it was renumbered and repainted UP 4766. By 2007, it was retired from the UP roster and sold to EMD, becoming EMDX 2816. The 4766 is pictured leading UP's Roper - Provo LJI42 local through the Salt Lake Valley with 77 cars on May 26, 2000.
As VIA 71 departs with a wave, M39491 13 slips in behind them with CN 3106,, EMDX 7235, CN 2904, CN 3124, CN 3803, and 173 cars.
A pair of Canadian National SD60's snake their way through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction, Michigan on the point of L549. In the lead is CN 5400, the class leader for CN's fleet of former Oakway SD60's.
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CN Marquette Range Sub
Eagle Mills, MI
CN L549 (Gladstone, MI to Eagle Mills, MI Turn)
CN 5400 SD60 Ex. GMTX 9013, EMDX 9013, OWY 9013 Blt. 1986
CN 5452 SD60 Ex. EMDX 9009, OWY 9009 Blt. 1986
KCS Eastbound Freight Train M-SHAR passes through Control Point 554 as they skirt along Cross Lake in Shreveport, LA. about to duck under I-220 at the HWY 173 exit. This days lead locomotive is a Progress Rail Tier 4 SD70ACe EMDX 7207 of which KCS took delivery of in 2019, they are built with a Caterpillar Engine, which is the reasoning for the yellow paint scheme.
EMDX SD90MAC-H 8204 was one of the center attractions at an EMD Open House event in 1997. Built as a 6000hp demonstrator, the colorful paint scheme soon succumbed to the yellow and grey of new owner Union Pacific.
It has since been scrapped and a General Electric ES44AC-H now holds the number 8204.
Golden rays of sun hit CSX R573 as they barrel south through Gallatin, Tennessee with a pair of EMDX SD70ACe-T4 demo units. I guess these tests paid off, as CSX ordered 10 of these a few years later.
An RJ Corman local cuts between old and new buildings as it heads back towards the yard in Lexington, Kentucky after switching out the Standlee Hay Company. A GATC GP38-2 and an ex CSX GP15 lead the train, while an RJCC RS23BD brings up the rear.
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RJCC Old Road Subdivision
Lexington, KY
Unknown Symbol (Local; Lexington, KY)
GMTX 2230 GP38-2 Ex. EMDX 799, PC 7999 Blt. 1972
RJCC 1561 GP15-1 Ex. PRLX 1561, CSX 1561, CR 1675 Blt. 1979
(Rear) RJCC 2017 RS23BD Blt. 2017
Not a common sight, three different models of SD units from EMD lead a yard transfer over the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton. Leading are two SD70 Tier 4 demo units, followed by two SD70M-2 units, and finally an SD40-2. I'll take that consist. December 3, 2017
Canadian National SD60-5433 (built in December of 1986 as EMDX/Oakway 9079) is playing "one unit wonder" as it rolls into town with an E/B covered hopper train on CN's Waterloo Sub.
The Great Lakes Central's OSTN pulls out on to the connection from the GLC's Cadillac District to the HESR's Owosso Sub as it puts together its southbound train in the GLC's San Yard east of town in Owosso, Michigan. Once the train is ready to depart south, they will run over the HESR to Durand, then briefly over CN before diverging back onto home rails for the rest of the run down to Ann Arbor.
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GLC Cadillac District
Owosso, MI
GLC OSTN (Local; Owosso, MI to Ann Arbor, MI Turn)
GLC 399 GP38-2 Ex. LLPX 2336, UP 1963, CR 8031, PC 8031 Blt. 1972
GLC 398 GP38-2 Ex. LLPX 2331, EMDX 821, CR 8021, PC 8021 Blt. 1972
GLC 386 SD35 Ex. MRL 705, IMRL 705, MRL 1553, NW 1553 Blt. 1965
Full house in the Guadalajara Roundhouse, leased and owned power. Zebras, Diablas, a sole GECX Dash 9 and PRLX/EMDX Tier 4 ACe's can be spotted occupying most of the tracks inside it.
The 9143 status is used solely as lease unit to industries, it spent several years at the Cemez plant in Tepeaca (visible by the weathering it has), and currently it's (or was, I'm not fully up to date to it) leased to an industry somewhere in Sonora.
Guadalajara, Jalisco.
EMDX SD70ACe tier3 demos power CSX Stilesboro, Plant Bowen coal train N290 by the Golf Course on August 23, 2013 at Cartersville, Georgia.
Two spotless Oakway / EMDX SD60’s on one of their first “in service” runs, lead two BN units on train 281TT002 at Milepost 649.9 near Larkspur, Colorado on November 16, 1986. Operating on the shared Rio Grande-Santa Fe Joint Line, (where BN has trackage rights) at a location approximately halfway between Denver and Colorado Springs, Larkspur is ten miles from the top of the fifty-two mile uphill climb to the Palmer Divide, located at Palmer Lake, CO.
Leading the slow but steady moving loaded coal train are OWY 9022 and 9010, (built in October & November, 1986) followed by Burlington Northern C30-7 5512 (built in April, 1977) and SD40-2 7937, (built in July, 1978). Larkspur, at 6726’ in elevation is located in the foothills of Southern Douglas County with a population of just 234 (2000 census) and has had a continuously operating Post Office since the Denver & Rio Grande built it's line through here in 1871.
A brand new EMD SD70ACe-T4 leads UP Train MNPPB 18 through Manchester Avenue at MP 287.61 of the UP Coffeyville Sub. en route from North Platte, NE to Pine Bluff, AR with 47 loads, 50 empties, 7679 tons, and 5983 feet.
It's taken a while to get one of these in the wild, but despite the issues reported with the initial deliveries, this one seemed to be moving the train right along with ease, making plenty of Tier 4 EMD 1010 4 stroke sound as it went. I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to hearing that come from an EMD.
3012 was the first production EMD Tier 4 to be delivered to a customer and at the time was the lowest numbered one on the roster. Eventually UP will have at least 100 of these making up their 1xt order, numbered 3000-3099. The former EMDX 1500 and 1600 class demonstrators will eventually become 3000-3011.
Locomotives: UP 3012, BNSF 7736
4-19-17
Kansas City, MO
EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7208 leads Norfolk Southern hotshot Intermodal Train 220 east through Tallapoosa, GA.
On our way back to N. Kingstwon, RI, where we were staying, we made a quick surgical strike of P&W's Plainfield facility. 9014, currently working for P&W, was built in 11/86 as EMDX 9014, then to Oakway 9014, then to the GATX lease fleet. Day one complete.
I decided to dig into some of my now-old shots of the BNSF 1460, aka, the Beep, and here's the first in the series.
These were all shot in my first few years in Topeka (2006-09), and photographed on an early digital point-and-shoot camera. However, the unit left Topeka for California in 2009, so I'm happy to have the in-service photos of it that I do.
Here, the Beep is on the east side of the Shops with an EMD Lease GP38-2, and an ex-BN GP39-2. The EMD unit would eventually get rebranded as a GMTX unit and shipped to the South Chicago Indiana Harbor, while the 39 would receive a fresh coat of orange in 2010.
5/6/2009
Sneaking through West Wye - Air Line JCT and up to Southwest JCT on the KCT as it leaves Knoche Yard is KCS train M-KCSH-26 led by one of the Progress Rail SD70ACe-T4's leased to the KCS. 12/26/20.
Former EMDX 9088 rocks a huge L567 north for Ranier with plenty of empties to keep the paper/forest production going around the International Falls area.
Now on the KCS Pittsburg Sub., KCS Train M-VNKC-02 slides around the curve south of the KCT Diamond at Sheffield making its way through the area bound for Grandview IFG with the intermodal traffic on the rear. The manifest will come back north to Knoche Yard. This move completes the routing from the KCS Mexico Sub., Ex-Gateway Western, to their north-south main via the Kansas City Terminal.
As if Rex Kwon Do wasn't flashy enough, that Progress Banana really livened the place up this morning.
Locomotives: KCS 4006, EMDX 7205
2-3-20
Kansas City, MO
On a hot, muggy and hazy morning, two SD40E's provide dynamic braking on a loaded ballast train as it flies down the west slope meeting a heavy eastbound working up hill under the PL's at Lily that are to fall forever today June 10, 2019.
after recently re editing some photos I selected a few I liked so heres one of them. CN 8101 Ex EMDX demonstrator CN purchased leads a SB manifest with a great consist south through Spaulding on a freezing January night
A trio of three Tier 4 emission engines (two EMD, one GE) add color to a dismal overcast day in south Louisiana as MCXSH-18 departs Baton Rouge
Looking down the former right of way of the Ann Arbor, the Great Lakes Central's OSTN is building their train at the south end of San Yard in Owosso, Michigan. When the train leaves the yard, they will hop on the HESR's line to Durand.
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GLC Cadillac District
Owosso, MI
GLC OSTN (Owosso, MI to Ann Arbor, MI Turn)
GLC 399 GP38-2 Ex. LLPX 2336, UP 1963, CR 8031, PC 8031 Blt. 1972
GLC 398 GP38-2 Ex. LLPX 2331, EMDX 821, CR 8021, PC 8021 Blt. 1972
GLC 386 SD35 Ex. MRL 705, IMRL 705, MRL 1553, NW 1553 Blt. 1965
A mixture of sounds from EMD's 16-710 prime mover, along with the new 12-1010, and dynamics fills the air as a test train from Denver to Tabernash, Colorado makes its way up the 2-percent grade in Rollinsville, Colorado on March 07, 2016.
Easing onto the connection to the AS&B Bridge from The Inbound is CPKC train YKK12-24, or "Run 12", which is bringing a transfer from NS's Avondale Yard to CPKC's Knoche Yard on opposite sides of the Missouri River.
They have quite a unique and colorful group of power on the head end today. The SD70MAC running long hood forward is the working power and its followed behind by another pair of KCS units along with six SD60's coming off lease.
Five of those SD60's are former Oakway's and wear New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway paint, and one is a former SD60 demonstrator with HTC-R trucks, wearing a unique version of GATX paint reflecting a Providence & Worcester/Vermont Railway joint lease that began in 2014.
All six of these SD60's arrived in Kansas City yesterday on NS train 224 along with those same two KCS units. 6/24/23.
After the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway was chartered in 1859, Cyrus K. Holliday started building his railroad west from Topeka and Atchison, Kansas towards Dodge City. However, Holliday did not turn south at Dodge City but built west into Colorado and southwest to Trinidad where there were coal deposits. Holliday's route took his railroad to Raton Pass just outside of Trinidad. However, in 1878, a railroad war broke out between the Santa Fe and the Denver and Rio Grande as they wanted to build south into New Mexico and the Rio Grande wanted to eventually reach Mexico City. Both railroads also wanted access over Tennessee Pass through the Royal Gorge in Colorado west of Pueblo as well. By 1880, federal intervention prompted an out-of-court settlement in the form of the so-called "Treaty of Boston". Thanks to this, the Santa Fe continued its route over Raton Pass while the Rio Grande built west. The Santa Fe had to climb over Raton Pass with grades reaching up to 3.5-percent. The summit reached an elevation of 7,588-feet, the highest elevation on the Santa Fe. A tunnel was constructed and sits on the edge of the Colorado/New Mexico state line.
Over 138 years later, a westbound BNSF train led by EMDX SD70ACe-T4 No. 1603 exits the west end of Raton Pass tunnel and will begin its downhill run to Raton and eventually Watrous, on August 8, 2018.