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Headed for IFG, Rex Kwon Do karate chops through town with KCS Train M-VNKC-02 North Grandview on the KCS Pittsburg Sub.
Locomotives: KCS 4006, EMDX 7205
2-3-20
Grandview, MO
After striking out earlier in the day my effort paid off when these EMD SD70ACe demo units rolled by the Pittsburgh skyline in sweet evening light. My day started off with an email from the late Rich Borkowski indicating the N71 started loading at 4:50 AM. I was out the door not long after to be in position for the money shot at Time but they ran into some issues along the branch including the NS geometry train. The sun angle soured before they departed Bailey Mine but I think this one made up for it.
EMDX 1203 was later sold to the Arkansas & Missouri as AM 72 and infamously derailed not long after near Schaberg, Arkansas.
With an SD60 and SD75I, CN auto train A401 passes through Milwaukee Junction in Detroit, Michigan as it heads south toward Toledo. At the junction, the train comes off the CN Holly Sub, crosses over the Conrail North Yard Branch, and then gets on the CN Shore Line Sub.
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CN Shore Line Sub
Detroit, MI
CN A401 (Battle Creek, MI to Lang Yard - Toledo, OH)
CN 5407 SD60 Ex. GMTX 9035, EMDX 9035, OWY 9035 Blt. 1986
CN 5711 SD75I Blt. 1996
A set of three Oakway EMDX SD60s are leading an eastbound BNSF freight through lengthening afternoon shadows at Alma, Wisconsin. – If I remember correctly these Oakway leasors went right to the BNSF after being built in late 1986, and by the time this shot of October 9th, 2011 was taken it was getting pretty late in the game for their time spent as part of the BNSF motive power roster. – All three of these EMDs along with many others were sold to the Canadian National not long after this photo was taken. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
EMDX- Progress Rail SD70ACE-T4 # 7209 leads a short KCS MKCESJ-06 over UP Springfield Sub at bridge jct in East St Louis, IL on Jan 7th 2020. There are 10 of these Tier 4's currently on KCS
Mid-train on CP 296 was EMDX 7225 (EMD SD70ACe-T4). While the weather was not great, I had yet to shoot one of these EMDX units on CP. May 24, 2021 I crossed that off the list.
CP 296 crosses a small bridge on the east side of Strangmuir as it heads for St. Paul.
They say the weather in Colorado can change within five minutes, and that is absolutely true. While chasing the "Demos" up the hill, gaining almost 3,500 - 4,000ft in elevation, it was a mixture of low hanging clouds to sunny skies. At Tolland, it was sunny with blue sky. However, at East Portal, less than a mile away, the weather changed...
Seen here, the test train slowly rolls into "blizzard" conditions as they roll along through the siding at East Portal, Colorado where they'll let the Moffat Tunnel vent out and meet Amtrak 6 on March 07, 2016.
Shortly after the BNSF merger, wild mixes of classic motive power could be found as the new company integrated Santa Fe and Burlington Northern locomotives together.
A westbound Z train for the Pacific Northwest has former Santa Fe Rebuilt EMD GP35u 2944 leading Burlington Northern GP39R (built as Central of Georgia GP35 210) and EMDX SD40-3 2000 (built for the Colorado and Southern as SD40 880) through the ruins of the Burlington coach yard in Aurora.
Variety was the spice of life in the 1990's.
On December 3, 2017, the CN Walker - Clover Bar yard transfer featured EMDX 1605 and 1606 leading the way.
With afternoon rainstorms breaking up, the setting sun casts a twenty second long golden glow across Fort Worth, Texas as it finds a small opening amongst the storm clouds. A quartet of EMD's are hard at work on a yard job working the west end of the Fort Worth & Western's yard north of Fort Worth.
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FWWR Fort Worth Subdivision
Fort Worth, TX
Unknown Symbol (Yard Job; Fort Worth, TX)
FWWR 2009 GP40-2 Ex. NREX 7250, SSW 7250 Blt. 1984
FWWR 2031 SD40-2 Ex. NREX 3014, FURX 3014, MKCX 9402 SD40, CNW 926, CGW 406 Blt. 1966
FWWR 2025 SD40M-2 Ex. CEFX 3145, MKCX 5366 SD45u, ATSF 5366, ATSF 1832 SD45 Blt. 1966
FWWR 2028 SD40-2 Ex. NREX 3047, FURX 3047, EMDX 6403 SD40, EMDX 403, CR 6343, PC 6090 Blt. 1966
After making a set-out, BNSF's Denver to Laurel manifest train led by former Santa Fe C44-9W No. 685 departs north at Highland, Colorado, on March 31, 2021. The Warbonnet paint may be chipped and faded, the old Dash 9 is still going strong after almost 27-years of service.
H DENLAU1 30A
Highland, Colorado
With their work completed in Durand, Michigan the Huron & Eastern Railroad's train 701 departs town up the Saginaw Subdivision. Meanwhile, the Great Lake Central's OSTN has arrived at the yard and will work here before proceeding south.
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HESR Saginaw Subdivision
Durand, MI
HESR 701 (Manifest; Durand, MI to Saginaw, MI)
HESR 3484 SD40M-2 Ex. HESR 2661, UP 2661, SP 8585, SP 9130 SD45 Blt. 1969
HESR 3414 SD40-2 Ex. LTEX 3280, UP 3280, UP 3824, MKT 616 Blt. 1979
HESR Owosso Subdivision
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
NS 2685 leads EMDX 2005 solo on NS 099 through the Marion railpark enroute to Norfolk, VA. This specially built SD70ACS is bound for the SAR, aka, Saudi Rail Company. Due to the nature of the environment this ACS will operate in, EMD fitted large, specially modified air filters to keep the desert sands out of the prime mover. Although NS burned money on crews for this one locomotive, there's no doubt Norfolk Southern were heavily compensated by the Saudi's for this special move.
This was the one time I shot one of CN's four ex-demonstrator SD70ACe's that were acquired from EMD before they were repainted. Too bad CN didn't leave them like that for a while as the patch jobs were really done well. Not sure if I even knew this was coming but here it is trailing a repainted BCOL unit at Paris Jct., Ontario.
BCOL 4618 Dash 8-40CM
CN 8100 SD70ACe nee EMDX 1206
UP 3001 was turned over to UP in December 2017. It was originally built as EMDX 1504 before being repainted and handed over to UP. 3001 was the third unit on a power move from Skyline mine. The train ran as the ESKPVD-10
EMDX 1606 leads CN X122 through Merritton on the Grimsby Sub during the infamous Sarnia Tunnel Reroutes in July 2019.
EMD SD60MAC 9503 was at the US 22 overpass in Rockville enroute to Enola yard on the Buffalo Line on train BUEN in 1993.
Painted in a quasi-Burlington Northern scheme, this was one of only four SD60MACs produced and they led to the thousands of SD70MACs made by EMD in the 1990s.
Three of the four EMDX SD60MAC's made their way to the DOT Test Center near Pueblo Colorado. The 9501 returned to EMD in LaGrange as a test bed for prime movers.
These were not owned by the BN; they were just EMD demo units. Conrail tested them for a few weeks and placed an order for the SD80MAC.
The Massachusetts Central Railroad's local crew has arrived at the end of the line in South Barre, Massachusetts and is in the process of working the transload facility here before heading back to Palmer. The crew is backing across the bridge over the Ware River to pick up cars spotted at the Wildwood Development Corporation facility.
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MCER Ware River Line
South Barre, MA
MCER PA-2 (Local; Palmer, MA to South Barre, MA)
MCER 1751 GP38-2 Ex. GMTX 2228, EMDX 797, CR 7997, PC 7997 Blt. 1972
EMDX 7234 leads KCS train MVNKC west into Louisiana, MO, passing the old depot that has been long since left to fall apart, slowly but surely. This is a trio of these new Tier 4 ACes that KCS has acquired.
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.