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ES44DC 7762 leads a Dash 9-44CW and an SD40-2 with a hotshot westbound TOFC past an eastbound freight. She's got a clear block and a green signal as she highballs on west.
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Tamron 75-300mm lens
February 19, 2020: A solo ES44DC GE engine leads the famous "Brick" engine, as Norfolk Southern Geometry Train NS 904 flies up Braswell Mountain at MP 104.3 just outside of Rockmart, GA on a cold and gloomy afternoon.
BNSF 7737 ES44DC dressed in the heritage 2 paint scheme takes the lead on this long J.B. Hunt stack train through Turner’s Station east of Springfield, Mo.
Two versions of CN 120 (Q12031 28 & Q12091 27) sit parked with two GEVO variations leading each (ES44DC CN 2250 & ES44AC CN 3895). This was just after a long blockade of CN's Kingston Sub by Native American protesters had come to an end.
A southbound CSX automotive train passes through Ottawa, OH on Aug. 8, 2023, led by ES44DC No. 5437.
On the Greenville District, NS G53 takes the siding with Dash-9 9843 leading to give the ROW to 238 w/ NS ES44DC 7567 on the point
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in August 2008
On August 13, 2008 Dad found CSX ES44DC 5314 and SD70MAC 4572 (ex-CSX 772) as power on a southbound unit coal train in the East Yard at Etowah, TN.
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CN ES44DC 2327 leading a loaded rail train (along with 1 nsc ballast hopper and 3 gondolas on the headend) towards Aldershot seconds after meeting a light power move at the Humber.
A BNSF southbound intermodal enters Memphis after crossing the Mississippi River on the Frisco Bridge. The train then switches over to main 2 of the Thayer South Sub to continue through the city.
ES44AC CN 2912, Dash9-44CW CN 2582 & ES44DC CN 2311 are lashed up elephant style as they lead CN 120 on the St-Hyacinthe sub.
Moving northbound, a BNSF intermodal train passes over the interlocker of the UP Hoxie Sub in Hoxie, Arkansas.
BNSF ES44DC 7479 leads the S-LBACHI1-28A eastbound at MP 374 east of Williams Jct., AZ through fresh snowfall on November 29, 2009.
A DC version of the ES44 leads U70691, loaded ethanol for NS in Chicago. This old time bridge is a perfect fit for this GE. These trestles are still quite common on the Freeport sub, this one just east of Seward, Illinois. After meeting U70391 just west of here, this GE is notched out to obtain track speed.
Foreign power leads a Norfolk Southern wood chip train past the Amtrak platform in Columbia, South Carolina in 2010. Until these trains were anulled, they were always a faorite of mine to catch as they seemed to have the best power to shoot of other trains in the area. BNSF and Union Pacific power was common place as were the Norfolk Southern heritage units. BNSF 7618 is a General Electric ES44DC built in 2005.
M33791 runs west along the wide-open farmland of northern Illinois. Three more dash 8's are going west in Iowa for scrapping but makes for an old school lash up. Power 2325,8931,2444,2434,2134.
From high atop a mesa, we see BNSF 7200 leading westbound stack train Q-STLLAC1-11A through the desert. This hill was huge, and on that day, I just didn't have it in me to get all the way to the top!
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The first "Production Swoosh" GE ES44DC was wheeling westward with the S-CHCTAC-3-07 through Hinsdale, Illinois on its first run back in March of 2005.
Notice the minor differences in this scheme from the thousands to come-a slightly smaller 'BNSF' on the nose and orange in place of black on the bottom off the V stripe on the nose.
Most of Chicagoland's rail photographers were trackside between Cicero and the Mississippi River to catch this thing.
If we only knew how many there would soon be.
NS 20R operates east on the correct track (for less shadowy photos) through New Market during past peak fall colors. It wasn't a particularly colorful fall in New Jersey, so we took what we could get.
NS 20R:
NS 7595 ES44DC
One of CN's oldest GEs (excepting its purchases on the secondhand market) ES44DC 2284 leads Chicago - Toronto (Brampton Intermodal Terminal) train #148 off the Dundas Sub and on to the Oakville Sub. No. 2284's paint is looking all of its 17 years!
Elephant style CN 2252 & CN 2291 lead a short CN X322 through Beaconsfield on a wet winter afternoon. CN 322 would follow twenty-two minutes later.
BNSF ES44DC 7680 is seen rolling a manifest past the former Santa Fe passenger station in Gainesville, TX. The station was built in 1902 by the Santa Fe railway and currently sees Amtrak's Heartland Flyer service which runs between Oklahoma City, OK and Fort Worth, TX. A museum is located on the first floor, and upstairs are city offices and a replica of a Harvey House overnight stay quarters.
BNSF ES44DC 7671 leads northbound HAMOMEM at Reese, Mississippi after meeting a duo of Southbounds at North Reese.
Running earlier than usual, CN 321 is passing Turcot Ouest with a short train and the GTW heritage unit trailing third. It will go into Taschereau Yard a bit west of here to lift more cars. Full consist: CN 2222, CN 5786 & CN 8952.
First shot in a four-shot series. ES44DC 7762 leads a Dash 9 and a Santa Fe blue-and-yellow SD40-2 on a slow rolling pass of an eastbound mixed freight at Snowden, MT. In just a few moments both trains will be clear and 7762 will begin to pick up speed.
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A trio of ES44DC's (BNSF 7210, BNSF 7337 & BNSF 7381) and one ES44C4 (BNSF 6643) lead a southbound intermodal train on the Birmingham Sub at MP 507.7 in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
It's a brilliant summer morning in The Dalles. Despite a nearby wildfire, the sky is a beautiful, fresh, baby blue. Mount Hood looms in the distance as BNSF sends a Pasco bound train east through North Dalles. The shot was taken from the US 197 crossing of the Columbia River.
BNSF ES44DC 7825 leads the westbound Z-LPKLAC7-02L with 4730 tons, 6120 ft, 41 UPS/FedEx loads across the Sacramento Wash at MP 544.6 at Haviland, AZ on February 4, 2018.
Splitting the campus of the University of Memphis is NS 284. ES44DC BNSF 7548 led the train into town as the BNSF ZSBDAUG.
Catching a train on the NS CL Line isn't an easy thing to do, let alone one with DODX Military Equipment loads in good sun, but on the morning of August, 16th, 2018 just that happened. NS E16 creeps across the long and low wood pile trestle across the White Oak River at Stella, NC, with an ES44DC on the point of 8 DODX Loads. Having lived less than 5 minutes away from this bridge for my entire life, this shot was an important one to cross off of the list and I'm glad to finally have shot a train here in good sun.
BNSF 7770 leads a long train of plastic pellet hoppers and tank cars on UP's Galveston Subdivision as the train approaches the East Belt interlocking at Tower 85. The Galveston Sub operates under Yard Limits within the Houston Terminal, hence the YL sign seen to the right.
A few buildings in Downtown Houston can be seen in the distance.
H TEAPTX1 07A (High Priority Manifest- Teague, TX to PTRA Pasadena Yard)
BNSF ES44DC #7770
BNSF ES44DC #7554
Houston, TX
June 8th, 2024
CN 2232 (GE ES44DC), 5761 (EMD SD75I) & (DPU) 8004 (EMD SD70M-2) lead M33891 02 past the east end of Jesup Siding at Deacon Ave. The hogbacks seen here are among some of the milder ones in this area, but it still makes for a neat shot nonetheless. Taken on 6/2/19.
ES44DC's, BNSF 7356 & CSX 5269 are rear end DPU's on an eastbound double stack, which is negotiating the many sharp curves on the climb up Cajon Pass at Pine Lodge. 19 February 2023.
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3929 West getting it done with a few sisters with a autorack train. Not as well known as some other "hills" in the southwest, Goffs still puts them on their knees...
After rolling through the Runnels crossover and then across Buffalo Bayou near the distant apartments, BNSF 7955 catches a few rays of morning sun on the West Belt near Downtown Houston. The train will take a right turn at Tower 26 ahead, then ride trackage rights on UP's Houston Sub to get to BNSF's large chemical traffic yard at Dayton, 35 miles east of Houston.
M PTXDYT1 22A (Manifest- PTRA Pasadena Yard to Dayton, TX)
BNSF ES44DC #7955
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #4321
Houston, TX
June 23rd, 2024
UP 7605, the GE painted ES44DC leads a southbound bare table train somewhere south of Watsonville, CA. This locomotive wasn't in this paint scheme very long before it got a fresh coat of piss brick yellow and grey.
November 12, 2007
BNSF ES44DC 7289 leads westbound BNSF U MRMCHE5 25 on the single track through the Nebraska sand hills. This empty ballast train has finished dumping at Merna and is heading for Cheyenne, WY with BNSF C44-9W 4109 on the rear as the DPU. The train is coming across the single track just east of Antioch heading for Alliance. The BNSF Sand Hills in 2021 can still see a good 40 trains a day on average (pending on the month) but the days of 70-80 trains a day are long gone. With coal on its way out and a faster death each day, we can only hope the Sand Hills lives longer then most hope.
That's a funny looking passenger train.
After the chase concluded in Hastings, we headed out to east of town to catch the train that had been behind the local the entire way. This is what we found.
BNSF ES44DC 7332 leads a geo train westbound on the Hastings Subdivision outside Hastings, Nebraska, January 8, 2023.
With dark clouds and storms surrounding Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 17, 2014, a westbound BNSF coal train snakes along the Missouri River in scenic Lombard Canyon on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision. BNSF GE ES44DC No. 7491 leads a leased Canadian Pacific GE AC4400CW and a BNSF EMD SD70MAC.
WIDE VIEW: A BNSF W/B grain train is on MRL's 4th Sub main line approaching the Mullen Road grade crossing at MP 136.12. ES44DC-7518 & ES44C4-T4-4265 are on the point as they pass The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Canadian National ES44DC No. 2242 descends the Thompson River gorge just south of Spences Bridge, BC on the CN Ashcroft Sub with a westbound intermodal service on 20th September 2016.