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Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest freight) approaching Greycliff, Montana, on the afternoon of October 3, 2005. The train will be treading through snow by the end of of the day during a blue hour climb of Bozeman Pass.
A Santa Fe SD40u, GP35u, GP30u, and F45 pull a westbound freight through the Coconino National Forest east of Flagstaff, Arizona on April 2, 1989. It was power consists like this that made Santa Fe one of my favorite railroads.
The e/b 891 train, "Super C", crests Cajon Pass at Summit, CA. F45 5930 leads two sisters on a stellar January 14, 1973 morning.
Burlington Northern EMD locomotives gather at the locomotive facility at Clyde Yard in Cicero, Illinois, on November 23, 1986. BN F45 No. 6642 is flanked by GP9 No. 1877 and GP50 No. 3141 on the whisker tracks off the turntable near the old roundhouse. The era of a F45 sitting next to a tiger-striped GP50 was extremely short lived.
Once out of the siding at Mitchell (previous image), BN westbound freight 177's Extra passes depot at about 1805 behind F45, SD45 (6614-6404.) The student engineer, whom I knew well, gave me a hardy wave as we went by. The train order signal assures the crew that no orders are to be picked up here.
Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freight, simply known as the LM, past the grain elevators at Big Timber, Montana, on October 3, 2005.
In golden light at the end of a long spring day, a Conrail ELSF train heads into the setting sun at 7:33 p.m. on May 28, 1989, at Chesterton, Indiana. The westbound freight is powered by an all-Santa Fe run through locomotive consist, led by Kodachrome EMD F45 No. 5950, heading back to home rails on the Conrail main line.
My first trip in 1979 to the Tehachapi's allowed me to see F45's SD26's UBoats from both SP and the Santa Fe along with 45’s and so many more. An Eastbound with 4 different EMD models is drifting through Cameron and is just minutes away from getting back on home rails at Mojave.
Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 390 leads the road’s LM through the milepost 50 searchlight signals guarding MRL’s Second Subdivision main line between Craver and Reed Point, Montana, on October 3, 2005. I wouldn’t mind chasing this train again…
Eastbound NYS&W double-stack train 260 rolls across the Hackensack River behind an all-EMD consist including NYSW 3636 (F45), NYSW 3612 (SD45) and SOO 746 (SD40-2).
March 24, 1995
Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 392 faces brand new EMD SD70ACe No. 4300 at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Helena, Montana, on October 8, 2005. MRL No. 4300 is only a month old, and F45 No. 392 will be taken out of service permanently the following year, so the period of time where both of these locomotives operated together was very brief!
A sampling of Utah Railway’s locomotive roster await assignment in Provo, Utah the afternoon on April 26, 1997. Two power sets include six SD40s, an F45, and an SD45-2.
A pair of Utah Railway’s F45’s, purchased from the Burlington Northern, idle in the yard at Martin, Utah. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to see these units pulling freight.
The Susquehanna inspection train for its management and BOD to get a first view of its new route between its Southern and Northern Divisions rolls through Franklin, New Jersey. The recently reactivated former Lehigh & Hudson River main line’s weed-grown look and out of service searchlight signals don’t give the impression that this line now hosts several stack trains per week.
A quintet of Montana Rail Link 45-series EMD’s roll downgrade after pushing a westbound BNSF freight over Bozeman Pass, glinting the day’s last light west of Livingston, Montana, on October 10, 2005. MRL F45 No. 390, along with a SD45-2 and a trio of SD45s head back home for the evening.
A Cascade Green EMD F45 leads a Utah Railway Wattis to Intermountain Power coal train at Union Pacific's interchange yard in Provo, Utah on Nov. 21, 1987.
BN train 80 heads out of St. Paul with 6631 leading 6512 and 7052 on July 27, 1980. No photographer to credit for this fine view although I'd guess its one of Ed Kanak's excellent works. Chuck Schwesinger collection.
In 1985 Utah Railway acquired their own power again. The first units they got were these four former Burlington Northern F45's 6606, 6607, 6613, and 6608. The four unit set that my dad captured here is very rare. Not long after they got them, one suffered a mechanical failure that it was decided that it would become a parts source. The four green machines are seen here crossing the Gordon Creek Trestle. They are heading in with an empty coal train, to load at the Hiawatha loadout. (Tom Ellis photo)
F45 No. 3636 crosses Babcock Road in Tully with northbound double stack train TV-555 in the heat of 8 August 1998.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 8, 1977
A Santa Fe Railway F45 leads a five pack of six axle EMDs through 259 ft. Tunnel 17 in the Tehachapi Mountains west of Cable, California.
Santa Fe 5910 has quite an interesting story to tell. It began its service life as ATSF 1910, built by EMD in June 1968. It would later be renumbered ATSF 5910, later 5960, and by 1985 it received a fresh coat of SPSF livery, for a proposed merger that never happened.
After retirement, 5960 was sold to Morrison Knudsen who renumbered it MKCX 5531, joining the lease fleet. By May 1995 it was leased to the Utah Railway, becoming UTAH 9013 and assigned to haul coal across Soldier Summit.
After the lease ran out in 2001, it was shipped to Metro East Industries in East St. Louis, Illinois and was placed in storage, where it remained until at least 2007.
By 2009, it arrived in Essex, Montana. The prime mover had been removed, and the body and cab interior became a luxury hotel. It was renumbered to GN 441 and repainted in Great Northern's attractive "Sky Blue" livery where it stands today.
On New Year's Eve 1968, six-month-old F45 1915 accelerates west out of Clovis, New Mexico, with a train of mixed merchandise. The train is passing under Hull Street at the west end of Clovis Yard and passing by the El Rancho Milling Company elevator, a familiar Clovis landmark. Photo by Joe McMillan.
General Motors products are well represented this day at Wisconsin & Southern's Horicon terminal. Bob Lilly (leaning out of the cab window) and I have just finished up putting together the night train with one of three F45's WSOR acquired earlier in the year. The GMC truck is roundhouse foreman, chief mechanical officer, rules examiner etc, Jim Roberson's company vehicle. I believe that Bob and I had the classiest of the GM products this day though.
WSOR Night Train
WSOR 1001,4492,4494
Horicon, WI.
July 1992
Lighting conditions couldn't be worse, as TO51's train passes us at Silver Lake with a darn near perfect consist of EMD cowls.
WC TO51
WC 6652, 6656, 6603, 6651
Silver Lake, WI.
Spring 1997
WC's six F45s and lone FP45 were always fun to listen for and shoot, although not easy to find given their small numbers. Here WC 6654 (ATSF 1915) rests at South Itasca in a snow storm, which reminded me of today (3/16/16).
BN eastbound rail train waits behind F45 (6606) as helpers are cut out from rear of train...and the head end brakeman (me) steps out onto the snow to record the scene. Soon a second main would be added here to connect the sidings of Belmont and Marsland into ten miles of two-main-tracks.
enlarger lens Componon-S 50 mm at F4.7
175 images x 0,02 mm stacking distance
LED ringlight
Helicon focus C
On a hot July 6, 1992 eve, an eastbound Wisconsin & Southern freight plods through Slinger, Wisconsin. Glinting the late afternoon sun is WSOR EMD F45 No. 1002 and GP9 Nos. 4490, 4493 and 4494. The big cowls (WSOR 1001-1003) didn’t last very long on the roster, as they were a hard on this former Milwaukee Road trackage.
From my days as a non-promoted "fireman" (a student engineer who could hold a regular turn in the south pool), I have just pulled our Guernsey-Alliance local into the clear in the siding to let this westbound freight past us, headed by F45, C30-7 (6620-5544.) The depot in the distance shows a clear train order signal in both directions, so both trains must have gotten orders for this meet quite a ways back. This was all "dark territory", part of the route from Alliance to Laurel by way of Wendover Canyon, Casper, and the Wind River Canyon.
BN eastbound freight 74 behind U30b, F45 (5484-6631) approaches on main as my (as student engineer) coal empties wait on siding. The summer of '78 was spent as a student engineer, so I guess you could see I was learning the ropes "from the top!" We had started out of Ravenna (Nebr.) in the early morning, and by the time I chose this elevated position on top the cab of the lead SD40-2, we had made it a little more than halfway on the 238-mile trip to Alliance and home. We had headed into the Mullen siding at the power switch east end, and at the dispatcher's pleasure we would respond to the pot signal, just this side of the road crossing, and exit the west end of the siding through the spring switch. Another block signal would beckon - green, I would hope - about 200 yards further past the switch. Such was the normal setup for the CTC that had been installed by the CB&Q many years before, known to all as "poor man's CTC"; it was actually overkill for a line that usually saw about four trains a day unless the livestock was running. But by now there were many who wanted the new CTC to replace it. Until then, we would continue to enter the sidings on a "lunar" signal mandating the observance of "Restricted Speed." For many of us, the expression for entering the sidings was "being under the lunar influence." I'm sure many may have thought that was the reason for my position on top of the cab! One engineer told me that he had an official riding along and the guy asked "who the hell is that on top of the cab?" Wherein he responded "oh that's just the engineer....he likes it up there." Just imagine that today....
With more and more developing traffic on its Southern Tier route, the New York, Susquehanna & Western acquired sixteen ex-BN 45-series EMD’s. The two F45’s in the lot were the first freight cowl units owned by a road in the eastern US, and instantly became the stars of the fleet. Here one of the two lays over at the Susquehanna’s engine house in Binghamton, New York.
Traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world. In this case, the sumo uses the bottle as a training device to strengthen his forehead.
Tokyo, Japan
January, 2020
Train 377M06, Marquette to Mason City freight, beats hard as they climb the Monona Hill near MP11, west of Marquette The only F45 the IMRL had didn't make out to Mason City alot, so it's an awesome treat seeing it paired with 2 SRY SD38's. The SRY's didn't go to Marquette alot either in the later IMRl as they were based on the Jackson Sub with the Wells locals. So this was one of those consists you couldn't pass up. Too bad now days one will see a couple of red GE's doing this same thing that was so cool 21 years ago.
Scanned slide from February 6, 1998
We can have flare Friday and/or F-unit Friday and this week seeing as I haven't posted a WC F45 in a long time I'll do that...no danger of me running out of them just haven't got around to any lately. On February 20, 1999 the 6653, 1761 and 2005 head the SOGBA by the depot at Trout Lake. With around 8000 tons already and more pick ups to be made before Gladstone this lash will get a good workout on the way west.
Susquehanna F45 3636 leads a Delaware & Hudson train from Philadelphia into the yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Almost as interesting is the trailing GP38 with a CSX number and C&O reporting marks.
I-I-I...The WC 6656 leads the all-Wisconsin Central consist of Illinois Central train I-11 as it heads west over the Freeport Sub on July 25, 1999. Trailing are SD45s 6617, 6497 and 6606 on the 88 car train. Although it seemed hotter than hell this Sunday, I wrote in my notebook the Irene detector said 91 degrees as he passed..
Utah Railway F45 6606 stands in the road’s yard in Martin, Utah. It appears to have a severe case of runny paint, or more likely, has blown oil all over its roof.
A Kodachrome F45 and two blue F45s lead a hot shot up Cajon Pass, nearing Devore. It was always a treat seeing these F45s lead a train on Cajon Pass or anywhere really. 3.90
A pair of F45's at Galesburg. The colors may be a bit off as this was recovered from a slide that was severely overexposed as were most of the recent views from the 1978 trip due to a malfunctioning camera.
8-31-1978