Airline: Frontier Airlines [F9/FFT]
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The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 emerges from the confines of the small town of Thistle, Utah on a frosty first day of spring in 1977.
IFA F9 at the PS.Speicher in Einbeck.
Homebuilt in 1956 (one year after the production ended) from new and used spare parts.
KCS BKCJV 26 rounds a twenty mile per hour curve as it slows to ten for the diamond with the BNSF Hannibal Subdivision and the crossing of the Mississippi River. The train is en route to the Bartlett Grain Loop & Elevator in Jacksonville, Illinois with big wigs from the large grain company onboard. The Belle-painted Fs are passing the former Louisiana C&A Depot in Fall of 2022, the last time it has traversed the former Gateway & Western and very possibly the last time forever.
More on the depot... It was constructed in 1907 by The Chicago & Alton Railroad and ceased operations to passenger rail service in 1960. The building closed in 1973 and since then has been privately owned. There are rumblings of relocating it out of a flood-prone area to restore and preserve the building.
For the first time since 2013, the NS OCS train made it into Florida. In this picture, the train is seen rounding the curve just south of the Crawford, Fl diamond, ducking under the southernmost ex-Southern RWY signal on the GS&F.
Same owner since 1994!
37e Elfsteden Oldtimer Rally 2025
Molkwerum, the Netherlands.
Video: youtu.be/Rw2BOinMhho
EMD F9A 975 along with EMD's Test car, a B unit, is on the Rio Grande coupled with three Rio Grande F7's eastbound between Brown Canon and Salida in 1953. Bob Konsbruck worked for EMD and was with the demo on its tour on the D&RGW. Original Kodachrome by the Late Bob Konsbruck, from my collection.
No doubt the old elevator at Farwell, Minn., has witnessed the passing of Soo Line Fs and even Alco FAs. On Oct. 3 its biding "farwell" to the A-B-A set of Fs pulling the Royal Canadian Pacific back to Calgary.
This is the other end of the Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad Santa train that was in the last photo. This is there EMD F9 in its Northern Pacific colors. DSC_0577-HDR-1
Electro-Motive Division F9 462 at the CB&Q locomotive facility in Clyde, Illinois on April 20, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 462 was built in December 1949 as C&NW F7 6501A ( c/n 8580 ) on EMD Order E1188, was retired by the C&NW on January 7, 1959 and traded back to EMD. It was rebuilt during May 1960 into a F9A ( new c/n, 26158, note there appears to be two builders plates ) on EMD Order E1188-A33R and used as a test unit for newly developed components. It is seen here equipped with a toe step between two CB&Q GP20's testing something.
A note from Ken Lanovich: EMD 462 was scrapped at Midwest Metalics ( Pielet Bros ) in 1998. They held it for some time, offers were made to buy it, but no group ever came up with the cash. The last offer was to buy the cab for a restaurant in downtown Chicago but that fell through. I remember pieces of it went to Larry's Truck Electric.( LTEX ) when the property was being cleaned up. Anybody need an F unit pilot? The 462's pilot and a brand new one from EMD went to LTEX when Midwest shut down.
Burlington Northern Railroad F9 BN-1 at Springfield, Missouri on May 13, 1994, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in February 1954 as Northern Pacific F9 6700A ( c/n 19056 ) on EMD Order 3175A, it became BN 9800, and later demoted to freight service as 766, later still MOW service 972567. Around October 1990, it was outshopped at West Burlington, Iowa as BN-1, having exchanged it original 567 prime mover for a 645. The B-unit was former NP F9B 7002C, which also received a 645 prime mover, turning both units into GP38 equivalents.