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Terminal Job 101 detours on the high line along the Mississippi River in Lacledes Landing due to the final truss of the Merchants Bridge being replaced.
It's a quiet night in the remote woods of Maine as Canadian Pacific manifest 250 breaks the silence at the Route 15 crossing in Tarratine, Maine. A mix of CP and former CMQ EMD's are leading today's train, running about 12 hours later than its typical time across the Moosehead Sub. After mechanical trouble with one of the SD40-2F's outside of Sherbrooke, the pair of four axles used for local service was tacked on to the front of the train to get it to Brownville.
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CP Moosehead Sub
Tarratine, ME
CP 250 (Manifest; Montreal, QC to Brownville Junction, ME)
CMQ 3817 GP38-3 Ex. LTEX 2553 GP35u, BNSF 2553, ATSF 2853, ATSF 1353 GP35 Blt. 1965
CP 2318 GP20C-ECO Blt. 2013
CMQ 9011 SD40-2F Ex. CP 9011 Blt. 1988
CP 6024 SD40-2 Blt. 1981
CMQ 9020 SD40-2F Ex. CP 9020 Blt. 1988
Here the Chicago Central passes through downtown Dubuque...Just kidding...its the Ellis & Eastern road job passing through Sioux Falls en route to Corson to load sand. What was then brand new to them GP38-3 leading the way.
Number 47 was originally built with a high short hood as Southern Railway 2740, a straight GP38. Work performed at Metro East Industries of St Louis brought it to Dash-3 standards and a chopped nose before arriving Sioux Falls in January 2010.
Terminal's "Bremen Job" shoves through the Eads Bridge, passing Laclede's Landing after a long night of switching the various industries in the North St. Louis area. The usual route of the Merchants Bridge is disabled, resulting in a long and painful round-about route to return to TRRA's Madison Yard. The route mentioned takes them down the Hi-Line, shoving all the way down to the Gratiot CP, before pulling up the MacArthur Bridge and peeling off on the Illinois side to head North for Q Tower, Big Bend, and eventually CP Junction.
Within a few miles of the top of the grade, 2060 and friends are in trouble. Lack of sand, leaf conditions and a Ground Relay issue on one of the pushers will bring the train to a stop just about a half mile behind me.
Making good time, Job 1 hustles west past the old Canadian Pacific section house that's still hanging on at Bodfish. Consecutively numbered 9022 and 9021 are leading a leased GP38-3 and about forty-five cars on this warm summer evening, with Engineer Copeland running them right along. This view was obscured until recently by thousands of new ties that had been stacked along the right of way; fortunately the section house is again visible as mow crews have moved the ties to where they'll be put in.
GP38-3 #2010 leads P&W Train PR-2 over Route 146 in North Smithfield, RI after servicing Denman and Davis Steel at the end of the Slatersville Branch on the morning of April 5, 2010. The Branch hasn’t seen any rail service since the end of 2010 and is currently out of service.
Just about 3 years ago JJL when and I went over photograph to photograph the Belpre Industrial Park Railway with GP38-3's. The rumor mill said they would have an emblem's applied to the nose, that's never happened to my knowledge and from recent postings it doesn't look like they get washed very often these days.
An extra Job 1 run on one of the normal off days grinds upgrade by the bog at Mile 19 in Onawa. A pair of endangered SD40-2Fs lead a GP38-3 and forty-two cars, with some logs for Jackman on the headpin. With CP lining up to buy the CMQ at the start of 2020, I'm glad I've got some pretty good coverage of the CMQ in Maine, as it appears the company (and the power) will likely disappear under CP.
MQT 3389, 2041 and 3408 creep across the Muskegon River bridge in Newaygo MI enroute to Baldwin. On Sunday's this crew usually starts several hours early and can make for a very photo rewarding chase. Newaygo is also a great place to people watch that are cooling down in the river on these hot summer days, sadly it was a tad too early for the views to start.
GP38-2s # 2009 and # 2006, B39-8 # 3905, B40-8 # 4003, and GP38-3 # 2011 power P&W Train WX-1 southbound on the Gardner Branch along Moosehorn Pond in Hubbardston, MA on their return trip from interchanging with Pan Am Railways in Gardner, MA. Photo date November 6, 2020.
Ohio Central GP38-3 2175, the last maroon four axle EMD on the southern lines, approaches the north end of Newark after spending the morning making a run up to Mount Vernon on Dec. 10, 2020.
A westbound East Penn freight train climbs upgrade past the Oxford Grain & Hay Co. in Oxford, PA on Dec. 13, 2021, led by GP38-3 No. 2179.
Despite leaving my house under full cloud cover, by the time I got to the Onawa area the clouds were clearing up nicely, and Job 1 had gotten a fairly quick departure from Brownville Junction. A hour and a half later, and they're seen here tackling the grade west out of Onawa, passing Little Greenwood Pond with a trio of SD40-2Fs and a GP38-3 for power, with sixty-one cars trailing. This spot is the location of a head-on collision in 1919, where an eastbound freight train misread their train orders, and hit a westbound passenger train of immigrants, killing twenty-three people.
CMQ's Job 2 hustles east into the growing darkness at the setting sun adds a little color to the sky. A pair of SD40-2Fs lead an ex-Patriot Rail leaser, and a CMQ GP38-3 with a lengthy train on the last day of 2017. This would also be the last picture I took in 2017, as my friend Derek and I decided to head home after this shot.
Maryland Midland freight train UBHF pulls 42 loads of cement from the Lehigh Portland plant at Union Bridge, MD on Sept. 13, 2021 with four SD40-2's and a GP38-3.
Coming off the TRRA Illinois Transfer Sub at Valley JCT is TRRA train T102 en route from TRRA's Madison Yard with a transfer for the KCS at East St. Louis, IL. A pair of the TRRA's own GP38-3's are the working power followed behind by 7 units trailing DIT. 2/11/23.
B40-8 # 4006 and GP38-3 # 2010 are seen southbound thru Wilsonville, CT powering P&W Train WONR with forty-two cars in tow on the morning of September 29, 2021.
Rolling by a former a Pennsy station the freight is on its way to Nottingham to switch out the potato chip factory. I would suspect back in the day the upstairs was for the Agent and his family. It was quite common on the CPR into the 70's.
BIP 178 crosses over into West Virginia with a train bound for the High Yard in Parkersburg on a swealtering 100° afternoon.
The Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad, or BIP for short, took over operations from CSX on the Marietta Sub in May 2020. They currently work 4 major customers on the Ohio side, Orion Carbon, Solvay Polymers, Marathon, and the most desirable one, Globe Met.
Columbia & Cowlitz GP38-3 #3804 leads a Georgia Northeastern Railroad southbound through some thick kudzu just outside of Marietta, GA in October 2020. CLC #3804 was built in 1979 as SSW GP40-2 #7653.
After getting out of work yesterday on 142, I decided to hang around to get a couple shots of a F16 extra that was heading south behind CMQ 3817, despite the gloomy weather. About twenty minutes after I booked off, they're seen running down the main at Brownville Village, with a train of ST haulage traffic stretched out behind them.
A pair of repainted SD40-2Fs and a leased GP38-3 power Job 1 as they roll across the 1200' Onawa Trestle in the fading afternoon sun. This past year the CMQ's schedule for westbounds over the Moosehead wasn't as conducive for photography as the year before, but the later schedule did allow for better sun at a few spots, assuming the train got there in time. The Onawa and Bodfish areas both benefited, as seen here, but often would result in a one and done trip, as the sun had gone down before they would get to Greenville.
The West Freight is returning back to their train after interchanging width the CN at Gilman. For us our day was done, we had light and while we had the light we went to the CN Main found a boarded up but we would strike out as the trains didn't cooperate.
UBST at Big Pipe creek trestle
MMID UBST with MMID 2060 (GP38-3), MMID 2061 (GP38-3), MMID 3451 (SD40M-2)
MMID MDOT Subdivision
Keymar, Maryland
The Gateway Arch and the rest of the St. Louis skyline dominate the background as TRRA train T101 eases across the North Approach of the MacArthur Bridge over East St. Louis, IL.
The 101 Job is utilizing the TRRA MacArthur Bridge District as it returns to TRRA's Madison Yard with a transfer from the former Manufacturers Railway Miller Yard in St. Louis. The GP38-3's are the working power, and the three trailing BNSF GE's recently received work at the Metro East Industries, Inc. shops at the former MRS facility. 2/11/23.
An extra Job 1 rolls west over the East Outlet for the Kennebec River at Moosehead, Maine. While earlier we had gotten lucky with the sun at Onawa and Greenville, by the time the train had reached Moosehead the clouds had won out for the rest of the day. Consecutively numbered SD40-2Fs 9022 and 9021 are leading a leased GP38-3 and forty-two cars on Monday afternoon.
EN: With Mount Shasta as backdrop the CORP local to Weed ist leaving the UP Black Butte station.
DE: Mit dem Mount Shasta im Hintergrund verlässt der CORP Lokalgüterzug den UP Bahnhof Black Butte, wo einige Wagen übernommen worden waren.
The last of my night stuff from Florida for the time being is Y295 street running down Polk street in downtown Tampa enroute to Cargill with loaded corn Syrup cars. The massive Go Bucs Slogan was too much to fit into the shot I was trying for.
Receiving word that there would be an extra 202 job south out of Brownville, my friend Tim and I matched up to chase it south. But first Job 410 made their way south towards Derby, seen here passing the north leg of the wye at Brownville Village with a quintet of CMQ engines, and a single CEFX GP38-3. Most of the power had come in off Job 2 that morning, and was going to Derby for servicing, while the six cars behind the power were shop cars.
I made a decision late last night to follow the south job, (506) this morning out of McAdam to St. Stephen. It ended up being a solid final day to round one of vacation for this year, with sunny skies, but extremely cold temperatures, a stark contrast to yesterday's springlike weather. Today's EMR crew has just taken over from the NBSR crew including using their power (NBSR 2317 & 001) to do the interchange work on the Calais side. The American crew shoves a cut of cars from Milltown across the St. Croix River and over to Maine including four well placed green CRLE boxes on the headpin. I'd be remiss if I didn't express my appreciation to the McAdam crew for the suggestion for this location, so thank you!
Farnham-based switcher CP G24 is unusually coming to St-Luc Yard in Montreal with a healthy sized train and four geeps for power, including a CMQ leader. The train is passing under the Vaudreuil Sub, at left is the North Jct. Lead.
Having made the crew change at Sheldon the I&M GP38-3 #2084 is pounding the diamond with the KB&S at Sheldon, IL with a blue dome overhead. The chase was on.
A Newark to Coshocton Turn job has just begun their return trip and is crossing the Muskingum River outside of Coshocton. The hefty construction of the steel bridge hails from when this was a double track route of the Pennsylvania Railroad west out of Pittsburgh.
The way I understand it, the 2175 was originally a GP38AC built for the L&N and subsequently rebuilt by the OC at Morgan Run shops and rebranded as a GP38-3.
NS P67, an NS local out of Gainesville, GA, is seen crossing over a river on the Z line near Clemson, SC, on its way back from Anderson. The only GP38-3 in OLS paint is leading the way, followed by a trio of sister GP's. Noteworthy is that the Z line between Seneca and Anderson does not usually see any daylight traffic, we lucked out on a very late transfer to the Pickens.