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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.
CSX Y194 departs for Rougemere as the sun sets over the Motor City and a queue of trucks wait on top of the Ambassador Bridge to get into Canada.
Heading into the Joint Agency KCS-CP Knoche Yard with a transfer from KCT's Mill St. Yard is KCTL train Y-309, seen here easing to a stop on the North Main just west of Olive St. A "Banana" Ex-SP GP35R and an Ex-PRSL GP38-3 lettered for the K&O are the power this morning. 5/14/22.
CMQ Job 1 passes by milepost 19 in Elliotsville with a decent lashup for today's hefty 80 car train. CMQ 9022 leads two barns 9020/9011, SD40-2 3057, and CMQ GP38-3 3812. It was thanks to my friend Thomas to let me know they would run today as this job normally does not run Sundays.
Photographing the East Penn has been on the to do list for awhile now, but no more. Earlier the week, JJL and I followed their local out of Kennett Square to Nottingham which is the home of Herrs Potato Chips which is a major customer of the railroad. Here they are Westbound passing through Oxford, PA.
The sun is very low to the horizon as Job 1 rumbles west past the rarely used Moosehead siding. A trio of SD40-2Fs, and a CMQ GP38-3 are leading sixty-one cars west as the lead unit soaks up the last rays of sun here. In less than a minute the sun will have dipped below the treeline and it'll be getting progressively darker for the crew on the rest of their trip to Jackman.
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.
Possibly one of my biggest to do's railfanning wise while in Florida was to try and capture Y295 rolling down Polk street in downtown Tampa. Usually three times a week Y295 will make it's round trip to Cargill however rumors started to circulate late last year that this job may cease to operate by the end of the year. The rumors have grown quiet but I wasn't going to take the chance. Running later than normal Y295 heads back to the yard in Tampa with empty corn syrup cars passing Street Crust food trailer at the corner of Polk and Tampa streets.
Conductor Barker gives the fly fisherman below a big wave as Job 1 rumbles west over the East Outlet of the Kennebec River at Moosehead, Maine. A pair of SD40-2Fs and a leased GP38-3 have about fifty cars as they chase the sunset towards Jackman, ultimately losing the race. This is the last place on earth where one can see the former Canadian Pacific SD40-2Fs running around, and it's well worth the time spent up here shooting them.
Canadian Pacific train 251 idles in the early morning hours outside the old depot in Jackman, Maine, awaiting its recrew in the morning. CMQ SD40-2F 9020 is the point of a five pack of EMD's including two CMQ SD40-2F's, a CP SD40-2 and GP20ECO, and a CEFX GP38-3.
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CP Moosehead Sub
Jackman, ME
CP 251 (Manifest; Brownville, Junction, ME to Montreal, QC)
CMQ 9020 SD40-2F Ex. CP 9020 Blt. 1988
CP 6024 SD40-2 Blt. 1981
CMQ 9011 SD40-2F Ex. CP 9011 Blt. 1988
CP 2318 GP20C-ECO Ex. ??? Blt ???
CEFX 6537 GP38-3 Ex. SP 6537 GP35, SP 7425 Blt. 1964
After switching at the Lehigh Cement facility in Union Bridge, the UBEG is now on its way to Emory Grove as seen from Medford Road.
Y295 rolls down the middle of Polk Street in Tampa, FL.
This line still has several customers, but only the tank car receivers seem to be consistent.
NOGC power tied up in Gouldsboro Yard in Gretna, Louisiana underneath the spans of the Crescent City Connection.
CMQ's Job 2 drifts downgrade into Bodfish in the morning sun, which is a fairly unusual occurrence, as normally it goes through in the afternoon or evening. One of the ten surviving SD40-2Fs, the 9010 is leading a leased SD40-2, and CMQ GP38-3 3816, with forty-nine cars. The train will reach Brownville Junction in about an hour, then get to work on making up Job 1, for an afternoon departure out of Brownville Junction.
A pair of EMD's power Norfolk Southern local C22 passes by the yard office and tower as it pulls out of Rockport Yard in Cleveland, Ohio with a train of loaded coke cars bound for the Cleveland Cliffs steel mill in The Flats. In the lead is NS 5813, a GP38-3 that was rebuilt from a GP50 originally built for the Southern Railway.
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NS Cloggsville Line
Cleveland, OH
NS C22 (Coke Loads; Rockport, OH to Cleveland, OH)
NS 5813 GP38-3 Ex. NS 7031 GP50, SOU 7031 Blt. 1980
NS 6333 SD40E Ex. NS 5407 SD50, CR 6713 Blt. 1983
Terminal Railroad's 103 job turns off the MacArthur Bridge at St. Louis, MO and heads down the South Approach towards Miller Yard. The Terminal crew will hand their train off to "The" Prairie Rail operation on its first day serving the Anheuser-Busch InBev factory.
The concrete viaduct in the foreground is the so-called "Hill" track, connecting UP's Lesperance Yard with TRRA's Westbound Main through St. Louis at Poplar South, and TRRA's High Line at Poplar Street. The ground level track looks like it connected to street trackage in front of the Arch, before that trackage was removed. It's now used for headroom when crews work the north end of Lesperance.
After several years with no luck at this spot, I seem to have hit a winning streak, this being the third such move I've caught in as many weeks. Credit goes to WR for a similar shot posted a week or so ago. Wish I had a drone...
GP38-3 2175 shoves a two-bay hopper into the narrow confines of the Holophane plant in Newark, Ohio, on April 18, 2021.
TRRA T105 eases down the North Approach of the MacArthur Bridge in East St Louis with a transfer from the Miller Yard. TRRA 2006 / 2010 provide the locomotion for three IC SD70s, 3 malt empties and 3 tank cars. The SD70's received work at MEI's shop at the former Manufacturers Railway. The BNSF cars are malt empties from the In-Bev brewery. The tank cars are from a riverside facility just off the Miller Yard. Miller Yard is the interchange point for TRRA and The Prairie Line just south of downtown St. Louis. The train was returning to the TRRA Madison Yard.
03-06-2021
Maryland Midland's UBEG splits the abandoned block signals at the 41.2 milepost in New Windsor MD, October 22, 2020. The train was a short one today and was sent out with only the two GP38s on the roster. Nevertheless, they stalled a Few of times climbing out of the Wakefield Valley. A couple of times the crew cut away from the train and went ahead lite sanding the rails for traction.
VTR 206 leads a train of interchange traffic across the Walloomsac River at North Hoosick, NY amid some nice fall color. Hoosick Jct. is only a short distance ahead. For many years 206 operated wearing this neatly touched-up RailTex paint scheme. It was only recently repainted into the current standard Vermont Rail System red livery.
VTR 206 GP38-3 (ex-SOU 2741)
The RCPE is pretty quiet on Sundays. We caught up with a 1 unit local with a west facing unit and heard over the scanner he only had one more customer to service, We heard a local switching at Redfield. While we did find them, they were making the final moves spotting the elevators . A new crew will be called later in the day after the sun had gone down of course.
The Gateway Arch stands proud at blue hour, as Terminal Railroad’s T201 job to BNSF’s Lindenwood Yard, cuts through the heart of downtown St. Louis, MO with TRRA 2005/2008, both GP38-3s. Seen here popping out of one of three bridge tunnels in the trench through the Gateway Arch National State Park on the TRRA Merchants Sub, otherwise called the “High Line.” Taken: 3-5-21
Union Pacific GP38-3 No. 2521 and GP39-2 No. 2372 pull 20 loads of limestone through Leland, Utah on the Tintic Industrial Lead the morning of Sept. 22, 1998. The D&RGW hoppers were loaded at Geneva’s Keigley quarry in Genola and will be delivered to Geneva’s steel mill in Vineyard.
A year ago Y32210 traverses the stem of the Downtown Spur, former SAL main to their Miami station, back to reenter the South Florida Rail Corridor (CSX Miami Sub) to return to Hialeah Yard. Currently I am modeling a GP38-3 in HO to possibly run on various layouts, but it can't be 2055 since 2055 has early model radiators. Very cool crew on board.
Having arrived at Hoosick Junction Vermont Railway train RDHJ is making some moves to drop and pull their interchange with CSXT's ex Pan Am Railways. With the prior delivery still there they had to couple to those cars on the west leg of the wye and now they are in the process of shoving those to clear down Main 1 west of CPF 445 so they can continue their work. But I didn't wait around to watch them work and instead head back toward Salem after a local gentleman told me the BK was planning a late afternoon run after all!
Here is VTR GP38-3 201 (blt. Dec. 1972 new for the railroad) framed up under the abandoned Boston and Maine era signal bridge amidst some gorgeous fall color. This unit is freshly repainted in red dip with the new style lettering. Here is what she looked like the last time I saw her just before going into the North Walpole paint booth:
Hoosick, New York
Monday October 17, 2022
A local shoves past Winston Wye and under the old Searchlight signals that still stand guard over this short stretch of track. While the sun is almost fully out behind me, storm clouds line the horizon facing east.
The 1890 era Merchants Bridge is undergoing a multi-year, multi million dollar project to replace the approaches and the superstructure. For now, traffic continues to roll over a single track of the double track bridge. TRRA has a reliable Mon-Fri job that runs over to the Central and West Belts in St Louis. Summer sun favors the north side of the bridge. All it took on this 90+ degree evening were bikes for the kids, a jug of water and a bit of a stroll down the bike path that parallels the Mississippi River.
2006 & 2010 bring Job 202 west into St Louis with 22 loads for customers on the Central Belt, West Belt and interchange cars with the West Belt Railway and Central Midland Railway.
Interesting video showing rebuilding plans here:
www.thefreightway.com/merchants-bridge-replacement-projec...
07-24-2020
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Thanks to an MM heads up and very little going on at work, I was able to burn off a couple of hours of PTO and catch one of my "white whales". In the last 10 years, I've only ever caught two moves on the South Approach to the MacArthur Bridge - one was the last MRS run and the other was a UP yard job with a lease unit. Both of those were northbound. The best lit would need to be a southward move in the morning - which brings us to this morning.
The 104 job had 1 CN engine and 8 cars to take down to the Miller Yard. Luckily the train was at the south end of Madison Yard which was the sign that they would roll south down the Eads Main to Q Tower then over the MacArthur. Little bit of ATCS magic and then it was "F8 and Be There."
04-20-2020
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After switching customers at the end of the line at Petersburg, the South Branch Valley RR crew heads for Moorefield. GP38-3 102 and GP9 92 are on the head end while Chessie painted GP9 6240 brings up the rear. The engine on the rear will make for an easier move to p/u at the facing point switch to the Pilgrim's Pride feed mill at Moorefield.
JJL and I ventured over to Ohio to spend some time on a recent start-up. The Belpre Industrial Park Railroad took over the operation of the CSX's former Marietta Sub and the Belpre industrial park. They roster 4 GP38-3's all painted but they need something on the nose
Job 1 rolls around the curve near Moose Bay on a pleasant Saturday evening, with CMQ 9023 leading another barn and a GP38-3. This spot is about a ten minute hike in from the main road, and while not nearly as open as it looks on google maps, still a fairly neat spot, although I could have used a few more minutes to get a better angle here.
A trip to the Cafe Du Monde and a chase of a southbound NOGC grain train deep into Plaquemines Parish kicked off 2021 for me. I'm back on the streets of Gretna as NOGC #1023, ex-A&WP GP40 rebuilt into GP38-3 specs at Boise, leads a sixty car grain train down former Missouri Pacific street-running towards CHS near Alliance.