EMD GP40-2 Locomotives
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Milwaukee Road EMD GP40 No. 2001 leads Soo Line train 249 westbound out of the yard at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on October 3, 1987. A man in the elevated signal tower on the right still manually controls the nearby road grade crossings signals and gates at this late date.
Westbound CSX hotshot No. 397 blasts past HO Tower in Hancock, WV on Oct. 5, 1988, led by GP40 No. 6564. Those covered hoppers to the left are for loading at the Pennsylvania Glass Sand Co. plant on the Berkeley Springs Branch.
With 14,197-foot Mount Princeton towering in the background, Rio Grande GP40 No. 3075 and Cotton Belt GP40-2 No. 7291 power a five-car local of zinc concentrate between Brown Cañon siding and Salida, Colorado, on January 9, 1998. For a year-and-a-half after Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a once-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, near Leadville, on a round trip that took two days. Looks like they are losing some of the zinc ore out of the three gons without covers on this somewhat faster section of track approaching Salida.
On January 9, 1998, Rio Grande GP40 No. 3075 and Cotton Belt GP40-2 No. 7291 power a five-car local of zinc concentrate along the Arkansas River through Browns Canyon, Colorado. For a year-and-a-half after Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a one-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, near Leadville, on a round trip that took two days.
GP40-2034 is leading a W/B general freight passing Duplainville Tower as it crosses the SOO Line diamond.
GP40-2 6962 and roadmate 2363 lead a short local by downtown Pittsburgh framed by the West End Bridge.
A GP40/SD50 combo pulls an empty CSX hopper train put of the siding and then from Main 2 to Main 1 at Garrett, Pennsylvania, These are the helpers, and as soon as the cars are clear of the crossover, the poser on the distance will couple to the other end to lead the train east.
Westbound empty hoppers have just left Altoona, Pennsylvania for the coal fields of western Pennsylvania. A Conrail GP40-2/SD40-2 combo is working hard to get to Cresson.
Chessie System GP40-2-4239 & GP30-6931 (both sub-lettered for B&O) are W/B on track two of the Washington Sub with symbol freight SL-49. Note the E/B CPL signal, far right, above the pole line.
Four SD40Ns and a GP40-2 take the YSPMP back to the Belt from East Minneapolis. Pretty neat to see a quintet of standard cab EMDs powering a Class I train in 2022.
CSXT GP40-2 #6393 leads local job A700 through the rolling countryside of northwest Georgia utilizing an ex SAL branch hence the milepost marking the distance to Richmond, VA. The ex RF&P EMD wasnt too bad either.
GP40-3 301 leads Monessen-Cleveland coke loads west by the searchlights at Pittsburgh Junction on the snow covered morning of Feb. 8, 2020.
Chessie System GP40-2s-4165 & 4428 are W/B in Weaverton, MD as they exit the big yard at Brunswick. To the left is US Rt. 340. The CPLs and shack are long gone.
The Copper Basin Magma Turn wrapping through the desert outside of Florence as they make their way towards from Hayden, AZ. Thanks to great help from a local railfan who gave the tip off on the run & nailed the time on when they’d hit Florence. As I pulled up I heard these guys working hard through the desert and had to make a running dash up the mountain. Made it up to the spot for the shot as they began to take the bend around the sweeping curve. Talk about timing! Felt like I was dying after, but the shot was worth it!
Rio Grande GP40-2s No. 3101, 3111 and GP40 No. 3148 pull the PRGVR across a wood pile trestle over Union Pacific’s Provo Subdivision in Payson, Utah on March 16, 1995. A UP coal train can be seen at a stand still, awaiting a signal to proceed west toward Sharp to load.
Now on the opposite end of their train, three four-axle EMD’s pull empty CSX hoppers east along the Casselman River in Garrett, Pennsylvania. A GP40/SD50 helper set is on the other end of the train.
A few minutes before sunset, the daily run-through train from Hagerstown, Maryland passes Conrail’s Rockville Tower in Rockville, Pennsylvania.
Had a delivery in Warren Pa. today. This sure made the trip worth while! Despite the nasty travel conditions, I had something to smile about! Thanks for looking!
Well Flickr doesn't do verticals any justice but I'll post one anyway!
One of the many GP40's assigned to CN's Northern Alberta lines awaits the call to duty at Roma Junction.
Chessie System GP40-2-GM50 is W/B on track one of the Washington Sub with an employee special. Note the E/B CPL signal just to the right of the last car.
Two GP40-2s 3003 and 3012 (both bought new for the railroad in 1975 and 1978 respectively) lead train 120S consisting of solid empty flats from Anchorage headed back to Whittier for COFC loading off weekly Alaska Marine Lines barge from Seattle. 3003 wears it's as delivered black and gold scheme, one of three presently remaining like this of 11 delivered this way (the first two orders). 3012 was part of the four unit third order from EMD and was actually delivered in the 'Alaska Bold' scheme with a US DOT nose herald. It was the last GP40-2 in that scheme when repainted into the current modern image in 2014.
This view off the Seward Highway above MP 81 looking toward Bird Point, the waters of Turnagain Arm and the jagged peaks of the Kenai Mountains beyond is a signature location along the ARR mainline.
Bird Point
Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska
Wednesday September 13, 2017
Akron Barberton Cluster's GP40 4005 leads train Z641 past downtown Akron. This is on CSX's New Castle sub, formerly B&O mainline to Chicago. In this view is St Bernard's Church, Quaker Square silos (now residences for U of A), and the concourse for the former Akron Union Station. Union Station served the B&O and PRR but the EL had their own station that would have been to the left of the unit. 4005 is a former CRIP, MP, UP, and DME unit that was rebuilt in the W&LE's Brewster shop. 50 years ago when I lived just off to the right, there were 5 tracks through here, 2 EL mainlines and 3 owned by Penn Central. Two of those were used mostly by the B&O.
An eastbound manifest departs Baltimore & Ohio's yard at Cumberland, MD on March 21, 1976 with WM GP40 No. 3799, a WM F7B and a N&W SD45. At this point, I think it would have still been considered a WM train, not B&O. I stand to be corrected on that, I am not certain.
FEC GP40-2 425 leads AFW1 back to the yard in Fort Pierce, FL after working and dropping ballast near Vero Beach, FL.
FEC 425 is one of two GP40-2s (the other being 436) that is painted in a special Susan G. Komen, Race for the Cure, Breast Cancer Awareness paint scheme. These units add a little splash of color to the typical blue shades of the GP40-2 roster.
The incomplete second main in the foreground has since been ballasted and placed into service.
SILOS & CPLs. Chessie System GP40-2-4288 & GP30-6957 are on the point of a W/B "bare table" train. They've just entered track one of the Philadelphia Sub at MP 84.5. The silos, paint scheme & CPLs are long gone. The US Rt. 40 overpass is in the distance.
GP40-2 303 leads Vermont Rail System’s Washington County Railroad train NPWJ south parallel to High Street in Barton, Vermont.
Not too far behind the heals of the Southbound "Denali Star," the second-to-last Anchorage-bound State Fair Train of the evening makes its appearance along the Glenn Highway on the outskirts of Eklunta, AK.
ARR state Fair Train @ Glenn Highway, Eklunta, AK
ARR GP40-2 3010
A pair of GP40-3's lead CSX local L160 as it crosses over the massive bridge over the Monongahela River into Munhall, Pennsylvania with a long string of hoppers in tow bound for the Shell Polymers plant in Monaca. Originating at the yard in Demmler, the train only made it to Braddock after departing the yard where they would hold to meet eastbound M370 before getting the light to come west across the bridge.
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CSX Pittsburgh Sub
Munhall, PA
CSX L160-22 (Local; Demmler, PA to Mckees Rocks, PA Turn)
CSX 6512 GP40-3 Ex. CSX 6120 GP38-2S, CSX 6120 GP40-2, BO 4221 Blt. 1975
CSX 6550 GP40-3 Ex. CSX 6017 GP40-2, BO 4117 Blt. 1972
This past Sunday's version of the Pan Am Railways WAAY "water train" was a flashback to the typical Guilford consist of ten years ago. The consist was an assortment of GP40 variants including 3 former CR/PC units (one of which was originally an EMD demonstrator), an ex NS/N&W high hood GP40 and an ex CN GP40-2LW. With the recent arrival of 20 ex CSX C40-8's, all EMD consists like this are becoming harder to get west of Rigby. The westbound train is passing the east end of the 2 mile passing siding at CPF307 in Westford. This part of the Pan Am Railways freight main, referred to in the B&M days as the Stony Brook Branch, was once double track the entire length from Ayer to North Chelmsford. The gap between the two tracks and the three track wide signal bridge reveal that there was once a middle siding at Westford, a feature that was somewhat common on the B&M.
Westford, Massachusetts
April 2, 2017
Chessie System GP40's 4026 & 4059 are on the point of a W/B TOFC train, on track one of the Baltimore Terminal Sub., as they pass under a classic B&O signal bridge.
It’s a beautiful sunny day on Chicago’s East Side, as The Belt Job or train AF-4 from CSS Bailly Yard, roars up hill in run 8 for “Big Blue” bridge over the NS Chicago District with a GP38-2/GP40-2 combo. CSS 2009 leads an leased out FURX 4226, as they head west through Hegewisch, IL, bound for Belt Railway of Chicago’s Commercial Ave Yard after crossing the Indiana/Illinois State Line. Taken: 11-8-22
GP40 3018 was the last road switcher to wear WC livery on CN's roster and is seen at Memphis, Tennessee on March 17, 2019. At the time one SW1500 was still working in WC colors, but has since been retired. As of April 2022 WC 3018 was still in active service which is surprising.
A former CN GP40 is right at home leading Richmond-Southwark train 393 into mile 50 of CN's Saint-Hyacinthe subdivision. At the rear of the train is an empty LBFX rail train. Consist : QGRY 3014, SLR 3035, RLHH 3403, SLR 3804, SLR 805.
RF&P GP40-2-147, CSX/Seaboard System B23-7-3126, a CSX/Family Lines U23B-???? and two other unidentified RF&P GPs are crossing Jackson Station Road. They're on the point of W/B CSX train 171, better known as the "Orange Blossom Special", on CSX's Philadelphia Sub. The Winch Road overpass is in the distance.
A Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 and a Chesapeake & Ohio B30-7 bring a train of empties through Danville, West Virginia. The S4 on the left belongs to the Southern Appalachian Coal Company (Julian Mines). It’s interesting that it is an as-built Alco, and not a Caterpillar re-engined “bug slug” more typical of mine power in the area.
Seaboard System GP40-6738, with GP30s-1369, 1337 & GP40-6696, are S/B on the Burgess Connection. They've just crossed Arthur Swamp and are approaching the Vaughan Road grade crossing.
The KCS Macon local heads back towards Artesia, Miss., led by three GP40-3s. The Artesia Sub was originally part of the GMO Chicago - Mobile main line.
Former Frisco GP40-2 no.3041 leads train No.19 off the Yellowstone Division and onto what was then becoming the east end of the Montana Rail Link. I was just beginning my five year tenure dispatching for the BN. I got hired at Billings, Montana, because I was a replacement for one of the BN guys that was defecting to the MRL's then being built DS office in Missoula. Unfortunately a month before this photo lighting struck a tree in the Yellowstone National Park causing the largest ever forest fire in this region. The haze in this picture is a result. Unfortunately the haze and smoke is evident in many of my Montana photos I took during the year that I lived there.
The Chief Dispatcher that hired me told me too not "get to comfortable" in Billings as the office was moving to Denver in a year.."no problem I don't mind going to Denver" I said...a year later in true rayroad fashion I was moving alright...to MINNEAPOLIS!
The IHB's Blue Island hump job has just cleared the diamond in Dixmoor, Illinois as they shove a long cut of cars up and over the hump. A GP40-2LW has been paired with a slug built from a converted NRE 3GS21B genset.
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IHB Main Line
Dixmoor, IL
IHB 590 (Yard Job; Blue Island Yard - Dixmoor, IL)
IHB 4021 GP40-2LW Ex. KLWX 9552, WGCR 9552, YVRR 9552, CN 9552 Blt. 1975
IHB 2021 Yard Slug Ex. IHB 2143 3GS21B Blt. 2011
During summer season of 2022, Alaska Railroad's Hurrcian Turn runs thursday to monday between Talkeetna and the Hurrican Gulch Bridge at milepost 284. The train turns on the bridge and goes back to Talkeetna after a short outlook stop. The main mission of this train is to connect some remote places and Talkeetna. So, it's possible to get on the train by put up a white flag on on designated areas. This is called "flag stop train".
The bridge is the longest (280m) and tallest (90m) bridge of Alaska Railroad.
Luckily for us, EMD F40PH 31 was at the south end of the train and was a nice alternation to the GPs and SD70s.
Five GP40-2's make quick work of taking a CSX train of empty hoppers west on the Magnolia Cut Off at Kessler, WV on a steamy July 24, 1987.
An eastbound Baltimore & Ohio manifest drops downgrade into the Cumberland Narrows at Eckhart Junction, MD on Oct. 22, 1978, led by GP40 No. 4020.