CSX ATC-equipped GP40-2 No. 6248 and four six-axle GE's lead southbound manifest R409 across Quantico Creek on the RF&P Subdivision at Quantico, VA on a frigid Jan. 14, 1996.

In the hole at Garrett, Pennsylvania, aa empty CSX hopper train waits for a power swap.

Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3095 leads 10 EMDs on an eastbound train through Spanish Fork Canyon at Mil Fork, Utah on April 15, 1978.

Burlington Northern EMD GP40

A Chesapeake & Ohio local accelerates eastward under myriad wires and over the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac main line at Doswell, Virginia. An RF&P local can be seen in the extreme right distance.

A Chesapeake & Ohio SD50 has arrived on the former Baltimore & Ohio main line at Garrett, Pennsylvania. The crew of a westbound hopper train has cut off their lead GP40 to couple to the SD50. In a few minutes it became apparent that the power was being rearranged to take the train east.

Z127 south

After a Chesapeake & Ohio SD50 arrived next to an empty CSX hopper train in Garrett, Pennsylvania, the train’s power was reconfigured. After the lead GP40 pulled onto the main line, it was coupled to the SD50, and they pulled forward to allow the trailing units to be placed on the main. The two units then coupled to the train, and are seen here ready to pull the train onto the main.

A pair of matching GP40-2's lead CSX local L316 as it soars over the Cuyahoga River Valley on the Marcy Trestle in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. This local job is on the eastbound leg of its journey as it transfers cars between the CSX yards in Parma and Collinwood.

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CSX Cleveland Short Line Sub

Cuyahoga Heights, OH

CSX L316-08 (Local; Parma, OH to Collinwood, OH)

CSX 6947 GP40-2 Ex. CSX 6495, CO 4387 Blt.1980

CSX 6466 GP40-2 Ex. CSX 6370, SBD 6604, LN 6604 Blt. 1980

Buffalo & Pittsburgh train BT-3 crosses a trestle in the town of Chicora, PA on the Northern Subdivision.

GP40 leads a manifest at Park Junction in 1987. The squiggly track to the left is what Amtrak negotiated each day. They changed the track but even so, now Amtrak mostly comes down the Midway sub.

Conrail GP40-2-3320, with B40-8s 5084 & 5085, is leading W/B train Mail 3 (Kearney, NJ to East St. Louis, IL) on track one of the Pittsburgh Line.

MEC GP40 374 is in charge of a westbound (POED?) in August of 2016 as they lean into the curve at North Berwick, Maine. The days of solid GP units on road jobs are long gone, and as of this last week so is the 374. It was the last high hood at Waterville and was torched this week as they finish up scrapping of about 20 units.

One of the neater things about working Argo tower in Summit, IL, other than getting paid for looking at trains all day, was watching ICG's Slingshots fly by the tower, Here comes one now, P43 with one GP40 and 12 cars. Seeing a GP40 on a one of these was a little unusual; the short fast pig trains usually rated a GP30 or GP35, and sometimes maybe one or two Paducah Geeps. The 3009, seen here in June of 1983, is about to cruise over the IHB diamonds on its way south. You always had to consider what traffic to run and when. While most traffic on the former GM&O was pretty quick, the trains on the Harbor usually ran like a three legged turtle. It was the same with McCook crossing, which Argo operated via remote control. Over there, which was just under a mile away, it was the Santa Fe that flew by on its way west. Only problem was that we ran probably three trains on the Harbor to just one of the two faster railroads. It could be a delicate balancing act at times, and not all players could be happy at the same time.

GP40 #7 has drawn work train service supporting a tie gang working west of Staunton. Here they are Westbound at Fisherville, 3 seconds after they passed we had sun once again.

GP40-2s-4364 (WM), 4378 (C&O) & 4233 (B&O) are making their way to Gray's Yard at Sparrows Point with the stone train. Seen here from the Peninsula Expressway overpass.

Alaska Railroad's Galcier Discovery to Whittier enters the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet (part of Pacific Ocean) at Potter south of Anchorage.

A INRD GP40 slug set leads the Palestine turn into New Lebanon. Usually this train goes all the way to Jasonville, but on this particular day they tied up in Sullivan and grabbed a NS coal train and took it down to Oaktown.

Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac GP40-127, CSX GP38-2-2672 & B36-7-5901 (both in Seaboard System paint), CSX GP30M-4255 (in Chessie System paint) & RF&P GP40-123 are on the point of W/B train R-171 approaching the Rt. 166/I-195 overpass on track one of CSX's Baltimore Terminal Sub.

CSX GP40-2 No. 6391 leads eastbound manifest Q382 down Sand Patch Grade at Philson, PA on Feb. 6, 2000.

A westbound Baltimore & Ohio manifest passes through Doe Gully, WV on Sept. 17, 1978. led by GP40 No. 4050.

After switching the team track at Grimshaw Alberta, the L506 crew head for Roma Junction with three GP40's in charge.

CSX GP40-2 6145 leads R207 as it crosses over the Mud River and Route 60 in Barboursville, West Virginia with 5 empty gondolas in tow. These cars are bound for the CSX Bridgeworks that is located in the center of the Barboursville Wye and junction with the Logan Sub. The crew will drop these empties and pick up five cars loaded with bridge parts to be sent for installation on the CSX system.

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CSX Kanawha Sub

Barboursville, WV

CSX R207-24 (Local; Russell, KY to Barboursville, WV Turn)

CSX 6145 GP40-2 Ex. BO 4145 Blt. 1972

Southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac intermodal train No. 227 (Potomac Yard-Atlanta) blasts through Doswell, VA on Feb. 20, 1983 with GP40-2 No. 144 and GP40 No. 121.

An EMD GP40, SD7E, and a GP30 pull a 63-car Roper - Provo Turn through the Salt Lake Valley between Midvale and Riverton, Utah on June 12, 1993. With numerous Class 1 mergers, the 1990s were a great time to be trackside.

Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3107 leads the DVROT through Spanish Fork Canyon at Rio, Utah the evening of June 17, 1990.

Clarendon & Pittsford GP40-2 306 is seen leading a small nine car train south down the fabled Conn River line at Lyndonville, reflecting into the calm Passumpsic River below. Despite a lengthy wait above town for track crews to clear out by St. Johnsbury, my friend Ryan and I still had plenty of time to continue the chase south all the way down to White River Junction.

Work complete, three GP40-2's, one each from B&O, C&O and WM, take the Chesapeake & Ohio Piedmont East End Local east at Doswell, VA on Nov. 4, 1986.

Westbound CSX manifest No. 397 rounds the broad curve west of Orleans Road, WV on the former B&O Magnolia Cut Off on Nov. 7, 1987 with two former SCL GP40's and a C30-7.

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac GP40-2-141, CSX/Family Lines GP40-6824, CSX/Seaboard System B23-7-3126, CSX/FL U23B-3237 & RF&P GP40-2-146 are on the point of W/B CSX train #171 (Orange Blossom Special Service). Here, with the City of Baltimore skyline in the background, approaching the Hollins Ferry Road grade crossing on CSX's Washington Sub. RF&P would be folded into CSX in 1991.

After some bloodletting to work at Collier Yard in Petersburg, VA , a Seaboard Coast Line manifest, likely No. 105, heads south on Sept. 15, 1975 with two GP40's and a U30C.

Two of Boston & Maine’s patched ex-Conrail GP40’s lead a northbound Delaware & Hudson train past the site of the Lehigh Valley’s Mauch Chunk passenger station, by then a supermarket parking lot. By this time, Guilford was buying any secondhand power that they could get their hands on, changing the colorful variety of lashups on the D&H to just plain ugly.

Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3094 kicks up up a little snow while cresting Soldier Summit on New Year's Eve, 1994.

CSX GP40-2 brings a cut of cars out of their Bowater Yard in Catawba, South Carolina back in 2006. She was built as Baltimore & Ohio #4242 in 1975.

A NS GP40-2, IAIS SD38-2, & GP38-2 charging PESI through Sheffield, Illinois.

MKT southbound freight with 73 cars + caboose behind GP38, GP40 (308-203)

FEC GP40-2 436 and FEC GP38-2 510 take a short train 103 south at Highland Drive in Cocoa, FL, destined for Fort Pierce, FL.

The lead unit is one of two GP40-2s on the roster painted in a special Breast Cancer Awareness scheme. The trailing unit is one of only three units on the roster left with the Going Places logo, often nicknamed the “hurricane” logo on the long hood. 510 is also the only unit on the roster that retains its rear candy cane stripes.

W&LE 663 swapped scrap empties for loads with Omnitrax's Cleveland & Cuyahoga on November 1st, 2021 at Glen Willow. The 302 (and 701 in tow) have the loads tacked behind while everyone's favorite Cleveland Cuyahoga Conductor is getting his empties lined up for the trip back to the scrap dealer. In the background Solon's Mt Garbage Dump might likely become the highest elevation in the county.

The 302 is a GP40-3 originally built for PC that later spent time on the D&RGW. It still carries the Action Orange of the Rio Grande even though it was rebuilt by the Wheeling. Seems it probably always will as it is clearly the railroad owners preference. This was my first experience with the higher speed limits on the Cleveland sub. No longer is it the leisurely 10 mph chase. It's pick your spots because you won't get many now.

After switching Jones chemical, Rochester & Southern train BL-1 slowly makes its way down the old New York Central Peanut line as it passes an orginal NYC station in the town of Caledonia, NY. Caledonia was once home to a total of five railroads (B&O, LV, NYC, Erie, G&W) which all converged together at P&L junction, just a mile west of this location. While the R&S is the only active railroad in town, bits and pieces of all but the Erie are used today, as to get to the Peanut the train briefly hops on the old G&W from the B&O, then for about 500 ft utilizes the LV before making an S curve to join the NYC alignment.

A quartet of former Chessie System GP40-2s (B&O 4236, 4125, 4246 & C&O 6275) are leading E/B train #138 (Chicago, IL to Penn Mary Jct., East Baltimore, MD), with a five pack of short stacks up front. Here, crossing from track two to track three on CSX's Washington Sub, later the Baltimore Terminal Sub.

GP40 226, with a slug trailing, westbound near Kirkwood, Mo.*

Kodachrome my collection, photographer unknown.

As soon as a Reading-bound train departed the yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania, it had to cross the Lehigh River on the former Allentown Terminal bridge. Here a Conrail manifest gets under way on a brisk January morning.

CSXT GP40-2 #6394 of RF&P heritage leads CSX local L810 through Taylorsville, GA.

Utah Railway GP40 No. 3000 and BNSF SD40-2 No. 7163 pull an RUT611 local through Lehi, Utah on Oct. 20, 2007.

RMRX GP40-3s No. 8020 and 8021 lead the westbound run of the Rocky Mountaineer heading towards East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel during some light snow.

MKT southbound freight passes tower at Frisco/Midland Valley crossing @1615 behind four GP40 (229- -172- .) This looks like a grain train and as it has divided the town's two sides, the Court Street viaduct in the far background (shown in John Leopard's excellent offerings) is the only way to gain access to either side. The interlocking tower stands where the Frisco branch from Okmulgee crosses the Katy, as well as the Midland Valley, which got folded into the MoPac/T&P by this time. Surely those two routes are gone, as is the tower. It shows up in the background of a few of my pictures, but of course I never got up close and personal with it, as it was always there, right John? My good friend and college roommate was from Muskogee, and I'm sure we were cruisin' around when this showed up. By now Dave was used to looking for those headlights, and of course he and his girlfriend (who is now his wife) knew that a stop was mandatory!

Even common, everyday Genesee & Wyoming livery looks great with a background like the Wasatch Front. Utah Railway's RUT311 local departs Salt Lake City for Woods Cross on May 2, 2017.

Two new Southern Pacific GP40-2's lead an ICG freight arriving at Venice Yard. Soon the SP power will be delivered to home rails in East St. Louis.

3-22-1980

WM GP40-2 #4260 at Cincinnati Ohio in July 1978. Bryan Rice photo, JL Sessa collection.

Identity crisis. Ex Penn Central-Conrail GP40-3253 is lettered for Boston & Maine & numbered 332. Its followed by Delaware & Hudson GP39-2-7414 (ex Reading 3414) & Guilford painted-lettered Boston & Maine GP39-2s-350 & 356, which are former D&H units 7610 & 7616. Phew! The train is S/B RPPY-Rouses Point, NY to Potomac Yard, VA. Its parked in Conrail's KW Yard.