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A pair of Union Pacific GPs lead the Davis local east out of Ozol yard in Martinez, CA on a September morning. I really enjoyed shooting the plethora of 4 axle EMDs on UP in the Bay Area, you could always count on something interesting turning up on the locals.
Rio Grande GP40 No. 3132, an EMD that began its service life as Penn Central No. 3115, leads Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 through Mapleton, Utah the morning of Aug. 29, 1987.
A trio of Alaskan GP40-2s spring south along the rock shores of the Turnagain Arm with a hefty outbound train for the barge at Whittier. Taking point is one of three remaining geeps in their as-delivered "Black & Yellow" colors.
ARR 120S @ Brird Creek Bridge, Bird Creek, AK
ARR GP40-2 3001 (Original Paint)
ARR GP40-2 3007
ARR GP40-2 3005
Rio Grande GP40-2s No. 3101, 3111, and GP40 No. 3148 shove four loads of turkey feed along the Spanish Fork Sugar Factory spur off the Tintic Branch on March 16, 1995. In the sugar factory yard, the grain will be transferred to trucks which will ship the product 54 miles to the Norbest turkey farm in Moroni, Utah.
Guilford painted GP40 305 is seen leading CSX's SAPPI-3 local west along the Kennebec River towards Shawmut. The once ubiquitous Guilford painted GP40s have now been whittled down to a grand total of three still in operation under CSX ownership.
The Chessie Safety Express, with C&O 614, ran from Silver Spring, Maryland to Philadelphia and return on September 20, 1981. Anticipating an unchaseable train with a long layover in Philadelphia, a friend and I shot the steam excursion outside of Baltimore (why didn’t we go to Perryville?) and spent the day railfanning the Baltimore area. Returning home to Pennsylvania in the evening, we stopped at Aiken, Maryland, where we found an eastbound B&O TOFC train with a single GP40 for power. The engineer agreed to cooperate with us for a nocturnal image, and verified that the 614 was only a few minutes away. After taking the photo, we watched the magic of a 4-8-4 with a heavy train making track speed in the darkness.
Buffalo & Pittsburgh train BT-3 passes a cornfield as it approaches Gameland Road south of Chicora on the Northern Sub.
D&RGW GP40-2 No. 3104 had the honor of leading the Rio Grande Zephyr, train No. 18 through Price Canyon at Castle Gate, Utah on May 27, 1979. One of the regular F9B units was at Burnham shops in Denver for a rebuild and repaint.
A GP40-2 trio led by a former Reading unit brings TV200 through East Rutherford, NJ. The train is operating on NJ Transit's Bergen County Line for the last few miles of its journey east into Croxton Yard and South Kearny. The industrial decay in the background has been replaced by apartments...of course. As of the date of this photo, Conrail had already shifted most double stack traffic from former Erie Lines to a routing via former New York Central lines, as a clearance project on the latter had been completed.
Conrail TV-200:
CR 3279 GP40-2 (ex-RDG 3675)
CR 3282 GP40-2
CR 3370 GP40-2
Having completed its journey over the Hill track through Laureldale, a westbound Conrail manifest joins the former Reading main line alongside the Reading yard. It appears that the train has no work in Reading, and is continuing on to Harrisburg. Today, the Hill Track’s right of way is largely unrecognizable.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3101 and GP40 No. 3085 pull the Tintic Local through a foggy landscape in Spanish Fork, Utah the afternoon of Dec. 27, 1994.
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac GP40-127, CSX-Chessie System GP40-2-4329, CSX-Louisville & Nashville GP38-2-2565 & RF&P GP40-2-142 are on the point of W/B train 171. Here, passing under US Rt. 40, coming off of single track onto track one of CSX's Philadelphia Sub. Unfortunately, the silos and color position light signals are long gone.
Canadian Pacific GP40-2 No. 4654 and Delaware & Hudson GP38-2 No. 7303 switch at Taylor Yard in Taylor, PA on Oct. 14, 2002.
Southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac intermodal train No. 191 (Potomac Yard-Atlanta) hammers through Doswell, VA on August 25, 1988 with GP40 No. 122 and CSX GP40-2 No. 6158.
Rio Grande GP40-2s No. 3116 and 3114 are tucked away in a siding while SP SD40T-2 No. 8489 sits on the mainline at Riverton, Utah the afternoon of June 24, 1996. Both train crews have expired on the maximum 12 hours of service law 12 miles from Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. Relief crews are on the way.
CSX GP40-2 #6393 leads local A700 rumbling eastbound through rural Taylorsville Georgia along the former SAL Rockmart - Cartersville connection.
The Union Pacific Tracy local approaches Tracy as it passes a twilight signal just east of town with a pair of EMD GP40-2s.
Conrail GP40-2-3400, GP38-2-8061, U23Bs 2717 & 2763, & B23-7s 2811 & 1917 are parked, awaiting a new crew, in CR's Enola Yard.
A 4 pack of GP40-2W's used to be quite common on mainline CN before 6 axle power took over. For a brief few days L580/L581 out of Brantford ran with 4 GP40-2W's. Boy did they sound good with 100 cars on the drawbar on their way to Garnet for interchange with the SOR.
Two pairs of Allegheny Valley Railroad GPs work the east end of Glennwood yard on a warm June morning. After making a few switching moves, the GPs would take a break and clear up allowing a pair of SD60s to come out of the yard and cross the river.
Led by former Milwaukee Road “bandit” GP40 No. 2040, along with a couple of Canadian National SD40s, is an eastbound Soo Line freight momentarily waiting for a signal on the main line at Duplainville, Wisconsin, at 1 a.m. on June 27, 1987. What was I doing setting up a tripod and wasting a couple of 5B flashbulbs trying to photograph a mostly black on black bandit patch job during the “darkest hours of the night”? Beats me.
Rio Grande GP40 No. 3131 and GP40-2 No. 3130 pull a four-car Midvale Tramp through West Jordan, Utah the morning of June 12, 1998. Today this right of way hosts UTA's 'Red Line' light rail route to Daybreak in South Jordan.
Westbound Conrail tonnage passes through Catasauqua, Pennsylvania on the former Jersey Central main line. Three former Erie Lackawanna work cars, a baggage car and two troop sleepers, are on the headpin, possible on their way to the newly-relocated Steamtown USA in Scranton.
New England Central Railroad's woodchip train no. 500 has just left the McNeil Generating station as it crosses Winooski, north of Burlington. GP40-2LW 3037 was built in 1974 as CN 9519, and lead the train towards Saint-Albans Italy yard.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3117 leads Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 5 between Maxwell (Carbonville) and Spring Glen, Utah the evening of June 8, 1985. In the background along the base of the cliff is the previous alignment that was bypassed in 1967 with a line change that eliminated three sharp curves on a 1% grade.
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. Crossing the long gone trestle at Ft. Holabird.
Two GP40-2’s and three U30B’s are in charge of a westbound Chesapeake & Ohio train at Charlottesville, Virginia.
Southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac intermodal train No. 191 (Potomac Yard-Atlanta) hammers across the CSX diamond at Doswell, VA on Jan. 3, 1987 with GP40 No. 127, GP40-2 No. 143 and GP40 No. 126.
In 2022 I could have gone to the MRL, or the Iron Range, but I decided to forgo the crowds of photographers and head back to Northern Alberta with a good friend in tow.
Our goal was to shoot GP40's on CN's Manning and Meander River subdivisions, both of which are restricted to 4 axle locomotives. That's 377 Miles of rail stretching from Roma Junction Alberta to Hay River Northwest Territories, which is a lot of ground to cover.
In three days we shot a "Disgusting" amount of GP40-2W models on the line, which is a pretty decent outcome considering a lot of the running is done overnight.
Our first day netted this six pack of geeps hauling train L532 south at Mile 12 of the Manning Sub. The trailing 2 units and the head end block of cars were part of a work train that was lifted by the daily L532 at Manning.
I'd never thought the IC 3140 could fuck up a perfect consist, but the Unicorn of the fleet is now assigned to the North, and seems to get along with it's Canadian cousins.
With an ex-Boston & Maine GP40-2 on the point, GMRC 263 steps out over the Mill River in Cuttingsville with the weekly Saturday slurry train. Despite the weather forecast showing cloudy with a decent chance of rain, the first few shots of these guys my friend Derek and I got were in the sun, although the clouds did roll in later. While obviously the VTR 308 isn't too far from it's original home, the second engine, GP38-2 2684, started out as a B&O GP40, and the 431 was built for the Florida East Coast.
Viewed from the 11th Street overpass, a westbound Conrail manifest creeps through the center of Laureldale, Pennsylvania on the former Reading Hill Track. Long out-of service, the line was reopened as a result of a landslide on the Blandon Low Grade. After the Low Grade was restored, the Hill Track was again taken out of service and ultimately removed. A view of the site on Google Earth barely gives a hint of why the overpass even exists.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3096 leads an ROGJM through Sutro (Spanish Fork), Utah the morning of June 16, 1990.
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac manifest No. 176 highballs north at Hunton, VA on Oct. 30, 1976, led by GP40 No. 122.
Train BP4 peaks out of the Cal Sag bridge on the other side of Blue Island JCT with IHB 3861 (SD38-2) leading IHB 4018 (GP40-2). Seen here rounding the curve at CP 154 enroute to UP’s Proviso Yard along the IHB West Line. Taken: 4-12-21.
The fate of the unit is still unknown, as former MILW SD40-2 is to be rumored on its “last legs” soon to be retired later in the year, guess we’ll see.
Troy Grove local, LPJ05 21, "wyes" around from the Geneva sub to the Troy Grove sub. The leader is a very nice looking GP40-2, ex SP 7666. The tracks to the left is the Geneva sub and the coal chute survives time and was built to probably outlast the Union Pacific as a railroad. Power 1417 and 4804.
Conrail, CR GP40-2's #3396 - #3333 - #3000, westbound at Rochester, Pennsylvania. March 13, 1987 Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Way back in December 1994, SOO Line 6240 and 4421 hold near Mannheim Rd in Franklin Park IL as a CSX transfer with GP40-2 6441 and slug enter the east end of SOO's Bensenville Yard. SOO 6240 is an ex MN&S SD39, one of only 2 on the roster. #SOO #SooLine #EMD #SD39 #FranklinParkIllinois #BensenvilleYard #CSX #Trains #Railroads #Railroadphotography #ChicagolandTrains #Film #B&W #BlackandWhite #ArtGrossPhotography
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3105 leads Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 through Provo Junction at 8:03 a.m. on Sept. 5, 1987.
D&RGW southbound freight headed by GP40-2, ex-Conrail GP40, SP SD45, SP SD40T-2 (3128….) crosses old U.S.85 ("Spruce Mountain Road".) This train is on the Santa Fe main while the northbound side was the Rio Grande's. I'm a little fuzzy on "Joint Line" matters and, as I recall, my Denver friend was along on this chase. Being a dispatcher on the Grande, he was a well informed guide on these things. Obviously the markings on the bridge are a good source of defining the ownership. The northbound and southbound mains were on separate alignments, and in a misguided attempt to cut costs - which was already coming back to haunt them - the Santa Fe main was eliminated through Colorado Springs and a CTC single track bottleneck was created...just perfect for all the C&S coal train traffic that was growing by leaps and bounds. The C&S had abandoned their own mainline between Denver and Pueblo many years ago, and their trains were run on trackage rights between those two points (actually, I think that Santa Fe crews ran C&S trains.)
Meanwhile, the Grande was experiencing a bit of a traffic surge themselves and had acquired some ex-Conrail GP40's. I think they were also acquiring the Espee as well - talk about the mouse swallowing the elephant - and that may explain the two SP units. In my experience and understanding, the Grande did not usually pool power with other railroads as they kept their own fleet "tuned up" for high altitude operations.
This single GP40 and one car sit beside a nondescript parking lot in the Granite State's capital city...a parking lot that once was a major classification yard where lines radiated in 5 directions including one of New England's most important north south thru routes. Now the Northern Mainline is a dead end industrial track that sees this lonely local come up from Nashua two days a week on a long slogging 10 mph trip.
Prior to 1959 the train shed and imposing granite Concord Union Station stood just off to the left. But that year it was demolished in favor of 1500 parking spots and a new shopping center and grocery that don't quite seem so modern 60 year later.
This is Pan Am local NA-1 with MEC 316 (blt. Nov. 1968 as PC 3209) and amazingly this crew started their day just a few miles south of here after being taxied up from Nashua, and in their 8 hr shift will traverse little more than 10 miles of railroad. They ran north to Concord and worked a couple customers, ran around, and then started back south working Ciment Quebec before tying up for the day at Ferry Street in Bow to taxi back to Nashua.
Oh and in case you're like me and have long wondered about that building providing the backdrop (yes the same one you see prominently when driving north on I93 toward the White Mountains) well here is a little article about it that I found to quench my curiosity: www.concordmonitor.com/Ralph-Billl-building-history-recen...
Concord, New Hampshire
Thursday July 2, 2020
A pair of GP40-2s led by WM #4365 are at RH tower near Cincinnati on Sunday June 7th 1987. E Donald Smith photo, JL Sessa collection.
A pair of Kanawha River Terminal GP40-2LW's shuffle coal loads at the railroad's yard in Ceredo, West Virginia on an October afternoon. These cars were brought in from the interchange with CSX and will be dumped here for loading on to barges on the Ohio River.
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Kanawha River Terminal Railroad
Ceredo, WV
Unknown Symbol (Coal Loads; Ceredo, WV)
KRT 1100 GP40-2LW Ex. CN 9505 Blt. 1974
KRT 1200 GP40-2LW Ex. CN 9638 Blt. 1976
(SEE & HEAR)---CSX GP40 6585 -GP38 2050 -GP40-2 6504 -GP30 4210, with eastbound R396 at Salisbury Junction, Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
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6585, built as B&O 4010, 9/1971.
2050, built as C&O 3850, 10/1967.
6504, built as SCL 1646. 4/1972.
4210, built as C&O 3015,1/1963.
fb, 8/31/2023.