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On a sunny Spring morning, UP 1486 rolls eastward with the Eagle Lake Local in Stafford, southwest of Houston. UP 1486 was built as a GP40 for the MKT, rebuilt into a GP40M-2 for the SP, and eventually rebuilt into a GP40N for the UP.
LHT44 24 (Local- Eagle Lake, TX to Eureka Yard [Houston, TX[)
UP GP40N #1486
Stafford, TX
April 24th, 2020
Owned by the Adrian & Blissfield Railroad, the Jackson & Lansing (JAIL) is a shortline running about 50 miles from Jackson to Lansing, MI. Operating a leased NS branch line, they interchange with NS at Jackson and CN & CSX at Lansing.
The railroad's headquarters and shop are located at Mason, less than 15 miles south of Lansing. Here, a northbound train is staged in Mason with a recently repainted Adrian & Blissfield locomotive (JAIL doesn't own any engines themselves). ADBF 822 is actually a native Michigander, having started life for the Detroit, Toledo, & Ironton as DTI 410.
ADBF GP40-2 #822
Mason, MI
September 20th, 2023
Utah Railway Northbound Local Freight Train R-UT311 passes through Salt Lake City, Utah, they will work industries in North Salt Lake City, Utah & head back to Midvale City, Utah after their work is complete.
Buffalo and Pittsburgh EMD GP40 number 3101 shoves a pair of empty centerbeams from Morse Lumber across Canal Street in downtown Rochester, NY. The large brick building on the left was once part of the Cunningham Carriage Works, a producer of luxury carriages starting in 1842. In 1908 Cunningham started to produce automobiles in the factory, however, this only lasted until 1915. Nowadays Cunningham automobiles are very rare, with less than 80 left in existence.
Buckingham Branch RR GP40 No. 5 trails train Z631's power set through the passenger station at Staunton, VA on March 8, 2025.
With 11,068 ft. Provo Peak looming in the background, Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3120 leads a 4-hour late California Zephyr along the Mapleton Bench east of Springville, Utah on Christmas Eve, 1987.
NS GP40-2 3099 ( ex NW GP38AC 4126) passes the restored Reading Swatara station just outside Hershey, PA. The train, running as symbol H24, will bring it's cars to the Hershey Reese's plant just a few miles down the road.
A pair of Railamerica GP40-2LW's lead the New England Central's 608 train from Palmer as it slowly makes it way through Stafford Springs, Connecticut. The tracks make a large s-curve through the historic downtown as they follow the Middle River as it joins the Furnace Brook to become the Willimantic River.
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NECR Palmer Subdivision
Stafford Springs, CT
NECR 608 (Local; Palmer, MA to Willamantic, CT)
NECR 3039 GP40-2LW Ex. TPW 4053, CN 9436 Blt. 1974
NECR 3040 GP40-2LW Ex. TPW 4055, CN 9495 Blt. 1974
ARR 3010 and two other matched GP40-2s lead a Whittier-bound freight south approaching Brookman, AK, seen here sandwiched between the icy waters of the Turnagain Arm and the not-yet-tourist-packed Seward Highway. This is our thirteenth entry in the Alaska Revisited series...fitting because it's the first one from 2013!
This first day of Spring '13 didn't go the way I expected, but it turned out actually better than I was hoping. The original schedule called for a NB out of Whittier, but bad winds shook up the schedule leaving a late SB move. In addition to chasing this train from Anchorage to Whittier, I was able to chase a NB coal empty from Portage back to Anchorage! This day was also of note because I got a giant rock chip in my windshield, and, unbeknownst to me at the time, I caught the film crew from "Railroad Alaska" filming that NB coal train.
For those who don't know, I mainly stray away from railfanning from about the time the snow melts, to the time the leaves finally bud out. I am not normally a fan of the lighting conditions, and the drab colors of dead vegetation aren't really something that interests me. I have made quite a few exceptions this year however, chasing just about any CMQ job I was able to, and I covered the derailment on Pan Am in Etna quite extensively. On this day I was chasing wreck extra 380 which a wreck train in 2020 is worthy of a exception! Here they are seen at Pittsfield, and due to mechanical issues with the 380, the engineer has it deep into the higher notches. I believe this was also the last run for the 380, as it was having quite a few issues over the course of the wreck clean up, which one day they needed a push by the rear locomotive over the hill in Carmel. With Pan Am up for sale and with the possibility of a new owner, I doubt the wreck train will be around for much longer.
Rio Grande GP40-2s No. 3122, 3120, 3105, and Southern Pacific GP40-2 No. 7672 await assignment in the D&RGW yard in Provo, Utah the evening of Aug. 19, 1996.
SOO GP40-2 #2057 - #2011, with northbound 217, at Lake City, Minnesota. April 12, 1999. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
J42 is well behind the 8 ball as it drops down into New Brighton, overnight snows totaling over six inches of heavy snow (eerily similar to Sierra Cement for those acquainted) which delayed railroad traffic across the metro for hours. With the train ahead having to spin power at Shoreham, they would not make it to their turn location at Humboldt until well after dark.
A Missouri Pacific lettered GP40 pulls a local freight into Grant Tower in Salt Lake City the afternoon of April 29, 1986. UP 665 was built Western Pacific GP40 No. 3516 by EMD in April 1967. The unit went on to work for the Kansas City Southern Railway.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3104 leads the Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 through the now bygone town of Thistle, Utah the morning of May 27, 1979.
CSX GP40-2-6240, B36-7-5911, ???? and CW40-8-7715 are on the point of W/B train R-175 passing under the Meade CPLs. On the right, Wimpey Minerals (WIMX) Alco S2-106 is busy switching loaded stone hoppers.
While the Provo, Utah afternoon switcher goes about its business on the drill track, the Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 17 arrives at University Avenue on May 28, 1977. D&RGW GP40-2 No. 3111 was substituting for an ailing F9B on this occasion.
GP40-2 CR 3398 brings a westbound piggyback train by the old freight building at Emsworth, PA in September of 1989.
CR 3398. Emsworth, PA.
September 1,1989. Keith E. Ardinger photo.
Adam Klimchock collection.
B&O GP40 No 3692, a GP30 and three GP9s lift an eastbound coal drag up Cranberry Grade west of Terra Alta, WV on May 4, 1978. Of course, there are four SD35's on the rear providing their share in the effort.
Rio Grande GP40 No. 3085 and GP40-2 No. 3101 pull a 12 car PRGVR local down the Tintic Branch near Springville, Utah the foggy morning of Dec. 27, 1994.
TELE VIEW: CSX GP40-2-6218 & SD50s 8559, 8597 are leading E/B train Z-410-18 on the Philly Sub. Here, approaching the Mohrs Lane overpass. And, check out the Poplar CPL (Color Position Light) signals. The Middle River Road overpass is in the distance.
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3099 takes the weekend off at Transfer yard in Ogden, Utah on May 11, 1996. 3099 was assigned to work the ‘Little Mountain Local’ that serves Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals on the SP west of Ogden.
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac GP40-2 No. 146 and GP40 No. 122 are lined up on the ready tracks at Bryan Park Terminal in Richmond, VA March 21, 1987.
CSX GP40's #6020- #6790, with an eastbound on the ex-B&O Keystone sub. The train is traveling along the Youghiogheny River, passing under the ex-P&WV trestle at Banning, Pennsylvania. The P&LE railroad can be seen on the other river bank. January 5,1989. Jack D Kuiphoff photo©
CSX GP40-2 No. 6454 trails a light engine move across the Potomac River and into Graham Tunnel at Kessler, WV on Aug. 21, 2019.
Utah Railway's RUT309 local works the Thatcher Chemical plant on Union Pacific's Small Arms Plant Industrial Lead in Salt Lake City on Oct. 22, 2009. UTAH 3000 was built by EMD as Baltimore & Ohio GP40 No. 4046 in Oct. 1971.
The southbound CSX Hopewell Switcher passes through downtown Richmond, VA on March 21, 1987, led by Seaboard System GP40 No. 6750. That is the James Monroe Building towering in the background.
A trio of GP40-2s lead by one of three geeps wearing its as-delivered paint stretches the 120S through South Anchorage on the way to the Port of Whittier. The nearly 8,900ft train is loaded with outbound barge traffic for Seattle by way of the Alaska Marine Lines. Upon arrival the crew and power will layover to work the barge and prepare the following days inbound train.
ARR 120S @ E 100th Avenue, Anchorage, AK
ARR GP40-2 3001 (Original Paint)
ARR GP40-2 3007
ARR GP40-2 3005
Rio Grande GP40-2 No. 3108 leads a long, heavy No. 126 train east through Spanish Fork Canyon at Castilla, Utah on Aug. 6, 1988. When the rear end of the 126 clears the crossovers, D&RGW Dispatcher 5 will flag the 5392 East onto the rear of the train for a push to Soldier Summit.
When GP40 models were new before yellow added. Downgrade into IGH(St.Paul) from above CGW right of way.
Rio Grande GP40 No. 3081 leads a Eugene, Oregon to Alton & Southern (East St. Louis, Illinois) manifest freight through the quiet town of Springville, Utah minutes before sundown on March 16, 1990. It was rare by 1990 to catch a through freight with all Rio Grande four-axle power.
A Rio Grande GP40-2, GP30, SD45, and two GP35s pull an eastbound manifest freight through Soldier Summit on Oct. 27, 1979. The train of forest products was interchange received from the Southern Pacific at Ogden.
Nothing really says "Chessie System" more than the GP40-2; After all, they had the largest fleet of the model, and they went everywhere! B&O 4111 and WM 4261 display some major differences in the evolution of the model; 5 years separates these two engines date of manufacture (1972 and 1977). Both are seen glowing in the sun at Cincinnati Ohio on December 5th 1978. Dan Dover photo, JL Sessa collection.
FEC 425, one of the two GP40-2s painted for breast cancer awareness, leads train 204 across the St. Augustine marshes on a sunny Saturday morning. St. Augustine, FL
GP40-2 CR 3320 is the leader on a westbound rolling through BENNY interlocking in late 1984. By this point, BENNY was reduced to just signals that were controlled by AR Tower. The crossovers had been removed in the years prior. The eastbound home signal is only signaled for movements off 'The Slide.' At one point, there was an overspeed warning system here. If trains were going too fast down 'The Slide' torpedos would go off, the home signal would drop, and an air horn would be activated. BENNY survived until the 90s, from what I can tell, and I believe was eliminated during the CTCing that followed the double stack project. There's no interlocking here anymore, nor any signals.
CR 3320. Bennington, PA.
November 1984. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
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. The old sugar factory was demolished in 2011 and the D&RGW right of way now hosts Utah Transit Authority's 'Red Line' light rail route to South Jordan.
GP40-2 UP 1526 leads the LTU62 past the New Vision Coop elevator in Heron Lake, Minnesota on the old Omaha Road.
CSXT GP40-2 #6394 of RF&P heritage sits idle with CSX train L810 while the crew grabs a bite to eat at a nearby restaurant.
Under heavy overcast on Independence Day 1982, five Western Pacific geeps are heading west out of Salt Lake City, UT. GP40-2-3550 is on the point along with GP40-3538, GP40-2-3545, GP40-3520 and a fifth GP unknown.
GP40-3's 303 and 305 spot some gondolas at Timken Steel southwest of Canton, Ohio, on the morning of 4/25/16. Now to just get this shot with less brush, a better sun angle, and no crew members in the shot.
Rio Grande GP40 No. 3148, and GP40-2s No. 3111 and 3101 drag the 'Midvale Tramp' local from the Jordan River drainage up to Midvale, Utah on Feb. 25, 1995. Today this right of way is occupied by Utah Transit Authority's light rail 'Red Line' to South Jordan.
The Prince Brothers General Store, in Prince, West Virginia, closed its doors in 1984, ending 112 years of continuous operation. Here a CSX power move rolls past the store on October 11, 1986, the same year that it was placed on the national registry of historic places. Today the building has been restored, and in part of the New River Gorge National River, National Park Service.