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BNSF ES44C4 7986 leads a southbound BNSF Office Car Special (O-DENLAJ) through Palmer Lake as some unsettling skies can be seen from the north.
A CSX freight train passes through a patch of native prairie near Dolton-Riverdale Park on a sunny summer day in Dolton, Illinois.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/8.0, 35mm, 1/400s
BNSF 6946 has a northbound Q-train under control as it heads through the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO while a snow-covered Pikes Peak looms in the background through pristine air.
Gotta enjoy the snow on Pikes Peak and the clean air while we can because before too long the snow will melt and forest fire smoke will rape the sky. Again.
Regardless...it was nice to get out again. Could not have asked for a nicer day (and don't worry...the ACes are coming).
BNSF 7538 is on the tail end of a northbound coal empty as it passes into the Greenland Open Space near Spruce, CO.
It's somewhat odd to catch DC power on a coal train in this day and age, and even odder that I caught a DC unit from this angle before I've been able to catch an ACe here...and I've been trying on the ACe for a few years now!
Snow-covered CP 8605 brings up the rear of CP 112 as it approaches its terminus of Lachine IMS yard.
Originally, the Truckee River was named Salmon Trout River by two men traveling the river. Not long later, the river would be renamed after a guide from the Paiute known as Truckee, which is how the name Truckee River was formed and later the town of Truckee.
The river runs between Pyramid Lake in Nevada and Lake Tahoe. Traveling between the two lakes, the river travels through the Truckee River Canyon which over the years has been used as a route to travel over the Sierras. Many early emigrants coming to California would hike this route until the Transcontinental Railroad was built in the 1860s. Years after the railroad was built, the Lincoln Highway would join it in the 1920s. Since then, the original Lincoln Highway has seen changes, it would be replaced by I-80 and the remains became the new highway alignment, lesser travelled roads, or old scars in the land. The railroad also saw change, but the majority of the route has stayed nearly the same to how it was originally built almost 160 years ago. Today, the Union Pacific still uses the old Transcontinental Railroad, and on an August morning the Chicago bound Z train rides along the Truckee River. In a few moments the train will enter the Truckee River Canyon as it descends the mountain into the city of Reno.
Le quotidien "Adirondack", opéré par l'entreprise américaine Amtrak, vient de traverser le Fleuve Saint-Laurent sur l'iconique Pont Victoria et laisse derrière lui le centre-ville de Montréal et sa montagne. La P42DC 100 arbore une livrée spéciale représentant les 50 ans d'Amtrak et de ses services ferroviaires aux États-Unis, et sera en tête du train jusqu'a New York.
Daily's "Adirondack", operated by Amtrak, has just crossed the Saint-Lawrence River on the iconic Victoria Bridge, and let behind it Montreal's downtown and its mountain. P42DC 100 wears a special livery which represent Amtrak's 50th anniversary and its railway services in the USA, and will lead the train all the way to New York City.
GE’s B40-8 demonstrator is on its next to last day on the Susquehanna. A friend and I stumbled into it not knowing that it was even on the property. I have since seen photos of it on mainline NYS&W trains, but on this day, the demo drew a somewhat unexpected assignment. Seen here in the yard in Binghamton, New York, the 4000-horsepower B-B will be the sole power on the Northern Division local, and is getting up its train's air.
VIA 24 has a Renaissance consist as it heads towards Central Station in Montreal. Originating in Ottawa, this train will continue towards Quebec City after a stop at Central Station.
It's a bright sunny morning in The Dalles. Against the backdrop of the historic town, and the brilliance of Mount Hood, a BNSF manifest makes it's way east towards Wishram and Pasco.
OSE-HELLENIC RAILWAY ORGANISATION, GENERAL ELECTRIC-UM10B, Α 223 + Α 224, 29-12-1996, Αmfikleia station - Hellas, local train 1511.
BNSF 6178 steps out a northbound cement train as they accelerate through the open space north of Palmer Lake in Spruce, CO.
Short train, but it's running 3x2, testifying to the weight of the train. I found it interesting that the BNSFbonnet second out had PTC equipment on its roof.
Anyway, I always enjoy it out here. The cell coverage is barely there and it's nice to feel like you're able to "get away" from all the B.S. metastasizing across the country...at least for a little bit.
The phrase "Southern Pacific roll on" is one many are familiar with. This line came from Steve Spurgin's song "Ballad of the Southern Pacific," which was made for Southern Pacific's Corporate Communications in the 1990s. The song also mentions "As long as there's a USA, SP will haul a freight," and both statements still hold true today as several SP painted motors still continue to haul freight on railroads such as UP, Trona, Kyle, and even in odd places like the US Sugar in Florida. Even when all of these motors are gone, there will still be relics of the SP in museums, on display in parks, and even former scarlet red and gray motors wearing other paint.
In Auburn, along SP's former Donner Pass, an old SP caboose sits next to main track one, the original track for Donner. A July afternoon sees an SP painted AC44 hauling westbound autos by the caboose. Although only a handful of locomotives on UP still wear SP or Cotton Belt, the ones that do still stand strong. However, it won't be long before these units get a new paint of armour yellow. But for now SP continues to roll on, even if not much of it remains.
The Everett to Roosevelt garbage loads roll eastward near Towal, Washington. The train has been following the Columbia River for roughly 160 miles since it passed Longview Junction.
In a little over 20 miles, it will reach its destination of Roosevelt. The containers of refuse will be unloaded there, and trucked the final few miles to the massive landfill.
During the mid-90s, the garbage train was a relatively modest job that did not run every day. Even after the BNSF merger, the C30-7 on the point was a relatively rare bird in the Northwest.
Today, BNSF's EVEROO is a massive daily train.
After some mid spring snowstorms, BNSF 5869 leads a heavy coal load working hard up the grade for Palmer Lake.
BNSF 5804 leads a southbound coal train through the U.S. Air Force Academy, CO.
A little light pole shadowectomy happened in this image.
BNSF 714 and 775 make a classic 90s consist as it leads a repositioning intermodal train with some thunderclouds rolling in.
About fifteen minutes after departing Klamath Falls, the southbound Swift RoadRailer rolls through the Klamath Basin near Merrill, Oregon. To the southwest, Mt. Shasta dominates the horizon.
On a crisp winter morning in Hercules, California, I was along the shores of the San Pablo Bay as the morning sun shined down on the bayside city. The sounds of feet jogging down the coastal trail and the squawking of sea birds was soon drowned out by the signature rumble of a GE motor making its way down the tracks that skate along the water's edge, in the form of Amtrak 6 rolling east towards its next station stop at Martinez. On point of this morning's train was none other than engine 203, wearing a special design reminding riders and passersby to stay safe around the railroad tracks. This shot was seconds away from being blocked by a westbound Capitol Corridor train that was roughly a quarter mile behind me and moving in quick at track speed, but luck was on my side as I was able to see my main target negotiating the S curve, before getting blocked by the apposing train.
Canadian Pacific's train 199, departs Watertown as a severe warned storm meets them head on.
CP 199
Watertown, WI.
Summer 2016
After a continent wide voyage from the Pacific coast port of Prince Rupert, CN 186's long journey is nearly over as it passes through Dorval with the EJE heritage unit leading. Mid-train is CN 3814 and distributed braking car CN 0083 is on the tail end of this 177-car train (10,738 feet long).
Happy brown season, everyone! April 11th's edition of Joffre-Taschereau manifest 401 rolls through Sainte-Madeleine behind a former rent-a-wreck and a current rent-a-wreck. Consist : CN 3925, GECX 2037.
Winter has a good grip on Wisconsin and The Milwaukee Road, as Lonnie captured this image of a pair of GE U30C's getting service at the Madison terminal before heading back to Bensenville.
MILW 5651
Madison, WI.
January 1977
Lonnie Maves Photo
D.A.Longley Collection
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VIA 62 with VIA 903 and four HEP cars is making its stop at Dorval Station as an Austrian Airlines 767 prepares to land at the nearby airport.
BNSF 6060 leads an empty coal train through the serenity of the Greenland Open Space in Greenland, CO while a shadowy Pikes Peak looms more than 25 miles away...
Canadian National GE 2911 was recorded at Savona, British Columbia at the rear of a westbound train of Sultran branded gondolas loaded with a consignment of sulphur heading for Vancouver. These trains typically load to over 100 wagons and circa 12,000 tonnes for the journey to the designated Pacific Coast terminal.
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Canadian Tire is a big client of CP's and here some of their container passes CP 8046 as CP 112 works Lachine IMS Yard as the snow falls. Can't get much more Canadian than this if you ask me!
After leaving the small Mérida yard, a Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec (FIT) crew is slowly hustling 12 empty cement cars from Valladolid along Ruta 261, one of Mérida's main arteries. Once they reach the Ciudad Industrial on the outskirts of town, they will pick up more cars and resume their slow trip to Campeche. The FIT operates the former NdeM mainline (línea FA) between Coatzacoalcos, Ver. and Mérida, Yuc., which spans a distance of almost 900 kilometers. Consist : BOTX 3901, BOTX 1824, BOTX 2002, BPMX 3916.
The first southbound Adirondack in over three years is passing the Peel Basin five minutes after its departure from Central Station in Montreal. 50th anniversary unit Amtk 108 is leading.
If there was one thing I was not expecting today, it was a text regarding a train I had no clue about. Even better, it was only a couple hours away from passing me.
This morning, I was sitting around at home when I got a text from a friend asking "You going for the CSX leader on PASFRS?" I was a bit confused at first, nobody had mentioned or posted anything that I knew of, and little did I know at the time it was already heading down the Feather River Canyon. After checking a camera on BNSF's Gateway Subdivision, sure enough just after 04:00 it passed through Clear Creek, CA. On top of that, the trailing motor was an H1, so since I had nothing better to do I decided I was going to shoot it somewhere. First, I had to grab something from an auto shop, which took way longer than expected. By the time I left, I knew that my original plan, which was to start at James, was probably gonna be pushed back to Oroville. This was confirmed after I found out the train had left Keddie just after 08:00, it was after 12 by this point.
Knowing that the train had to be close to Oroville, I pulled up to the yard for my first spot and could see a train coming down the mountainside at around Kramm. Thinking that was the CSX, I rushed to find the angle I was wanted. My shot was not the angle I was looking for, but thankfully this would be INPOA, and the train I was looking for was following right behind them. After catching the CSX minutes later, I made my way to Marysville.
When the train got to Marysville, it would sit at the north end of the siding until being lined off the main. The crew was very cool, and while the train was stopped myself and another friend of mine, who I met up with at this spot, were talking to the engineer. Turns out, the guy was another railfan, and the three of us started talking for awhile as the dispatcher held the southbound for two northbound trains. Eventually, both passed and the crew was ready to head out, then the dispatcher told them they had one more, which was still decently far out. After well over an hour of sitting, finally all three had passed so the CSX could leave. I already knew where I wanted my third and final shot to be by this point. While I had shot the south end of the siding at Pleasant Grove many times, I had never shot nor seen any recent photos of the north end. I knew how to get there, but turns out it was going to be more difficult than I thought.
The easy way to get there was to turn off just before the crossing for Catlett Road, which takes you down a dirt track for a awhile before you end up at a crossing near the north signals. However, it has rained a lot recently, and I mean A LOT, which made the road muddy and full of puddles. The entire way down, my car was yearning for the ditches, and the conditions made it hard to control the car, but eventually after a slow journey I made it. My friend would end up following right behind me, and he got out to check if he could see anything. Meanwhile, I was changing lenses, but it didn't take long before I could hear my friend yelling that the train was very close. I rushed to finish up, and sure enough the train was getting close to Catlett Road, which from that crossing to the signals took the train less than twenty seconds. I raced down to get closer to the searchlights, set up, and it didn't take long before the train had reached us. Afterwards, we started heading back to our cars, but realized the train was stopping again, which turned out to be another northbound. This gave us the opportunity for a fourth shot, so we hopped back in our cars and I found a much easier but longer way to get back to the paved roads. After shooting it one last time, we called it a day and headed our separate ways, which for me meant dinner.
CN 401 from Joffre Yard is on the South Track of the Montreal Sub as it passes CN 527, stopped at right on the Butler Spur with BCOL 4653 leading. CN 527 had just finished backing its Pointe St-Charles lift onto the rest of its train.
The UP MPRPB eases it's way diagonally across the horizon at 142.3 with an MP15AC, lettered for NREX, third out in the consist.
C36-7 and U30C locomotives await their turn in Union Pacific’s Salt Lake City Diesel Shop on New Year’s Eve, 1986.
Donner Pass is full of old signal bridges, and shot here is one of them. Places such as Reno, Verdi, Yuba Gap, and Andover, the place in this photo, still have old SP era signal bridges standing. Over the years, several have been knocked over, the most recent of which being the one in downtown Truckee earlier this year. Although eventually all of these inactive bridges will be knocked, for now UP is keeping them up while they focus on more important tasks for maintenance to handle.
As the morning sun shines into the Coldstream Canyon, the eastbound ZLTG2 roars through the canyon as it makes its way into Truckee. Right after getting this shot, I would continue following it to Reno as there were no westbound trains in the area to follow. Even after getting lunch later in the day, there was still nothing, making this the only train I would shoot that day.
VIA 35 has four HEP cars (the last one out of sight as the train crosses over from the north to the south track) and VIA 914 on a gorgeous fall afternoon. The cars are VIA 4002-4113-4100-4102.
Bound for Loyall yard, empty train U090 winds through a reverse curve at Fishertown, just outside of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, on the frosty morning of January 30, 2021. The sign on the tree at left marks the driveway as "Dale Earnhardt Drive."
CN 327 is passing a switch point indicator which indicates over the radio whether the switch is lined for the main or the diverging route. The track at right is the south switch to CSXT's intermodal terminal in Valleyfield, which CSXT stopped using a few years ago. Law Enforcement unit CSXT 3194 is the leader.
A fine summer morning on Union Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision at Bolam, California finds a northbound BNSF reroute heading for Klamath Falls. The train was detouring away from a major trackwork project on BNSF's Gateway Subdivision to the east. The somewhat tired GE on the point is a reminder that had Southern Pacific and Santa Fe completed their merger, the 1990s warbonnet renaissance on ATSF would never have happened.
The sun is setting in Reno and is only a minute or two from ducking behind the mountain. It's just then that an eastbound manifest comes screaming out of the Reno Trench, racing the sunlight to Sparks.
Yesterday, I had just gotten off of work and opened my phone to see if anyone was doing anything, the first thing I saw answered that. I had gotten a text that UP 6318 was on the point of a power set that was almost certainly for the North Platte manifest, MRVNP. If this was in fact the North Platte, I was wanting to go to Andover just get it passing under the decommissioned SP signal bridge. Lighting would be good, and shooting an SP under an SP signal bridge with searchlights on it is something I've wanted to do for a long time. So for the next hour, my friend and I, along with some others, tried to figure out if this was in fact going on the MRVNP or another train. After listening to radio chatter for awhile, I received a text from another friend asking about the train as he had seen the power sitting on an eastbound in the yard. At that point we knew it was undoubtedly the North Platte. Once we got the word they were lined out of town, I went up the hill.
One thing about Donner is that a lot has changed since the SP days. Seeing SP painted motors on the mountain, or on UP mainlines in general, is nothing short of a rarity in this age, with only five AC44s left in SP paint. The rest of the SP painted locomotives on UP's roster don't get to see road service often, being used for local and yard services. Besides the endangered iconic scarlet red and grey paint, the layout of Donner Pass itself has changed. In the years following the demise of SP, both the Roseville and Truckee yards were rebuilt, and much of the old SP infrastructure had been torn out or decommissioned. However, two specific things stand out from the rest. Of course everyone knows about Roseville, but the entire mainline through downtown Reno was relocated, specifically below the original right of way.
Beginning in October 2002, the Reno Trench was a massive project that eliminated headaches for the city of Reno. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the addition of a trench improved safety, public health, and environmental issues in the downtown area. Specifically, the administration lists improving pedestrian impacts, noise, air quality, and vehicle delays, especially for first responders. The trench opened in 2005, being fully complete in the spring of 2006. At a cost of 279.9 million dollars, building the 1.75 mile trench in total eliminated ten crossings in the center of downtown. Twenty years later, it still sees several trains daily, including Amtrak who stops at the station platform in the trench.
On a November evening, the sun is within three minutes or less of dropping behind the mountain, shadowing in downtown Reno. It's just before the sun dropped that a thirty year old AC44 still wearing SP paint comes roaring out of the trench with a massive train in tow bound for Nebraska. After clearing the trench, the train would pull into Sparks within minutes, where the train would set out and pick up cars. Afterwards, it would speed across the Nevada desert just like how the SP did all those years ago.