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KCS 4006 rounding the bend from the KCS Godfrey Sub to the KCS Roodhouse Sub in Roodhouse, IL. MVNKC will make a quick pick up here in town before they couple back onto the rest of their train and continue their trip towards the KCS Knoche Yard in Kansas City.
At the old station of American, you get plenty of warning when an eastbound train is approaching. For westbound trains, it's a far different story. Most of the time, your only warning of a westbound's approach is the horns blazing for the Casa Loma crossing. However, if the conditions are right, you can hear the horns all the way up to Blue Canyon. On this beautiful spring afternoon, the sound of the horns from the UP 8750, could be heard from several miles up the hill. As if it was the sound of a bugler heralding the approach of a great Army.
This flatcar, owned by Progress Rail Services, is specially designed to carry railcar wheels. It was built in July 1981, likely as a standard bulkhead flat, but has since been converted to MOW service. It's seen here on a BNSF train heading for UP's Englewood Yard in Houston.
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Houston, TX
February 9th, 2025
SCAX 922, a four-year-old EMD F125, stands out among the fall colors with its bright teal paint as it stops to flag a crossing in Claremont.
I ran up to the UP in Topeka today and shot this neat consist pulling out of the yard, and onto the main. EMDX Tier 4 SD70ACe-T4s 7239 and 7219, along with the KCS 5022 led a KCS Bean Train (GLTPKS 19) out of Topeka for KC, and eventually Monterrey, MX.
After a timely heads-up, I ran up to the UP in Topeka and found this neat consist pulling out of the yard, and onto the main. Here, they're a few miles east of Topeka, approaching the town of Grantville, KS. EMDX Tier 4 SD70ACe-T4s 7239 and 7219, along with the KCS 5022 led a KCS Bean Train (GLTPKS 19) out of Topeka for KC, and eventually Monterrey, MX.
4483,5658 overtake 4407,4430 on a loaded ore at Finucane Island at Port Hedland as they head for unloading on 19-6-15.
4407 and 4483 were both built by Progress Rail, 4407 was named Ironman while brand new 4483 has been named Alex Sulic
CN 2543 leads X335 north past Hayes with a plethora of power including CN SD60 5467, NS units 2520 and 8329, and PRLX (ex-CSXT) SD70ACes 4847, 4843, 4844, and 4840. The SD70ACes are freshly patched coming from Mayfield, KY.
EMD powered SD70ACE locos 4427,4439 are the mid power locos on an empty ore train behind 4321,4410 as they head between Garden and Shaw on 21-6-15
GWB103,GWA009,GWA003 with 1901 empty ore train to Wirrida sit in the Mcleay crossing loop on 27-9-20
On a cold and wet May night, NS SD40-3 6431 switches around BNSF 10th Avenue Yard and NS Avondale Yard with a load of autoracks in tow. While NS 6431 is now wearing Norfolk Southern black and white, NS 6431 is actually on home rails with its Burlington Northern sibling. NS 6431 was built as BN 7065 in July 1978 and lasted with the BN up until the BNSF merger in 1996. Shortly after, BN 7065 was sold to HLCX until being aquired by Norfolk Southern as NS 3517. NS 3517 was rebuilt as NS 6431 in early 2024 at the Juniata shops.
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North Kansas City, Missouri, USA
May 18, 2025
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On the dismantle line at Progress Rail, on President's Island in Memphis, sits long time resident UPY 940 (ex-MP 3503 GP60). Two EMD TEBC6 new comers, BNSF 50 (ex-GN 588 SD9) and BN 56 (ex-CBQ 365 SD9), await their turn to be scrapped.
Not yet to enter regular service, GWB102 undergoes noise test trials at Warnertown on 13-5-19. Testing equipment was located alongside the track and the loco was driven back and forth over a couple of KM distances testing outside noise.
Queensland Railway's westbound locomotive 2901 with ballast train, rounding Hillview Curve, just east of Yuleba.
Having only just been delivered, SD70ACE 4479 leads unit 4478 at the head of a loaded ore train through the Chichester Ranges with locos 4330,4396 as mid train banker locos on 21-6-15.
Newly delivered loco 4479 was named Jim Hunt
The Feather River Canyon is humbling and overwhelming. Everything is brought down to size in this place. Everyone who enters this wonderland is a mere guest, even a massive train. Here, at Rich Bar, a westbound autorack train, only a small speck in a massive environment, exits a tunnel.
Even the locomotives have a coat of it! UP 9075 leads a westbound train loaded with Gypsum through Virgilia, CA. The gypsum came from the Empire Mine in Gerlach, NV, and is bound for the San Joaquin Valley.
When you mention BNSF's southern transcon route to someone, they think of long stack trains, fast running speeds, and desert landscapes. Well, two out of three in this shot ain't bad!
Desert landscapes, check! Stack train, check! Hot running....try a running crawl. The climb to the top of Ash Hill from Amboy can bring under powered westbound trains to their knees. Such is the case with our friend here, the BNSF 8769 west. The long stack train is maintaining a brisk 10 MPH speed as it approaches Siberia.
The day's CN RJY30 transfer job is led by a patched Santa Fe warbonnet (PRLX 250) as it comes off the BNSF Thayer South Sub onto the single track of the CN Memphis Sub at CN Junction in downtown Memphis.
Summertime in the Sierra Nevada has arrived. Cooling mountain breezes, long summer nights, and the return of afternoon thunderstorms. On this early evening, atop the American River Canyon, a towering cumulonimbus cloud dominates the eastern horizon. Echo Summit and the Desolation Wilderness are the subject of nature's fury at this moment. As all of this magnificence is taking place, UP 8545 west passes, hauling the MOGRV (Ogden, UT to Roseville, CA Manifest) down off of the Sierras.
SD70ACU #7021 (rebuilt from SD9043MAC #9126) shows off its desert paint based on Canadian Army equipment that sees service in warmer climates
April 27, 2021: NS 995 (Chattanooga, TN-Barnesville, GA) passes the C-Line Junction at CP Green in Silver Creek, GA with a total of 16 SD70M-2 EMD engines being towed to their new owner PRLX (Progress Rail). The train is being lead by NS 1832 (SD70ACC EMD), and note the front logo is missing. The 1832 was involved in a derailment a while back, and the logo has yet to be added after it was repaired.
Watch video of the train here:
SD70acu #7021, wearing desert camouflage, shoves a unit canola meal train out of the valley at Gwynne Alberta. With D Day painted 6644 leading, it was a good day to shoot Military painted units on CP!
Add one more train to the Canyon Subdivision. With the re-opening of the Empire Mining Gypsum Plant in Gerlach, NV, UP now runs a unit gypsum train to the San Joaquin Valley. The unit Gypsum train is rolling west down the canyon near Virgilia, CA.
One of two demonstrator SD70ACE-T4 units on the CN works the mid train remote position on X199 at Gainford Alberta. The flashy yellow paint makes the units stand out in a fleet of black and red, although I'm not sure how effective the flashy paint will be on the order books.
Clouds have parted, and the brilliance of the Wasatch Range appears over Salt Lake City. Rolling through North Yard is a rather interesting coal train, fully consisting of older coal hoppers, many from fallen flags.
4473,4397 and mid train bankers 4480,4353 work a loaded ore train through Garden heading towards Port Hedland on 21-6-15
October 30, 2018: A Union Pacific SD70M EMD engine leads a leased Progress Rail (PRLX) EX CSX AC6000CW GE engine sporting the BC2 (YN2b) paint scheme, as they pull Norfolk Southern freight train NS 175 (Elkhart, IN-Macon, GA) up the grade at Braswell, GA on a lovely Fall afternoon in Northwest Georgia,
Freightliner Class 66, 66587 "As One We Can" emerges from the early morning darkness at Hartford working 4M42 2152 Felixstowe North Freighliner Terminal to Ditton O'Connor Sidings.
1 of currently 43 active SD75IACC rebuilds, CN 8322, leads M357 as it slowly works it's way out of Stevens Point, where they would soon hit the ground running up to 55 mph
Union Pacific signal construction crews have had a busy summer on the Roseville Subdivision. In addition to a new CTC crossover at Gold Run, UP crews have been adding new signal bridges between Shed Ten and East Norden. The new bridges and vader signals will replace the Southern Pacific 1920's era steel signal bridges. At MP 189.2, west of Soda Springs, crews have erected a new bridge with intermediate signals. For the Espee era signal bridge, guarding passage of UP 8846 east, time is short.
As a contrast to the previous image, this shot from September 2023 shows an Aurizon empty iron ore train climbing through the curves at Wirrappa, South Australia.
The capacity of this train is probably less than half of that in the previous image, despite 36 years having elapsed. The difference is that the Pilbara iron ore trains run on their own dedicated networks, whereas the train pictured above is on shared 'open access' tracks and thereby constrained by the length of crossing loops and axle load limitations.
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The sun's just dipped as 4343,4385 on a loaded cross an empty ore train at Mooka with 4404 trailing 4419 on the evening of 19-6-15
EMD F125 #927 is in charge of Los Angeles-bound train 753 as it makes its stop in Fullerton on a crisp Sunday morning.
Double SD70ACE locos 4383,4396 haul a loaded iron ore consist towards the unloaders at Finucane Island at Port Hedland on 18-6-15.
The mid units and consist behind them have been detached and will unload as a separate train
GBRF`s latest class 69 released from Longport no. 69014 (ex 56104) is seen crossing the west junction at Hambleton with 6N71 the 11.45 Doncaster up decoy to Tyne S.S. engineers 27/01/2025.
CP 6644 shows off her "Invasion" stripes while leading a unit canola meal train near Bittern Lake Alberta
Heading through the scenic Pilbara between Garden and Shaw is 4466,4428 leading 4342,4346 mid train on an empty ore train on 21-6-15.
4466 is named Brian Derschow
An almost brand new GWB101 with ALF24 have detached of thier train 6DA2 at Wirrida on 15-2-20 and run around the ballon loop to test the infrastructure before the resumption of ore train services
Progress Rail SD70ACE locos 4466,4458 and mid train locos 4329,4314 work a loaded ore around a curve at the 241.5km at Hesta on 20-6-15.
4466 was built by Progress Rail at Muncie in 2014 and named Brian Derschow
Waiting on the crossing loop at Ferguson for a cross is 4DA2 intermodal service from Darwin with GWB101,ALF20 on 3-9-20.
At the front of the consist is loaded oz minerals wagons loaded with copper concentrate attached at Wirrida enroute.
After a long drive back from IL, I get a good nights rest and decide to see what the railroads throw at me in the Twin Cities. Well, here's one of those. UP 3061 leads a short SB manifest as it enters Dundas, MN on a warm August evening
An obviously ex-Wisconsin & Southern GP38 sits outside of Kansas City's Mid-America Car shop, patched as the PRLX 3867.
This unit was built in 1970 as the IC 9506, before eventually becoming theMKT 331, then the WSOR 3808.
UP has been holding onto one of the Tier 4 SD70ACe leasers in the port of Houston for the better part of early 2021. Here, that very unit winds through the industrial east side of Houston with a cut of tank cars and plastics on a local that works some of the chemical plants.
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EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7209
La Porte, TX
February 1st, 2021
PRLX 2348, obviously a former CSX road slug sits at Kansas City's Mid-America Car shop. This began life as an SCL GP40 in 1970, and was rebuilt into a slug as early as 2004. It was still active on the CSX as of 2019, so this purge is fairly recent.
The sound is enough to drive one nuts! If the roar of the engines and 5,000 plus tons of freight doesn't get you, the high pitched squeal of the engines will. Being in the middle of a steep canyon, the sound bounces back and forth, amplifying the effect. Add the passage of another train at the same time, the sound becomes deafning. To a railfan, its a sweet industrial symphony! Here, at Blue Canyon, the westbound ZG2LT passes the eastbound MFRNP.