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Canadian Pacific's locomotive commemorating D-Day, leads train 384 under the new Bobolink bridge just outside of Reeseville. I may have overshot this bridge when it was still a wooden timber bridge, but with no regrets. I figured I'd get at least one train coming under the new concrete span and this is it.
CP Train 384
CP 6644, BNSF 6508,
DPU CSX 3334
Reeseville, WI.
September 3, 2021
Some timely for me delays kept CP 650 from departing overnight and instead gave it a sunny morning departure. Here we see it at CP 501 on the NS Chicago Line with Navy Veterans SD70ACu #7022 leading.
A Canadian duo of CP 7023 and 8824 uncouple from their train (NS 6D4) in Flat Top Yard on the Pocahontas District to pick up another unit for the remainder of the trip to Roanoke. The sun is just coming up over the mountain making the fog glow above the specially painted SD70ACU commemorating the Canadian and US fighter jets. I shared a shot a couple weeks ago similar to this one, but I liked this one a whole lot better.
CP 7019 slowly winds it's way westward through the endless 'S' curves along the eastern edge of the Fraser Canyon near Chapmans, British Columbia at MP 12.5 of CN's Yale Subdivision. Behind the leader are 130 loaded grain hoppers of CP train #301-422, with four locomotives distributed throughout. The lead SD70ACu is adorned in an a revival of the 1949 tuscan and grey colours of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Seventy six years after that paint scheme first appeared, the same colours look just as fine, especially surrounded by the autumn colours of the deciduous trees clinging to the rocks around it.
Was waiting for East Hump to stop effing a golden light westbound when one was lined out of the CP yard. What turned out to be a pair of the throwback scheme 70 rebuilds pull through Division Street while my original westbound comes around the corner at Hoffman. They had a nice photo finish right in-between Seventh Street and Division Street.
Manifest Train NS 12V passes under the classic signals at CP MANS in Mansfield, Ohio with a rebuilt EMD SD70ACu No.7294 on the point.
Canadian Pacific's westbound hot double stack train got put on ice for a bit as they crossed the 137 hotbox detector and got hit for a hot wheel 150 axles back. Turns out someone tampered with the retainer valve and set it to high pressure. I was at Walton road for a photo and got one, but then the detector forced an inspection, so naturally I went to Bobolonk rd bridge. After this photo, we caught him again at Maiden Lane and Tamarack. as Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder was now in the picture. Four sets in about five miles (fifteen miles by road), that's not too shabby I guess.
CP Train 199
CP 7011, DPU CP 8752
Reeseville, WI.
November 1, 2021
After combining loaded coal 578 and loaded ethanol 6W4 at Sandusky, the 6W4 crew negotiates the rolling hills of the NS Sandusky District south of Flat Rock, Ohio, on the evening of April 16, 2022. Surprisingly, the train seemed to stay above 20mph for the part of the run I chased despite having nearly 200 loads. They had a 2x3x0 power setup with an NS SD70ACe and SD70ACU on the front and a mid-train set consisting of an NS ES44AC, a CN SD75I, and a CN C44-9W.
BNSF H GALMEM1 13A rolls down TRRA's HS56 Main with a trio of Canadian motors and one of their own. Fittingly, the snow has stuck around for over a week and a half in Saint Louis, making these Northerners feel more at home as they roll South toward Memphis.
A still relativity clean SD70ACU works as the tailend remote on Vancouver to Toronto intermodal train 100.
CP H23 heads light power to Lambton with some defunct PRLX units hitching a ride down to wherever on a lovely spring morning. It's a shame these didn't run much while they were on the property. It seems Progress Rail is shipping them to AMP in Dansville to get them into running condition again while the SD70ACu's get some more work done, also at AMP.... lol.
CP 7023 leading it’s 475 train past the CP 8797 w/ it’s 474 train at Cotter siding on the Ottumwa Sub.
Canadian Pacific intermodal 143 ended up with quite the unusual pair of lead units in the form of a pair of Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2F's as it made it's morning run into Buffalo over the CN Stamford Sub and on to CSX. The train is crossing the Black Rock Canal and I-190 on the Harbour Draw swing span of International Bridge, and will slowly make their way through the US Customs scanners as they head on to CSX.
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CN Stamford Sub
Buffalo, NY
CP 143 (Montreal, QC to Buffalo, NY)
CMQ 9020 SD40-2F Ex. CP 9020 Blt. 1988
CMQ 9022 SD40-2F Ex. CP 9022 Blt. 1988
CP 8013 AC44CWM Ex. CP 9518 AC44CW Blt. 1995
CP 7023 SD70ACU Ex. CP 9128 SD9043MAC Blt. 1998
Down on the south end of Canadian Pacific's Kansas City Sub, I ran out after work today, and got the CP 40B coming into town at MP 485 of the Kansas City Sub. This is at the Lancaster Rd. crossing between Liberty and Mosby, MO, and after the SD70ACu leader debacle from a few months ago, I knew that I HAD to get out for this one. It's still a bit baffling that it wasn't running ABA, but I'm not going to complain too loudly about that.
Canadian Pacific D-Day military tribute locomotive CP 6644 makes it's fourth trip down the D&H leading train 228 along Lake Champlain at Putnam Station, NY.
CP 7000, the first SD70ACu of the rebuild program rolls CP 135 down the Windsor Sub. On the outskirts of Windsor the train rolls past the elevator at Elmstead. A transload facility was active on the other side of the elevator up until 2015 but a fatality involving an employee, a tractor and rail cars would ultimately end rail service to the facility. CP would tear out the switch not long after, landlocking a tank car on the spur track until it was removed off site in 2020.
CP 135
CP 7000 / CSX 5225
CP Windsor Sub
While we see a lot of Canadian Pacific ACU's on the Paynesville Sub, last week we got a change with a foreign power SD70ACU leading an empty oil train with NS 7300.
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One of Norfolk Southern's newest rummage-sale finds trails in on train 34A, crossing the Rockville Bridge over the Susquehanna River.
The bright red Indiana-painted SD90MAC, now NS 7336, was part of a group of 10 big MACs traded to Norfolk Southern from CIT Leasing for 15 EMD switchers. Patched and pressed into service, they will only look like this for a short time; the SD70ACU rebuild program is roaring along with 50 examples so far.
Passing the last siding on the Paynesville Sub in the background, 243 will have no more potential stops, making it all clear to Glenwood; seen here heading into Belgrade.
A chase that started just west of Roanoke, VA earlier in the day concluded in TN with a shot I had to get on the A Line. Just beating the train to the spot by 2 minutes, I was able to get setup in time to lens not so common SD70ACU leader 7300 on the point of 22A through downtown Johnson CIty, TN in beautiful evening light.
When the RCP visited St. John, NB they had a pretty wild power consist. The '70 was rather unfortunate but it was there and at least it was painted to match. I managed to get the eastbound trip with that unit leading the F's crossing Onawa Trestle. The weather for both trips was great. The westbound trip was a cocker, with great light through its entirety. I recall we ran out of light around East Outlet on the Moosehead after starting the day at Lambert Lake. The 95 overhead shot is decent, but the "obstacles" involved with shooting here are usually pretty humorous. So here is an F unit Friday submission with the 1401 leading he westbound trek about to duck under the interstate and what is likely one of the largest crowds to have gathered here, ever.
CP SD70ACU 7037 and an SD60 wheel west through Milwaukee at Greves & 25th with a priority manifest on a pleasant summer afternoon.
A pair of SD40E helpers are on the head end of loaded trash train 63V as it descends the West Slope grade of the Alleghenies in Lilly, Pennsylvania and rolls under the PRR signal bridge at milepost 546. This was the last winter that these signals stood guard over the Pittsburgh Line before being removed.
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NS Pittsburgh Line
Lilly, PA
NS 63V (Trash Loads; Oak Island, NJ to Mingo Junction, OH)
NS 6333 SD40E Ex. NS 5407 SD50, CR 6713 Blt. 1983
NS 6311 SD40E Ex. NS 6516 Blt. 1984
NS 9565 C44-9W Ex. NS 9565 C40-9W Blt. 2000
NS 7270 SD70ACU Ex. NS 7270 SD9043MAC, UP 3482, UP 8042 Blt. 1996
CP 2-246 eases through Dresbach, Minnesota before turning onto the Tomah Sub at La Crescent and crossing the Mississippi River into Wisconsin.
A Canadian Pacific SD70ACU serves as a rear DPU on a westbound BNSF grain train as it heads into the mountains.
CP 7056 is solo on point of train 104 from Vancouver as it rolls by the Palgrave siding at mile 30 of the MacTier Sub. Green grass and buds on the trees as well as a forecast full of rain indicate that the spring bloom is just around the corner.
An ACU leads train 649 west over one of the many steep inclines/dips on the Paynesville Sub. I was hoping for a nice evening chase on this guy, but CP had other plans of course, and this train would go into the hole in Loretto for a 242 over an hour and a half out yet (seriously), ruining any chances of getting this in light again, fooey.
CP 7056 leads CP 247 upgrade through Waterdown after a lengthy delay due to stalling trying to leave Hamilton.
The train had a DPU about 20 cars back but it wasn't enough to get them across the road with a shove from CP 254 first.
CP 7039 leads a westbound BNSF manifest (H-LINDEN) passing through Roggen at track speed on a hot summer day.
The T-27/T-28 Windsor to NS Oakwood transfer has completed their work in the US and is now underway again after waiting for the RTC to give them a signal through the tunnel. The ECo's lead into the US and we were lucky enough that the NS let this job make a quick turn around so that the ACU made it back east before the sun started to shift.
A bit of a throwback to winter 2022. CP 137 struggles up the grade near Campbellville at the railfan favourite Canyon Road searchlights. Unfortunately CPKC nerfed the signals here last year, however the classic wooden bridge is still standing. 137 would end up stalling right in front of us in the town of Campbellville a couple crossings away not too long after this photo was taken.
Train: CP 137 with CP 7018 (SD70ACu) and CP 8765 (ES44AC).
CP Galt Subdivision
Campbellville, ON
Photos from the Royal Canadian Pacific business train's rather spectacular Fall 2022 run through the upper Midwest had me thinking back on one of the only other times I had a chance to see the CP's passenger train that was also a fall run down the river back in October 2019. So I went looking through my archives today to take a look back at my chase. It wasn't the sunny masterpiece of this year, but it was still fun.
Canadian Pacific 7015, 1401, and 4107 cut through the Mississippi River backwater at Reno Bottoms just south of Reno, Minnesota on a grey October Sunday afternoon. The trio are deadheading the Royal Canadian Pacific Business train towards Kansas City for a run with the Brass on board later in the week.
This train had been led into St. Paul by a trio of Fs, but after one apparently developed a problem one of the two (at the time) new SD70ACu units that happened to have been recently delivered was added to the point.
Despite the grey day it was still a fun way to have spent the afternoon, making a chase down the River like I did so many times with the Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern MSPKC a decade or so ago. Oh to have had a drone back then to be able to do this shot with a trio or quartet of blue and yellows...
Pan Am Southern 28N is seen heading east by Wendell with a former CEFX SD90MAC leading the way. This engine has since been rebuilt into a SD70ACu. Photo taken February 22, 2017.
Slow rolling by MoW at Cotter, CP 7017 is greeted by a little fall color as 475 passes an original "Station One Mile" sign, 1 mile east of Cotter.
Cotter, IA
2020.10.03
I made the trek south to Calgary on November 11th for the unveiling of CP's Military tribute units, but there was another opportunity to be had as well. Word on the street was CP train 112 had arrived at Field BC in the morning of the 11th with Script painted SD70ACU #7010 leading. Since I had yet to see or shoot one of these units, three of us bailed out of CP's Ogden shops and headed west to intercept 112. The first location turned out to be my best shot of the day, which doesn't always work out that way!
No, its not Morants Curve, its a better location not too far to the east of the Iconic yet overgrown curve. Near Mile 100 of the Laggen Sub, there's a view point called Storm Mountain that provides a decent location to shoot eastbounds.
After setting out a MOW car in town, train 473 (Bensenville, IL - Nahant, IA) gets underway with CP 7018 (SD70ACU) leading a ratty CP AC4400. Seen here at the Route 72 overpass, screaming up hill out of Davis Junction, IL on the CP Chicago Sub. Taken: 5-21-21. Shortly after a few frames, the clouds came, making it harder chase. It was more chasing the sun around than chasing the train itself..
High sun but I figured I go out and get a shot of this matching pair of SD70-ACU's on the 380 with CP 7052 and CP 7050
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CP's business train departs Agincourt Yard in Toronto with a new crew onboard and a full fuel tank. Originally they were suppose to be passing through Toronto in the early morning hours, but a major washout/derailment up north in the directional running portion of CP and CN's transcons set them back several hours as they negotiated the congestion. Perhaps more spectacular than that the SD70ACu actually survived the trek from Calgary with no mechanical faults :)
Train: CP 40B with CP 7019 (SD70ACu), CP 1401 (FP9A), and CP 1900 (F9B).
CP Belleville Subdivision
Toronto, ON
After stopping in South Haven for a couple hours to have the 2nd unit swapped out due to mechanical issues, CP train 580 is finally heading east toward Minneapolis. As seen here, the CP Paynesville Sub curves around the southern edge of Maple Lake along 45th Street NW in Maple Lake, Minnesota.