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CP 7051 leading two other ACU rebuilds past a set of Rock Island signals in Cotter, IA on the Ottumwa Sub. This 475 will head North towards Muscatine where it will stop to make a quick pickup before continuing North.
Well, it took me a hot minute but I finally got a heritage ACU in acceptable light after the unbearable cloudbang with the pair on 197 a year and a half ago. CP 7013 leads train 691 west into Maple Lake, a one unit wonder, going pretty slow along the way. The train would stop in South Haven, so that was the end of that. Why did I title the photo this? Take a look at the nose.
An empty grain train heads back to Canada eastbound at Mitchell Point, just west of Hood River OR, Aug 29 2020. Ratty Union Pacific AC4400 5910 leads three CP units including the Air Force tribute unit SD70ACU 7023.
NS 148, a daily Kansas City to Decatur manifest heads east through Hannibal Missouri passing by the baseball stadium that stands on the Southside of Downtown. Leading 148 is NS 7278 one of the remaining NS ACus that survived the purge of ACus from the NS roster
CP 7045 passes under the classic signal bridge at Hoffman Avenue as it departs from the crew change at St. Paul, Minn.
A cold and damp afternoon, finds a desert wind blowing through Reeseville in the form of Canadian Pacific's desert sand painted locomotive leading the hot stack train, 199.
Canadian Pacific painted this locomotive to match Canadian and U.S. military equipment in arid regions. Support Our Troops.
CP 199
CP 7021,8116, DPU 8131
Reeseville, WI.
Autumn 2019
CP 286 brought out quite a few railfans to the entrance of Bensenville Yard, and rightfully so. Powering the train east by Tower B17 are CP 7018 and UP 6310, one of the few remaining AC44CW's left on UP's roster retaining Southern Pacific's speed lettering.
CP 281 arrives Milwaukee as it rolls underneath the unique signal cantilever at KK Bridge interlocking.
Thanks to a heads up from Brad Grefe, I was able to get out to Birmingham, MO yesterday to shoot CP train 474 coming into KC behind a pair of their SD70ACUs, the 7001 and 7037. These things are pretty, damn neat!
I wasn't even there for 45 minutes, and I got this one, AND a westbound NS train as well. For a spot that's occasionally sleepy, that was a nice treat.
CP 7007-5107-3058 lead 261 out of St. Croix. The CP 3058 is returning from being overhauled by NRE in Silvis.
One week after photographing CP 236 with CP 7018 leading we were lucky to have 7018 leading again but this time on the point of CP 237.
Here it is pictured heading through rural Waterdown on its return trip to Toronto.
Now through the slow orders, 541 flies into Belgrade at track speed. The crew seemed pretty excited to see me on the overpass here. I decided I would end my endeavor at this spot, now that the train would be hard to catch up to until at least Glenwood, where of course it would stop overnight. I'd say chasing 2 ACU leaders from 2 different railroads is a pretty productive day, eh?
Canadian Pacific loaded ethanol train CP 650 is just north of Port Kent, NY with Wickham marsh to the left and Lake Champlain to the right. EMD SD70ACU CP 7006 leads today's train.
The crews of T-71 and 2-241 are all smiles and waves as they pass each other between Buck Diamond and Quebec St East in London. CP T-71 has just finished working Novell Polymers and is waiting to enter the Yard behind 2-241.
Trains: CP T-71 with CP 4428 (GP38-2) and CP 4429 (GP38-2).
CP 2-241 with CP 7016 (SD70ACu).
CP Galt Subdivision
London, ON
The "Desert Sand" or "Arid Regions" leads northbound empty crude, which is a few miles away from interchange to become CP 577.
OPACPKC07
Kansas City, MO
June 9, 2022 8:55AM
CP 7010 and 7015 lead train 197 across the 904 ft long Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge on their maiden revenue run.
A three railroad consist lead by neat looking Canadian Pacific SD70ACU #7047 climbs the hill between Solitude and Floy out in the Eastern Utah Desert.
This was on BNSF's Eastbound Provo to Denver trackage rights train.
After stalling between Elkhorn City and Skaggs, B665 finally got moving again and knocked down the signal at Allen about 3 and a half hours after leaving Shelbiana. It's not every day that you see a CP SD70ACU leading down the Clinchfield, so we gave chase.
With just another fifteen miles to go for the Canadian crew onboard, 120 is seen descending downgrade into Holeb alongside the Moose RIver. One of CP's four remaining script heritage SD70s is seen leading a KCS ES44 and a CP GP20 with about two miles of train behind them.
CP 281 splits the late Milwaukee Road-era searchlights at the interlocking in Sturtevant, Wisconsin on the historic double-track MILW mainline between Chicago and Milwaukee. Leading is one of ten retro-painted CP SD70ACUs in the Script-lettering used in the 1960s.
CP SD70ACU #6644 leads a unit canola meal train down into the valley at Gwynne Alberta. Painted to commemorate the June 6 1944 Allied invasion of France, the unit definitely stands out from the rest of the fleet!
A not so common SD70ACU leader is on the point of 22A as it rolls through downtown Johnson City, TN in beautiful evening light on the A Line
With snow falling, CP 7022 leads an eastbound container train at Ottertail.
CP Mountain Subdivision
February 5, 2020
Easing across Main Track 3 of the KCT East- West Corridor on top of the KCT Sheffield Flyover is BNSF train U-SAPCPG1-66T with one of the ten CP Heritage SD70ACU's on the point.
These are oil empties from Stroud, OK returning north to CP in Canada via an interchange at Noyes, MN Today, this is train is being routed through Galesburg, IL and Minneapolis, MN instead of it's typical routing via Sioux City, IA and Wilmar, MN. 8/22/21.
CP 7036 leads Canadian Pacific train 252 at Port Henry, NY along the shore of Lake Champlain. Most of CP's SD70ACU's have been absent form the D&H for months while having PTC issues resolved so it's nice to see them leading trains on this line again.
CP SD70ACU #7014 works the west end of Englewood Yard in some low winter sun, building outbound MEWFW-15 for Fort Worth.
Trailing is KCSM grey ghost AC44 #4503, making this the second time in as many months that 7014 has led a colorful lashup out of Houston.
Of all the places I expected to shoot one of CP's heritage ACUs, on the Staples Sub wasn't it.
But, sure enough, luck would be with us as CP 7016 was in command of U-SAPCPG1-66T as it traversed the Staples Subdivision west toward Noyles.
Sunset gets earlier every day, but the 7016 timed just right for prime evening light as it rumbles through CP 52.8.
At the last second, I jumped down off the bed of my new Ford Ranger and quickly swapped to the long lens, glad I did.
Just goes to sure you still never know what to expect on the railroad, even in 2021.
Thanks to Chris & Douglas for their assistance!
Uphill Struggle With 12,000 tons on the drawbar, this SD70ACu is in full voice climbing Campbellville Hill straining to keep it's tonnage from stalling.
Canadian Pacific SD70ACu 7021 leads CP 8116 on 473-11 from Bensenville to Nahant over Duck Creek in Bettendorf, IA on December 12, 2019.
CP 7021 wears the sand colour that the Canadian and U.S. armies apply to fighting vehicles and equipment serving in arid climates.
With Shoreham work complete, 149 is well underway as it leaves Medina behind and cruises westward into the setting sun with lights to South Haven.
On Friday morning, I had a good time getting out along Canadian Pacific's Kansas City Sub to photograph their southbound business train.
While mid-day summer sun isn't ideal, and this consist that they cobbled together is something just short of tragic, it was the first time that I've had the ability to photograph any of CP's business trains, and possibly the last time.
Here, the train is headed south at Lawson, MO on the CP side of the joint/split UP-CP trackage through the area. They were running down M2, which is the CP main and pulling uphill towards Excelsior Springs.
Once in the yard, the train would be combined with KCS' business train for a Monday morning trip to Laredo, TX on the KCS.
Video of this can be seen here: youtu.be/OjKkRRpOAkY
In 2006, while one train gets out of town on the former Southern Railway Washington, DC to Atlanta main, a second train waits in the background for it to pass so it can take the R Line south. It was rebuilt recently to NS 1800, a SD70ACU, with a new safety cab.
On Friday morning, I had a good time getting out along Canadian Pacific's Kansas City Sub to photograph their southbound business train.
While waiting for the business train in, I was surprised by this 576 oil train running ahead of it. Getting a bonus train running in a new-to-you location is always good, and while the freshly-repainted GE's are generally nice to see, I would've preferred to have the military-painted 7021 on the point. Oh, well.
The train is headed south at Lawson, MO on the CP side of the joint/split UP-CP trackage through the area. They were running down M2, which is the CP main and pulling uphill towards Excelsior Springs.
Video of this can be seen here: youtu.be/OjKkRRpOAkY
An SD70ACu painted in the two-tone sky camouflage colour used on CF-18 fighter jets works on the tailend of a loaded grain, while the Rockies loom in the distance.
A heritage ACU leads 243 west on the Paynesville Sub out of Maple Lake. I originally went out for a KCS MAC pair on a ballast train, but after getting dinged by a large cloud bank out west, I went east to intercept this train. Luckily, no cloud bang happened here.
One of the more eclectic consists that you'll see leads an empty grain train from the Port of Houston northward on the East Belt in northeast Houston.
GSHOWA 30 (Grain Shuttle- Houston, TX [PTRA North Yard] to Wakeeney, KS)
CP SD70ACU / DRF-43 #7014
NS D9-44CW #9456
BNSF SD70MAC #9653
Houston, TX
October 31st, 2022
After stopping to allow a southbound CSX train to clear the junction, CP 141 is cleared for takeoff.