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Lungo la celebre Route 66, in questo tratto tra Fenner e Goffs in California, la BNSF 3941 è in testa con altre quattro loco a questo lungo merci diretto ad ovest verso San Bernardino.
Along the famous Route 66, this stretch between Fender and Goffs in California, the BNSF 3941 is in the lead with four other locomotives in this long freight train directed west toward San Bernardino.
As the sunset begins to fade and dusk settles in, the CWEAX 15 rounds the last big curve on the Dotsero Cutoff as it rolls into Bond.
One of CSX's ST70AHs lead a 14 car Q158 towards CP TL on CSX's Trenton Sub. This was the first one I have caught leading a train, and I have to say these don't look half bad in CSX paint.
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.
This evening after work, I saw Dalton McAdams' post about this trio of new Tier IV GEVO's heading out of KC, so I decided to run out and try to catch it myself. Sure enough, I was able to catch the consecutvely numbered BNSF #3970-3972 heading up the Q CHISBD at two locations south of Topeka. This shot is from where the line heads under US75, just east of Ridgeton, KS.
It's awfully tough to not get excited about new engines on the head end of a train. That's got to be one of THE universal truths of railfanning throughout the years.
A new Canadian National GE ET44AC (Tier 4) at the location known locally "Stonehenge" near Rockmont, WI.
Stonehenge is the name given for the location of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway bridge abutments over the former North Western mainline.
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.
CN 3075 and CN 3048 lead CN 371 by Garden Avenue in Brantford amid a very foggy morning.
The weather this morning was pretty interesting, the drive up to Brantford was sunny until Highway 2 and then it was thick fog until Lynden Park Mall. It made for a cool shot!
UP 2718 enters Bealville, California with an unknown west bound stack train on the Union Pacific Mojave Subdivision. The last car on the train entered Tunnel 5 just before the power arrived around the corner from Tunnel 3. Truly a great spot along the line.
Power was:
UP 2718, UP 7929, UP, 8054 & UP 7364
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.
On a clear blue morning, one of CN's Veterans Tribute unit has found it's way onto the point CPKC train 419. The special Tier 4 teams up with a KCSM SD70ACe to accelerate the train south past the Chinook C-Train station.
Lenape is one of my go-to locations for shooting westbounds in the evening from the ground. This particular evening I was able to catch one of the 100 or so SD70AHT-4's that UP has in some prime light.
This resulted in me high-tailing it to Turkey Creek to get ahead of him and shoot him one more time. I posted that shot a couple days ago.
Five Union Pacific ACs lead the super hot Premium Intermodal train down into the bottom of Caliente as the train gets ready to make a 180º turn. The train is finishing off a fast decent down the Tehachapi's, as the Tacoma South Intermodal Terminal "TacSim", WA bound train stopped everything on the mountain Uphill and Downhill. Now that Union Pacific only runs northbound Z-train the running of this train and the ZLCLT are really prioritized even with work windows in effect.
CSX local C970 (18) comes out of the jungle that is the Fairless Branch on a dreary summer Sunday morning.
These things do nothing for me, they are almost as bad as 90MACs and yet I know everyone's eyes dilatate out here when one of these takes the point, but since these are still fairly new do to a lack of activity when they were deliver the paint is still pretty decent. So anyways here EMD's fifteenth or so attempt at making something as successful as a SD40-2 or even hitting and similar high notes that some of the previous SD70 models made with individual carriers. As Union Pacific 3063 slugs 70 empty autoracks for the Ferromex at Rio Grande, Texas around the big curve near the top of Beaumont.
It's nearly 40 miles of descending 1.25% grade from Mountainair to Belen, NM on the Belen Cutoff. Near the middle of it, the tracks traverse the narrow confines of Abo Canyon to squeeze through the Manzano Mountains.
Here, a short stack train rolls westward at Scholle as it prepares to enter Abo Canyon behind me. Scholle was the end of double-track from the east prior to BNSF opening a second main through the canyon in 2011.
Q LPCLAC6 17A (Quality Intermodal- Logistics Park Chicago [Elwood, IL] to Los Angeles, CA)
BNSF ET44C4 #3802
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #1022
Scholle, NM
May 18th, 2025
Union Pacific 2623 leads the Denver Z-train back onto home rails at Daggett, after a quick morning sprint over the BNSF's Cajon and Needles Subdivision. As the odd ball US&S Signals still stand under the new Vader's that get Westbound trains onto the BNSF.
6998 West leads 3 brand new Tier 4 units (3791-3793) up the hill at Ibis California. With the 95 degree weather and the grade, you could smell the paint baking on the new units..
The Siding could use some work though, still how often do you see jointed rail on CTC...
A closer look at Union Pacific 2695's position at Phillips as the wait continues for the opposing Z-train to make it's grand entrance.
As a sidenote: I would assume the telephone poles with the ratty wires to the left were at one point in time the Western Pacific's code line that followed the tracks, old school insulators on theses poles still. Hard to tell though since further south of here (RR West) there where taller more transmission looking lines with no wires on them at all...
CSX Q008 drops down to CP 5 in Ridgefield Park. The train will soon be crossing over to the adjacent NYS&W for yarding at Little Ferry. The two Tier 4 GEVOs leading the train are exactly 100 numbers apart...
CSX Q008:
CSXT 3381 ET44AH
CSXT 3281 ET44AH
A Progressive Rail SD70ACe tier 4 demonstrator, nicknamed a 'banana', leads the daily southbound manifest MKCVN 11 southbound through Carrollton, IL as snow begins to fall. The train will meet the northbound counterpart at Sherman siding near Jerseyville, IL before finishing its journey to East St. Louis, IL.
EMDX 7212 South - KCS MKCVN 11
Kansas City, MO - Venice, IL
KCS Godfrey Sub - MP 57.1 - Carrollton, IL
February 12, 2020 - 11:45 A.M.
Willen Lake MK 2 of 2.
The Willen Observation Wheel (WOW) freshly decorated for the festive season on Saturday. This was taken just a few hours before new Tier 4 restrictions were announced by the Government. The Wheel has been closed since Sunday and no one knows how long for...
CN 3069 and CN 3063 throttle up out of Brantford with CN 435.
Both units only being a few weeks out of Fort Worth looked pretty sweet and was worth shooting after work.
I was surprised at how quiet these two new Tier 4 units were when under load, not quite the same bark that older GE's have.
M412 heads east at Henry House AB with a Canadian service only ES44AC in the lead. This unit was part of an order of locomotives built without Tier 4 emissions, and is in captive service north of the border.
Some of the leaves in the Spruce Mountain Open Space have turned brown while others are still green as a UP coal load bound for the Nixon power plant in Fountain, Colorado rolls by.
CNANX 12
IDTX 4633 lives up to its Charger name as it blasts past the old Alton depot in Chatham at 90 mph.
IDTX 4633 - SC-44 Charger
Alton Depot - Chatham, Illinois
October 9, 2021
301 rolls south thru CPX183 with a fresh SC-44 Charger on the point.
IDTX 4627 - SC-44 Charger
Ridgely CPX183 - Springfield, IL
December 19, 2019
Q582 passes a brief stretch of old school code line poles, repurposed by TVA as power lines, along of the Chattanooga Sub north of Anderson, TN.
One of two daily trains on the KD Subdivision tops the grade at South Amherst on its way north to Corbin and Cincinnati.
A new SD70ACeT4, UP 3027 SD70AH, leads this empty Memphis (CMSWE9) coal train west on the Jeff City Sub. as it passes through Pacific, Mo. in the beautiful late afternoon light. There was another new T4 ACe second out but it was pulled in Dupo, Illinois earlier in the day.
Still cant wrap my head around these goofy looking new units.
The 7500 series leader of CPKC's current Tier 4 order is only a few week out of Wabtec's Fort Worth plant as it leads CPKC train 100 eastbound through Brickburn.
UPY 1003, one of Union Pacific's new Tier 4 rebuilt EMD switchers is spotted in Benicia on the YOZ60R yard job.
A rare occurrence these days; two trains meet at CP Boone on the NS Appalachia District. A CSX empty man for Loyall, KY holds the main while an NS turn job between Frisco and Norton waits in the siding.
UP's brand new Tier 4 SD70 #3059 leads the IDULB 03 onto the ex-RI Golden State route in Topeka, KS. This unit was delivered to the UP in Chicago on 3/31, and was making one of its first trips west.
Intermodal train Q136-25 heading east through downtown Connellsville along Water Street which was closed for three days to allow CSX to install new pre-assembled crossover track panels on the west end of the yard.
Union Pacific 2743 and Union Pacific 5152 an endangered SD70M, cross the snow covered Cajon Wash with 6,600 feet of EMP and HubGroup Intermodal Containers as the train descends the Palmdale Cutoff. The train is taking the long way as it heads to West Colton for a crew change and a change in destination. This train was originally set to terminate at the Shops (LATC) but due to a derailment near Caliente on the 26th, the IBRLC 24 which is actually running behind this train will terminate at the Shops instead, and with a AI and MQ set to arrive there in the afternoon, this train will head down to ICTF to be unloaded.
The last bits of light on the day and the moon is on the rise as the Veterans Unit led KCS MVNKC passes some standing rain water as it chugs west towards Vandalia, MO and ultimately Kansas City.
-KCS SD70ACe #4006 (Veterans Unit), EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7203, KCS AC44CW #4582 leading power
-KCS Train MVNKC
-KCS (ex-GWWR/CM&W/ICG/GM&O/etc) Roodhouse Sub, near MP 301
-Audrain Road 577 Crossing, East of Vandalia, MO
-November 10, 2019
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Two brand new Union Pacific ET44AH Tier 4 GE's, the 2653 and 2649 gleam in the winter sun as they pass under 7th Street approaching UP's Armourdale Yard in Kansas City, Kansas. January 13, 2016
On one of their first runs, the sparkling units with their large sloping radiators and redesigned exhaust, cruise by the Mill Street overpass with the Kansas City, Missouri skyline visible in the distance.
Passing through drab surroundings, the new locomotives, part of a 100 unit order built in December, 2015, add a splash of color into the otherwise barren mid-winter landscape. Spring is just over two months away!
January 10, 2020: A new Tier 4 YN3B painted ST70AH (SD70ACe) EMD engine leads CSX freight train Q541 (Cincinnati, OH-Waycross, GA) Southbound on the K&A Main of the CSX Etowah Sub at Fairmount, GA. 3 of the recently rebuilt GE engines were also included in the consist.
UP 3043 and friends are tied down in the old yard at Dayton, on the Sunset Route east of Houston. The train was dragged out of the main yard and tied down here to await an outbound crew.
UP Manifest
UP SD70AH #3043
UP C45AH #8132
UP GP15-1 #Y699
UP C44AC #7134
Dayton, TX
June 15th, 2024
The KCS MVNKC usually gets out of Venice early in the morning, but took longer than usual on this particular day. This had the result of making some of the shots as I follwed it north to be more backlit than I would have preferred. However, the later than usual running time opened up this shot at Piasa Creek as a possibility due to giving the sun time to cross over to the correct side of the tracks
-KCS SD70ACe #4006 (Veterans Unit), EMDX SD70ACe-T4 #7203, KCS AC44CW #4582 leading power
-KCS Train MVNKC
-KCS (ex-GWWR/CM&W/ICG/GM&O/etc) Godfrey Sub, near MP33
-Piasa Creek, Delhi, IL
-November 10, 2019
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BNSF 3683, an ET44C4 of all things ended up as the power for today's Union Pacific LMC40. This is the Lawrence Local, seen rounding Don Ball Curve and pulling onto Main 2 in its namesake city, just after meeting the CSX 325 east. Unfortunately, the stoplights didn't allow me to shoot the meet, but I'll take this as a consolation shot.