EMD End Cab Switchers (No 30/60)
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East of Lehr, ND a solid DMVW road lash takes various empties for loading, passing some old field implements littered along the right of way.
A six-pack of Columbia Basin Railroad first generation EMDs lead a sizeable Connell turn toward the BNSF interchange at Connell. The power consists of CBRW 652, formerly an SD9 and one of only two units rebuilt by Montana Rail Link with components of various other locomotives into an SD19-1 as a result of a very short lived rebuild program, a former ATSF GP9u, and four chop nosed SD9s. Connell, WA
An assortment of classic EMD power, with one GEVO spoiler thrown in, are in charge on NS 37Q as they head through Lees Cross Roads on the Lurgan Branch. With the exception of the final two engines in the consist, everything here has since been rebuilt or retired.
Empty rack train Q210 eases through the siding at Howie on a gorgeous evening on CSX's Abbeville Subdivision. The trailing SD70AC was along for the ride as only the SD40-2 was online, making for some sweet EMD sounds as the train battled the rollercoaster-like profile of the former SAL line.
CSXT GP40-2 #6393 leads local job A700 through the rolling countryside of northwest Georgia utilizing an ex SAL branch hence the milepost marking the distance to Richmond, VA. The ex RF&P EMD wasnt too bad either.
A lengthy R-LAUBOZ blasts through the town of Big Timber with a pair of classic EMDs up front. The signal here is a bit of an oddity, with modern heads mounted on the original Northern Pacific cantilever. Most of the other replaced signals have modern aluminum masts (with a few aluminum cantilevers here and there).
A brand new EMD SD9043MAC leads a 55-car Roper-Stockton manifest at 2nd South in Salt Lake City, Utah the evening of July 5, 1997. UP's MROST symbol was short lived. It would soon change to a Roper to Roseville train.
A pair of mighty EMD widecabs hustle the daily Grand Forks "special" out of Big Lake in the last few moments of sun light.
The SD60Ms have split recently, both finding a pairing with an SD75, in this case, 1448 has found 252 as a partner.
With the weather getting colder, most trains are getting the GE treatment with DPs. But this shorter train was perfect for these two EMDs.
Would like to give my thanks and appreciation to Chris Laskowski who not only helped me get this train but also helped me with editing. He's the man!
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BNSF 1448 (blt 2/'91 as BN 9271)
BNSF 252 (blt 12/'95 as SF 8252)
With a lightning storm looming behind, ATSF 92 (FP45), joined by CP 9023 (SD40F), waits outside of Barn 9 at IRM for the next day's EMD 100th Anniversary event.
NS 19D hauling empty Autoracks from Port of Charleston to Greer, SC led by an EMD ACu Unit about to depart Charleston's Seven Mile Yard.
Caught in between a pair of "failed" ex-Union Pacific SD90MAC Dynamic Brake hatches, Progress/EMD has a nice weekend power lineup left for those who shoot above the fence line. In all my visits here, this lineup almost made me feel like it was "open house" all over again! Kudos to the hostler.
With both of their EMD 16-710G3C prime movers screaming in Notch 8, BNSF 9194 & 8430 are leading a loaded coal train near Palmer Lake, CO.
A few units sit out in the backlot at EMD's LaGrange plant (which is actually located in McCook), my last stop before returning the rental car. The Windy City is barely visible on the horizon.
Although locomotives were once built here by the thousands, the plant has been downsized significantly in recent decades; it doesn't take a big leap of the imagination to think everything will move one day to the newer plant in Indiana, leaving the historic facility seen here to be only a memory.
I have no idea why the 1984-vintage CP unit was there.
Just about the time I saw a route out of the Bluff Yard and up the Midway, I saw a message from Dan K about the BNCP with 5-units. I had enough time to make it to Rollins for this all EMD lineup and even a train of autoracks.
Rounding a curve while climbing the hill into Siloam Springs, AR on a sunny Monday, January 9, 2023 morning, three GP40-3 units haul a cut of mixed cars northbound, destined for industries in Siloam Springs and Gentry.
A UPY GP15-1 passes the former site of Noble Street Tower as it shoves towards Ogilvie with coaches serviced at California Avenue. It's crazy to think that it's already been three years since the Panhandle lead in the foreground was last used.
Tacked on at Livingston, a 3 unit helper set with a pair of ACes and a SD40-2R fill the hot summer air with diesel exhaust as they push on the rear of a train of oil cans up to the top of Bozeman Pass as the single DPU already on the train is insufficient for this. The power will cut off after on the other side and then return to Livingston for their next train.
CBNS 1705, (GP9) leads the charge on westbound 305 leading a pair of SD40-2's past the West River Station sign and former siding on this chilly, fall morning. The first flurries of the year fell silently and ended quickly at Lansdowne, and thankfully that was the first and last of the white stuff that we encountered today. While the weather was cold and dismal, it was just good to get out with Geoff again as its been some time since we've gotten out together for a day of shooting.
Utah Railway SD40 and a Union Pacific SD60M await assignment on a hot June 9, 1996 afternoon in Provo, Utah.
In June of 1993 after moving to Colorado I took a trip out along the Craig Branch and just before I arrived in Craig a loaded coal train passed me headed east. It was lead by EMD SD70M demo units. I managed more than a few shots as I followed back to Pburg where they changed crews and continued towards Denver. Seen here just east of Toponas headed for Egeria Canyon, 6.93
Southern Pacific GP60 No. 9770 leads a hot Denver, Colorado - Oakland, California Forwarder through Riverton, Utah the evening of May 20, 1994. Barely six months old at the time, 9770 is first in the last group of GP60s ever built, among the last production four-axle "geep". EMD produced 380 GP60 series units between 1985 and 1994, including 294 GP60s, 63 GP60Ms, and 23 GP60Bs. Southern Pacific had the largest roster by far at 195, delivered between 1987 and 1994.
Q511 rolls south at XN Tower on the Toledo Subdivision. The train is being led by one of the few remaining SD50's on CSX's roster.
A brand new GE ES44AC poses beside sixty year (at the time) EMD E8A in Spencer, North Carolina at the NC Transportation Museum in July 2012.
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The UP's Marsh Job, LBU52, backed up to pickup four covered hopper cars to haul out of the yard at Nidera from the Jones Island area in Milwaukee.
The EMD switcher SW8, built in March 1952, holds off to the side while the Marsh Job gets their work done.
STBX 210 (Former Colorado & Western 210)
UP 1158 (Former UP 1943, SSW 9644)
After pausing a few miles east due to air issues, NS H68 blasts up the grade with three old EMDs leading a massive train for Reading. As most of the mainline scene around Allentown has become exclusively widecabs, H68 is the one train nearby that consistently uses nice older power.
Four EMDs of different varieties lead loads out of MinnTac at Mountain Iron toward Two Harbors. With the departure of the 403 you can't beat orange Bessy's on the ore trains and was glad to get the 169 bridge shot with the 909 leading.
A eastbound BNSF oil can head's through Steward, IL with 4 EMD unit's on a very very cold January day.
Vintage EMD power leads BLU train T31 westbound over an elevated trestle on its final approach into Canton.
Vanwege de 32e editie van de Emder Matjestage was het de bedoeling in 2023 dat er twee! sonderzuge naar Emden zouden komen. Vooralsnog was het de planning dat IGSO een rit vanuit Koblenz had gepland met de TEE Rheingold van het DB Museum met de 103, maar deze was geannuleerd.
Als tweede sonderzug zou Historische Eisenbahnfahrzeuge Lübeck e. V. in samenwerking met KulturLokschuppen Neumünster een sonderzug laten rijden met een SEL 181 met Abteilwagens vanuit Neumünster, maar deze was op het laatst gewijzigd naar een VT 628 vanwege het lage aantal deelnemers.
Achteraf hadden we beter deze hele trein moeten skippen en ergens anders heen moeten gaan. De stichting waar dit treinstel eigendom van is heeft de laatste tijd veel aan het treinstel gezeten wat betreft beschilderingen en bestickeringen. Het lijkt wel alsof de bestickering van voorgaande ritten er deels onprofessioneel ervanaf gepield is. Het treinstel ziet er in mijn ogen behoorlijk slecht uit door de halve bestickeringen. Zoals te zien zit de bestickering nog op de ramen.
Ondanks dat de trein via Bremen en Oldenburg naar Emden kwam, reed de trein bijna nergens goed voor de zon. Op één punt reed de trein redelijk goed en dat was bij Nortmoor, een paar kilometer voor Leer Ostfriesland.
Het is even over 13:00 wanneer de HEL 628 201 de Nederlandse en Duitse fotografen in Nortmoor passeert.
Doug Harrop Photography • July 10, 1978
With eight EMD locomotives on the point, a UP Ogden to Salt Lake City manifest crosses from Main 1 into North Yard at CP 18th North in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The power transfer from Riverdale Yard includes an SD40, SD40, DD35, GP9, GP30, GP9, GP40, and GP9.
An all-EMD locomotive consist powering an eastbound Union Pacific freight, climbs through Echo Canyon east of Echo, Utah, on September 26, 2006. Flared SD70M No. 4885 leads a SD40-2 and a SD70ACe past colorful cliffs dominating the scenery in the canyon.
IPPX No. 1 basks in the clear afternoon sunshine at the Intermountain Power Railcar Service Center in Springville, Utah the afternoon of June 7, 1985. The attractively painted SW1001 arrived from EMD with a multitude of options including an air conditioned cab.
CSX M434 runs north on the River Sub at Iona Island with CSX SD40-2 #8365 leading in some peak Fall color.
The SD60E program was still a novelty in 2014 and NS seemed to enjoy putting these out on the road on manifest freights. One example of these rebuilt units leads a standard SD70 and an SD40-2 in charge of 16G. I've heard unanimously negative things about these engines from crews, but from a fan's perspective they provided something different when on the road. On the left, the smokestacks remaining from Hershey's original factory remain standing. Chocolate is still made here, but in newer facilities on the west side of town.