EMD End Cab Switchers (No 30/60)
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An eastbound Canadian National manifest freight crosses Prairie Creek Bridge at Hinton, Alberta, on the morning of July 8, 2014. Powering the train is a trio of EMDs, with SD70M-2 No. 8963 leading SD70I No. 5616 and SD70M-2 No. 8024.
Rising tall above ONR's Temagami Subdivision in the "Town That Silver Built", the Right-of-Way Mine headframe pays silent vigil as a trio of EMD's scream through Cobalt, Ont., with Englehart-bound tonnage in tow.
If you should ever find yourself in Cobalt, a visit to the Miner's Tavern is a must; the mysteries of this once-prosperous mining town, and the proud heritage that lies within, can be felt around every corner in the lore-filled barroom.
A family is out ice fishing on a frozen Neenah Slough, as Wisconsin Central train 65 passes by in the background on the day after Christmas in 1994. Train 65 has EMD GP30 No. 713, a former Soo Line unit equipped with AAR type B trucks from an Alco trade-in, and former Milwaukee Road EMD SDL39 No. 590.
With most shortlines generally operating on weekdays, I had to take advantage of an entire Wednesday off work yesterday. Initially I had planned to head east to Delaware on good authority that ESPN would run a blue and yellow trio out of Wilsmere, but when I punched this into the GPS I must've had a brainfart of some sort, as it began taking me west towards the MMID. By the time I noticed my mistake I was already half way to Union Bridge, so turning around would've been of a low mental standard. Instead I caught up to UBHF at Thurmont, where I was very pleasantly surprised to see a lashup of three flared 40's and a pair of oldies in tow, lined up with the 2060 facing east for the return. After a westbound chase to Highfield, I set up in Sabillasville after scoping out all the possible eastbound angles and settled for this winner. A nerve-wracking two hours later, and surely not long before the shadows consumed the ROW, the screaming dynamics of the MMID quintet could be heard roaring down the mountain, and a scene for the ages was converted into pixels.
QNSL's freight heads north out of Sept-Iles - I was pretty excited to get standard cabs and something other than an ore train here!
The BN-CP departs the Bluff for Northtown with a GP60M-3, faux-bonnet B40-8W, and two SD60Ms for power.
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
Breaking the silence along the Schuylkill River, The 270 - 275 lead Reading & Northern OCS-24 north under the old PRR Schuylkill Branch at Auburn, Pennsylvania. This was their first shake down run after being released from our Port Clinton diesel shop. Hats off to everyone involved, these things are sharp!
Continuing my walk from Snelling Avenue, I saw the UP transfer at East Minneapolis get a lineup when I was at Hamline Avenue. They got crossed over to the close main at St. Anthony for their trip down to St. Paul. Apparently the four snow-covered EMDs were the first to use this main since the snow the previous evening.
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.
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.
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.
Montana Rail Link’s day gas local curves eastbound through Weeksville, Montana, on September 20, 2012, led by venerable EMD SD45 No. 346.
Two SD60s and a SD40-2 have just pulled this Q241 out of Walbridge and are now getting up to track speed as they roll through Lemoyne. When I took this nearly four years ago, I was convinced it would be the last time I'd be there before signal replacements showed up. Fast forward to 2017, and the C&O is still pure between Walbridge and Fostoria, but the changes are coming fast.
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.
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.
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.
On a cool and breezy late September morning, a pair of SD60Ms and a GP39 thunder out of Big Lake with a 9000-foot mixed freight headed to Northtown.
As of now, the 1448 & 1428 are the only SD60Ms in active service assigned to Northtown, with other favorites having left to other terminals or sitting in storage.
I've been lucky to shoot 1428 a few times, but this is my first crack at the 1448.
Fall colors are just starting to pop around here, according to the MN DNR, we're behind this year compared to 2020 & 2021. A recent frost might accelerate the change.
It's been a couple of years since I shot a train at this location, and the weeds have gotten terrible.
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BNSF 1448 (blt 2/91 as BN 9271)
BNSF 1428 (blt 1/91 as BN 9251)
BNSF 2602 (blt 6/64 as ATSF 1343)
+155 cars
Utah Railway SD40 and a Union Pacific SD60M await assignment on a hot June 9, 1996 afternoon in Provo, Utah.
CP H37, the Northfield, crosses the Robert Street Lift Bridge with a pair of former Soo Line SD60s for power.
Another typical scene of second generation EMDs and post war era DMIR ore jennies roll south underneath the CN Rainy Sub while CN 6254 sounds for the crossing at Jeffrey Rd.
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
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 pair of SD75Is lead an empty autorack train south through North Holly on CN's Holly Subdivision bound for Flat Rock, Michigan.
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 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.
A pair of Bessemer and Lake Erie painted tunnel motors bracket a CN widecab SD40 as they shove a loaded Taconite train onto the ore dock.
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.
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)
A pair of MRL consecutive numbered GP35’s lead the local back into Bozeman, MT after making a run East to Livingston to work an industry and grab some cars. They will return to their yard in downtown Bozeman & tie up from the day.
CSX M434 runs north on the River Sub at Iona Island with CSX SD40-2 #8365 leading in some peak Fall color.
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.