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Burlington Northern Expediter train 42 crosses the Rock River and curves away from Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989.
I know, the weather is crappy and it’s “stick” season in the Midwest—so why am I out photographing trains? Hey, when you’re working full time, you can’t always wait until the weather is nice on weekends. Besides, powering the long piggyback train is venerable BN EMD GP40 No. 3000, still working hard, complete with a nice dent in the nose. Originally built for CB&Q in December 1966 as their No. 170, the locomotive will be taken out of service shortly after this photo and remanufactured into a GP40M by June 21, 1989.
Seaboard System B36-7 No. 5865 leads a speeding TOFC consist through Sanford FL on 12 March 1987. In the early 80s the Seaboard reintroduced the famous SAL passenger train name to brand an expedited perishable service using similar equipment as this express, running from the Sunshine State to the Northeast markets.
1943 Beech 18 Expeditor N9109R Magic Moonlight 43-33403 USAAF
Construction Number 4383
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Over Ballycotton, Co Cork 31/07/25. Photo taken from DC-3 N431HM. If you look closely at the nose you can see the reflection of the DC3.
Built 1952 and taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 2344. Next registration was N223CM and has kept this registration with numerous owners.
Santa Fe expedites some westbound TOFC at Kernan, Illinois. This may have been QNYLA? I dunno. It was impressive though.
In a view is from an impressive overlook in Grandad Bluff Park, Burlington Northern “Expediter” intermodal train 42 rolls past—actually through part of—the Forest Hills Public Golf Course at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on the morning of April 23, 1994. One of the few places (only?) that I know of that has a golf cart grade crossing to access the entire course from the clubhouse. Surely “fore” has been yelled as a ball went awry toward a train. And undoubtedly a nicely-timed blow of an airhorn from an engineer on a passing train messed up a shot or swing. Today, there is an underpass where one of the cart crossings used to be—but it still is a great place to mix in some train watching while chasing around a little white ball.
Beech D18 Expeditor 3N N6670 in Royal Canadian Air Force livery 2300 RCAF Arctic Annie
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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At least for this salmon and about 40 more on this day by this voracious fisher bear.
This bear had no problem catching and tucking right in to fresh salmon, one after another!
These salmon are so close to death. The bears just expedite things a bit for them.
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A classic American design, 'Good Vibrations' certainly looked good buzzing past the tower at Compton Abbas!
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1956 Beech E18S 189 N165X C/N BA-189
This aircraft flies in the colours of the US Navy livery
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Beech C-45 Expeditor N9840Z USAAF 44-47393 & 52-10956
In 1944 at the end of WWII this aircraft served with USAAF as 44-47393 a C-45F and in 1954 the aircraft was converted to a C-45H and served with the USAAF as 52-10956
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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1946 Beech D18S Expeditor N30G seen at Coleman Kelly Field, aka Destin Executive Airport, Okaloosa County, Florida
Note the wrap around one-piece windshield
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1943 Beech RC-45J Expeditor C/N 5523 N40189 BuNo 51218 US Navy
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 20191943 Beech RC-45J Expeditor C/N 5523 N40189 BuNo 51218 US Navy
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Beech D18 Expeditor 3N N6670 in Royal Canadian Air Force livery 2300 RCAF Arctic Annie
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Beech Expeditor 3NM (D18S) departing Oshkosh runway 9 with the green dot below. This aircraft shares the C-FTLU registration with the DC-9 that operated Air Canada Flight 797
With a Paducah Rebuild GP10 in tow, BNSF Train J ABIAUM1 30A rounds the curve at 30th Street as it leaves the KCT Railway for the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. on Main Track 2 as Engineer Wil Burke gives us a friendly wave.
Though the "high-wide" symbol might be somewhat misleading, railroads commonly use this prefix type on expedited or high value moves to differentiate from other less prioritized trains, or ones that require less special handling. The hopper car is along for the ride to satisfy minimum axle requirements for properly shunting signal systems.
The GP10 was built for Illinois Central as GP9 IC 9120 in 12-1955 with a builder number of 20758 frame number 5409-3. In March 1973 it emerged from shop as a graduate of the ICG's Paducah Rebuild program as ICG 8329 as a GP10. It was later sold to the US Army, and renumbered USAX 1873. Later retired and sold to S&S Leasing and renumbered SSRX 1873, it soon found a new home on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad and renumbered MRSR 9120, regaining its original number, while owned by American Heritage Railways in 2016.
It was painted in the Milwaukee Road-inspired livery as seen here and pulled trains in Washington until COVID-19 shut the railroad down, and eventually forced AHR to seek a new owner.
The locomotive was then moved into storage on the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad in Abilene, KS; the ASVR being a fairly recently affiliated partner with AHR. The Branson Scenic Railway was purchased by AHR in 2024, and the movement of the locomotive was expedited to that property in this special move in order to restore service for their busy Independence Day holiday week of excursions due to their GP30, BSRX 99 experiencing a sudden prime mover failure.
The engine was interchanged to the MNA Railroad at Aurora, MO, quickly wyed, and raced to Branson to be placed in service. By July 3rd it had been turned, serviced, tested, and re-lettered to pull the train out of Branson, facing south.
Locomotive: HRMX 9120
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Hamilton John.C. Munro International airport,Canada...01 October 2019. Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.It was built on 1946.
Allegheny CV-580 in the hanger at PIT back in July 1976....
delivered 2-1953 to Braniff
6-1962 to Allegheny
late 1976 to Great Lakes
8-1978 to Summit as N534SA
2-1989 to European Expedite as OO-EEA
3-1990 to Canair as C-FHEO
Beech Expeditor 3N D18S (msnA-673/CA-73) An ex-RCAF aircraft with the old cheat line still visible. (msnA-673/CA-73) An ex-RCAF aircraft with the old cheat line still visible.
Delightful vintage Beech G18S Expeditor '436784' aka N45CF rumbles away from Fairford after appearing at RIAT 2019
Presumably re-painted in connection with this year's D-Day 75th Anniversary I think I preferred her last external finish:
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BNSF 1095 and GATX 1243 lead the afternoon Chicago to St. Paul intermodal into Midway Yard the bone chilling day back of Jan. 25, 1997. I remember walking up to the Snelling Ave. bridge to shoot a couple of months old Goatboat Dash 9 and freezing in the wind and cold.
I wonder how the GATX SD38-2 did in fast intermodal service mixed with a new Dash 9 like this. They probably didn't get to 60MPH much on the Reserve Mining, but I saw these GATX SD38-2s on these Chicago to St. Paul intermodals more than once, usually by themselves. Seems like a bit of a miscast with that model known for lugging high tonnage trains at slow speeds. Couldn't have been much for tonnage on this #47 as trailers still ruled the intermodal trains from Chicago to the Twin Cities back in 1997. Wasn't soon after this that #47 was changed into an alpha Q-symbol.
CN P276 rockets along the Kingston sub with an odd blank Siemens coach in tow. The coach heading for testing in Ottawa.
Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr is led by Rio Grande EMD GP40 No. 3079 at the station stop of Grand Junction, Colorado, on February 25, 1988. Because of the long length of the Zephyr in this era, Rio Grande frequently added an EMD GP40/GP40-2 locomotive to expedite the train over the railroad. Also on this particular day, on the rear of the train is an additional car, business car No. 100, the “Kansas,” freshly-renamed from “Wilson McCarthy” in 1987.
Doug Harrop Photography • March 9, 1985
Doug was in Utah's Weber Canyon and captured this impressive "telesmash" image of UP 6916 leading the WPX (Western Pacific Expediter) train at Devils Slide, Utah.
UP 6916 was among 25 DDA40X locomotives Union Pacific pulled from long-term storage in 1983, and restored to service due to a surge in traffic. By mid-1985, the surge was over, and 6916 was retired, repainted, and donated to the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah.
CSX train R171, the southbound Orange Blossom Special, rolls south (B&O west) under the US 322 overpass at Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania. One of the hottest trains on the lines that hosted it, the OBSS was a fan favorite north of Washington due to Richmond Fredericksburg &Potomac leaders. The RF&P’s cab signal system requirements dictated that a home road engine had to lead, and they ran through at Potomac Yard to allow expedited crew changes.
Beech C-45H Expeditor CA-164 'Good Vibrations' G-BKGL, running hot on the exhaust, during a night shoot at Abingdon airfield.
Beech D18 Expeditor 3N N6670 in Royal Canadian Air Force livery 2300 RCAF Arctic Annie
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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Burlington Northern “Expediter” piggyback train 42 flies through the Illinois countryside east of Chana on April 6, 1991. The train is led by GP20C No. 2003, one of BN’s unique Caterpillar-powered GP20s. Rebuilt by Generation II Locomotives between 1988 and 1990, ten units (Nos. 2000-2009) were equipped with a Caterpillar 3500-series 2,000 hp engine, along with other improvements like an all new electronic control system. One obvious external difference was a new angular cab replacing the EMD original.
1943 Beech 18 Expeditor N9109R Magic Moonlight
Last Military Serial 43-33403 USAAF Construction Number 4383
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2019
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BN 7116 rolls along on BN’s triple track mainline through Naperville with, IIRC, an Expediter TOFC train. I believe there was a special crew arrangement to run these trains between Chicago and the Twin Cities. Perhaps the BNSF still runs them today.
1942 Beech C-45H Expeditor (Beech 18)
constructed in 1941 and has served with the USAAF and USAF as 41-9442 and served again in 1953 with the USAF as 51-11835
N213DE 111835 AF-392 USAF
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2019
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