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KCS's beautifully restored set of FP9's rounds the bend downgrade at Eagleton in the early morning on the way to Shreveport.
PAR 1 and PAR 2 (née-CN FP9s) lead Pan Am Railway's Office Car Special east through The Willows at Ayer, MA. With Pan Am Railways is up for sale, this very well could have been the last run of the OCS.
Stretched out in the Little Blue River Valley, KCS Train B-KCKC-05 heads through Selsa on the KCS Mexico Sub. Before the trip back the power was run around the train and now has FP9 #2 in the lead, which is fairly uncommon. The train is on the return leg of a round trip to Marshall, MO out of Kansas City touring the new Central Missouri AGRIService LLC Grain Elevator.
This image was used in the August 2017 issue of Railfan & Railroad Magazine, and on the cover of Kansas City Southern Railway's 2018 Calendar.
Locomotives: KCS 2, KCS 3, KCS 1
6-5-17
Independence, MO
The Pan Am Office Car train runs west on the Freight Main approaching CPF-297 (Wamesit) in Tewksbury with PAR 1 leading the way.
Vintage FP9s have been a staple of Pioneer Railcorp's Keokuk Junction Railway since they were acquired for freight service in the mid-2000s. However, Pioneer's new owner BRX Holdings has deemed the venerable EMDs unfit for KJRY's needs and plans to take the units out of service and place them in storage at the railroad's facility in La Harpe, IL. On what looks to be the last week of service for the Fs hauling freight, FP9A #1750 and its accompanying B unit (and a GP20) lug cars from the Tazewell and Peoria's yard in East Peoria westward through the jungles of Illinois on their return run to Mapleton. The crew will tie the train down in just a couple more miles before resuming the westbound trip to La Harpe the next day...for the final time with the Fs.
No joke, it took me 70 miles to get another shot of this train, credit to the CP MOW brigade on highway 55 for that. Here the train heads through the pond at Milepost 39, a couple miles west of Buffalo. Was a pretty frustrating chase to say the least.
After finding out that Pan Am was planning on running their OCS, I ventured to Waterville to wait for them to leave. With the passengers all aboard, the OCS heads west. With the arrival of spring there are plenty of flowers to chose from as props. As PAR 1 is about to cross Main Street in Waterville, a nice large patch of dandelions served as a nice prop for the OCS.
VIA Rail's eastbound Super Continental crosses a trestle at Hinton, Alberta on Aug. 28, 1986. Lead unit 6510 is on display today in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
A nice hole in the clouds opened up for a group of us at Readfield as the OCS makes a Sunday run towards Rigby. While the fall color this year was fairly dismal, there was a nice bit of color in the in the marshy area of Readfield. Pan Am's pair of FP9s lead their three car OCS, with the dome car "Bluebird" (named as a tribute to its origins on the Wabash) sticking out somewhat from the rest of the painted train.
Canadian Pacific's Business train was crossing the Rock River outside of Byron on the trip back to the Great White North in April of 2019.
Lead GMD FP9 1401 was actually built for rival Canadian National in 1958 as CN 6541 but has been restored into classic CP paint for use on their business trains.
CP 4107 hitches a ride to Calgary after extended absence to get work done.
CPKC 243 head-end power: CP 8124 (GE AC4400CWM) - CP 4107 (EMD FP9)
Canadian Pacific's business train passes the former Chicago and North Western depot in Clinton, IA with A-B-A-A FP9's and 8 cars bound for Kansas City.
November 17, 2017.
The autumn sun has called it a day, as the trio of Keokuk Junction's Classy F units marches eastward toward Mapleton.
CN's Windsor - Toronto train #144 approaches Frank Lane, east of Komoka, behind FP9 6518 and FPB-4 6868.
For awhile in the later 90's about the most common power to be seen on the daily Gladstone-Soo yard freights were SD45's and AC FP9's. For the most part the hoods would be leading and hard to believe now but sights like this were an everyday occurrence. 6598. 1754, 1750 and 3003 head west out of Trout Lake with 61 cars on SOGBA. February 10, 1999.
Looking eastward from the Plains Road West overpass, VIA FP9-6525 is leading a W/B Corridor train. Based on the time of the photo, and after consulting my VIA System Timetable, I'm going to say this is Rapido train #85, the St. Clair. It was scheduled out of Toronto at 1700.
A westbound VIA rail train rolls through Brockville, Ontario. I believe that this was a Montreal – Toronto Rapido, a limited train that did not stop in Brockville.
A Keokuk Junction Railway freight approaches Kolbe station at Mapleton, Illinois, at the end of a blustery April 7, 2016. Two EMD FP9s (Nos. 1750 and 1752) and GP20 No. 2003 power the westbound train of “hot cars” picked up at an interchange yard at Bartonville on this former TP&W line.
The Pan Am OCS pulls into Ayer after making a deadhead run west from Rigby. With todays news it seems the future of the Pan Am F units is grim. I'm glad I decided to grab one last shot on this chase in the very last of the light.
The return trip of the 1400 departure of MNA Train BSR 21 from Branson emerges from the 2,657 Cricket Tunnel on the MNA Aurora Sub., which is the former MP White River Route. The tunnel was bored from 1903-1905 as part of the White River Railway.
The locomotive was built in 1-1951 by EMD for the B&O, builder number 12668, frame number 6161-A23 as BO 369, later BO 4556. It passed to the Maryland Department of Transportation as MDOT 7183, and was rebuilt in 1981 by MK as an F9PHA, later renumbered MARC 7183, and was renumbered to MARC 83 in 1989. It came to the Branson Scenic Railway in 1995 as BSRX 83.
It was wrecked in a collision with an MNA train in 1997, rebuilt with the cab and nose from VIA FP9 6530 at Midwest Locomotive in Kansas City, renumbered and repainted as BSRX 98 in 1998.
Locomotive: BSRX 98
3-21-17
Cricket, AR
Flying eastbound on the Crowsnest Subdivision east of Fort Macleod, Alberta, is Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train on September 15, 2002. Dashing the train toward Lethbridge is a A-B-A set of covered wagons led by FP7 No. 1400, F9B No. 1900, and a former CN FP9 now numbered No. 1401.
KCS Train B-KCJV-26 rolls East at a brisk 40 miles per into the small mid-Missouri town of Higbee. The train is just about 40 miles out from the crew change at Mexico where a new crew will hop onboard for a trip to the grain loop at Jacksonville, Illinois.
Canadian Pacific's OCS with three of CP's FP9's stops at Rouses Point, NY Station for a crew change after a routine US Custom's check at the Canadian border. The train is over 15 hours late, after losing time between Calgary and Montreal, and needing axle/truck replacements in Montreal.
The FP9 A-B-A set with the Royal Canadian Pacific business train begin their trip down former KCS territory, the CPKC Pittsburg Sub, after clearing clearing the KCT diamond at KCS Crossing. Operating as CPKC train 40B, this deadhead move out of Calgary, AB has had a rough couple of days trying to get through both Minnesota and Iowa, but this morning, they're moving right along following a quick crew change at Air Line JCT, where it completed its trip on former MILW trackage.
They're bound for the deep south, currently headed to Shreveport, LA. On September 14, officials will ride on the former Meridian & Bigbee Railroad, which was joinlty acquired by the CPKC and CSX in late 2024.
I didn't have time to chase this morning, but this one and down will work for me. It got hosed enough up north for it show up here almost 24 hours after the original projected arrival time. 9/11/25.
41B is in the hole at South Haven for 3 eastbounds. This was the 2nd of the 3. With that being the case, it was time to call it a day. Although I only caught it moving at 2 spots, it was the 2 shots that were the highest on my list, so you won't see me complaining.
Pan Am’s Office Car Special is seen heading west past the signal at MP 430 on the way to Mechanicville from East Deerfield.
PAR OCS
PAR FP9-A #1
PAR FP9-A #2
The WC/AC of the mid-late 90's was a railfans dream, cool power, clean units, friendly employees and management. It was to good to last but I was blessed to live in close proximity to it all. This is train 4 rolling south near Odena with 1753, 1756 and 1750 on July 18, 1998.
A shot I did not upload previously, the RCP is at the approach for Glenwood yard, almost finished with its trip on the Paynesville Sub. This was one of my desperate attempts for sun, luckily however the clouds stayed away most of the time for the rest of the chase.
Train 3 heads north with WC 6596 and 7551 leading 13 cars near Bellevue ONT. The FP9's started to have trouble keeping up with passenger duties in the late 90's and numerous freight units started to fill in some cases.
Racing along the picturesque shoreline of Ghost Lake, a striking trio of A-B-A configured EMD FP9 locomotives lead the Royal Canadian Pacific westward into the foothills of the Rockies on a private charter bound for Banff. Later that day, I caught up with the train again at Lake Louise, where they performed a run-around move, as seen in my previous post.
Fresh from an afternoon of work at the TZPR yard in East Peoria, Keokuk Junction Railway's iconic FP9 A-B-A set takes the wye at Mapleton, IL while freshly repainted PREX (ex-CN) GP-9RM #7002 suns itself. Hiding behind the Fs was PREX (ex-ATSF) GP20u #2018.
CN train #X6518 west crosses part of the Ottawa river as it approaches Dorion. This was a weekend extra "Rapido" working to Toronto, and is an all coach formation with a cafe-bar-lounge in the centre of the consist. Power is FP9 6518 and F9B 6621.
Another Sunday CN train #75 approaches Denfield Road, west of Hyde Park, led by RS-18u 3153, RS-18 3126, F9B 6633 and FP9 6524.
On Monday the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train made the trip from Worcester, Massachusetts to Manchester, New Hampshire over Pam Am Railways trackage for the last time. The red unit has upcoming shows in Manchester, Hartford and Providence before calling it quits for good next month after 146 years. For the occasion, Pan Am came up with an all blue EMD consist including FP9 #PAR1, SD40-2 #608, SD40-2 #614, GP40-2LW #503 and FP9 #PAR2. Unfortunately the light was very tough for the eastbound part of the journey, but still worth the trip. The real circus wasn't the train, but the huge number of chasers! The train is diverging from the B&M Fitchburg Route mainline (used primarily by MBTA commuter trains) onto the B&M Stony Brook Branch (Pan Am Freight Main) at the Willows aka CPF WL.
Ayer, Massachusetts
April 17, 2017
Canadian Pacific's OCS is seen deadheading south through Westport, New York with a trio of FP9's, late and enroute to Albany from Calgary/Montreal.