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Covered wagons and a wooden elevator, doesn't get much better than that. The train heads through the tiny town of Farwell, population 51.
A CP extra job is in the process of wyeing CP's business train, which arrived into Kansas City yesterday evening following an inspection trip. They set out the FP9B at the former pig ramp, and they're currently strung out through West Wye-Air Line JCT while waiting for signals to begin turning the train around at Southwest JCT.
In a couple of days, the two FP9's and a portion of the consist will be moved to Union Station for display. 10/22/22.
After departing Blandinsville, there would be time for one more crossing intercept, at County Highway 24/E. 50th St., the very last grade crossing before La Harpe. Because of the slow crawl out of Blandinsville, we were able to beat the F's here, but only barely. The train was already rumbling around the curve here by the time we made it to the crossing. I likely ruined some poor kid's video when I hollered back to my compatriots to hurry. Such are the things you do in the moment, I guess. If that kid happens to see this, my apologies.
F units are seen crossing the Crow River in Rockford, Minn. 44 years apart. On the left is is Soo Line local No. 81 with a single F7A crossing the bridge on Feb. 20, 1978, and on the right is CP Business Train 41B on Oct. 28, 2022 with FP9 1401 leading.
The past few years in early December Pan Am usually operates their OCS equipment going out for the best part of a week. 2018 by far was my best trip, having chased them from Waterville to Portland with my friend Thomas and later in the week matching up with GSP to do the West End coming and going. As info the double track project was just recently completed.
Cloud cover was about 90-95% the day this consist was running but I followed him west and tried to put the train and the sun in the same place at the same time at numerous locations. I was finally rewarded a couple miles east of Engadine at a kind of grown in location that used to be a log load out called Connors Spur. The switch and most of the short spur angling away from the main was removed in the 70's but at least it hadn't grown in to the point that the power was shadowed on this shot. 1752 and 6650 thunder upgrade with SOGBA toward Engadine on November 6, 1997. A rescan.
VIA train #69, 'Rapido', bound for Toronto, rounds the curve at the west end of Ile Perrot, just before crossing the Ottawa River. It is led by VIA-CN liveried PF9 6516, CN-liveried FPB-4 6871 and VIA-liveried FP9 6526.
Initially VIA was the name given to CN's passenger services, starting in 1976. At the beginning of 1977 VIA became a separate crown corporation. A few locomotives and cars got the VIA-CN branding.
Canadian Pacific's business train, operating as 40B, rolls through Shepard, AB as it leave Calgary on May 16, 2021.
Om 19:30 uur passeert NOHAB My 1131 van Altmark Rail met een korte infratrein langs Ratingen-Lintorf. Bouwjaar: 1957. Eerste spoorwegmaatschappij: DSB (1957 - 1997). Vervolgens bij diverse ondernemingen dienst gedaan waaronder STRABAG en Erfurter Bahnservice (EBS).
Deutsch: um 19:30 uhr fährt NOHAB My 1131 von Altmark Rail mit einem kurzen Bauzug an Ratingen-Lintorf vorbei. Baujahr: 1957. Erstes EBU: DSB (1957 - 1997). Danach noch bei verschiedenen EVU tätig gewesen wie STRABAG und die Erfurter Bahnservice (EBS).
In the spirit of Thanksgiving I'm thankful I ever managed to chase and shoot(and in one case spend a few miles at the throttle) the trains I'm going to post today. I already have posted previous views of all of them but I feel like there well worth coming back to. AC 1751, 1750, 1756 and 1755 work north at Wabos with an XALO-10 on February 15, 1996. Earlier I'd posted a longer lens view of this train that Sonya took from a location slightly further south.
Getting an FP9 leader on freight was always a tough catch as they rarely led. I'd go to extreme lengths to shoot one often following for up to a 100 miles trying to get some semblance of sun on the train. Days like this were particularly frustrating as it was just wall to wall clouds and nothing could be done. WC train ESSOA rolls along near Dafter with 1753, 1755 and 6626 leading 52 cars on May 16, 1997.
After the passengers visited Fort Steele, Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train head east toward Crowsnest Pass at Wardner, British Columbia, on September 14, 2002. The classy train of mostly heavyweight business cars is powered by 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.
That's right, I got more photos of this train, however from different years. Last year, the RCP made it's first trip to the US in over a year and a half by that point, and was seen here approaching Glenwood. Rumor was the train was going to head all the way to KC to have meetings with KCS officials, but when the merger came in jeopardy from CN, the train turned back west at St. Paul, which was this run. This year of course, in 2022, that did not happen, as they made it all the way down this time around.
After chasing the CP business train down to Kansas City today, I ran over to Knoche to see what was going on, and was pleased to see a crew getting on board the KCS 1. They had gotten onboard to combine the two business trains into one for the upcoming southbound trip.
The recent rains created a nice, impromptu reflecting pond as the crew doubled onto its train. I was surprised that I was the only railfan out here, but I'm thrilled to have stumbled upon it, as the future of this set is certainly in the balance. In addition, much thanks go out to the cordiality of the crew and other employees around at the time. However, I wouldn't test this yourself.
The beautiful FP9's and F9B with the Royal Canadian Pacific equipment make their way up to Olive Street on the North Main at the west end of the Joint Agency Knoche Yard with KCS running as CP Train 40B-26.
The train is in town for an inspection trip, display, promotional photos, and meetings leading up to the CPKC merger with Kansas City Southern. They are making their way back over from KC Union Station where they've been the past couple days with an abbreviated consist. They'll pick up the remaining passenger cars and the F9B unit before heading northward to Canada tonight.
Locomotives: CP 1401, CP 4106
10-26-22
Kansas City, MO
The westbound Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train drops downgrade between the Spiral Tunnels on Kicking Horse Pass at Yoho, British Columbia, on September 20, 2002. Powering the train is CP FP7 No. 1400, FP9 No. 1401, and GP38-2 No. 3084.
The Kansas City Southern Business train is passing by one of the many soybean fields in extreme Southwest Missouri on its southbound run from Kansas City back to it's home base of Shreveport Louisiana. Running as CPKC train D40B-13 the classy looking train with it's Southern Belle painted EMD FP9s leading the way is southbound on CPKC's Pittsburg Subdivision at Burgess Missouri. The combination of the golden color of the soybeans nearing the time of harvest mixed with the color from the Southern Belle FP9s was a nice combination and one I hoped I could capture at some point on the chase this particular day.
Pan Am's Office Car Special rounds the curve just outside of the MBTA Wachusett Station on the Fitchburg/Westminster town line. PAR 1 and PAR 2 are leading the train east on Pan Am's D3 Mainline.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
CN FP9 6528 and F9B 6630 lead Toronto - Sarnia train #659 round the curve just east of Denfield Road, between Hyde Park and Komoka.
scanned from a Kodachrome slide
The late October sun is racing for the horizon, as Keokuk Junction Railway's classic set of F's depart Bushnell Illinois eastbound, by the westbound distant signal that protects the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad. As soon as the greens are back on the trees, this is a must visit railroad again.
KJRY 1750, 1761, 1752
Bushnell, IL
Autumn 2011
PAR 1, a former CN FP9, leads the Pan Am Office Car train east passing through Orange, MA on a beautiful October day. The rumors of the Pan Am sale were just hearsay at this point but this ended up being one of the best chases of the OCS in 2020. Many other fans were also out enjoying the classic F units running through the fall foliage, it doesn't get much better than that!
Since many of us had never been to La Harpe before, a bunch of us went poking around town to see what we could find. We started with the other end of the Keokuk Junction, from the yard in La Harpe towards Keokuk. But it didn't take long for the action to pick back up again. While checking trying to see what looked like a possible steam-era water tower on satellite maps inside the wye at La Harpe, a cut of cars was being reversed into the KJRY yard. It was the La Harpe-Keokuk job, led by former Santa Fe GP-20 2032, building his train. He was backing into the yard to grab a handful of cars that had just arrived with the F's. And while we were all preoccupied with the the sign-off of the F's, the La Harpe yard job had already switched out those cars and had them ready for the run to Keokuk.
One of the many nice aspects of train watching in Brockville in the 1980s was the all-access storage track behind the station, where power from the Ottawa train would layover for the next train from Toronto. Here on 2 May 1982 we get a good look at VIA No. 6542, the highest-numbered ex-CN FP9 on the roster.
The Pan Am OCS crosses into the town of Shelburne Falls from Buckland, MA with PAR 1 leading the train east. This was another shot from an excellent day fall day on the West End.
On it's first trip out to Canada's West Coast, newly restored FP9 #4106 leads the Royal Canadian Pacific home to Calgary, AB, as the train travels east on the Cascade Sub through the Yale Tunnels near Yale, BC.
CN Rapido #62 arrives at Guildwood station in eastern Toronto, Ontario in morning fog on October 2, 1976 behind a pair of FP9's.
KCS B-KCLR has just stopped in the small town of Ashdown, Arkansas, to let a few people off, and is now floating along at 60mph leaving town. The combined KCS and CP business train was in the middle of a multi-day run to show chief executives of Kansas City Southern and Canadian Pacific Railroads the main line from Kansas City, Mo, to the border crossing with KCSM at Laredo, TX. David Perkins and I followed the train from Heavaner, Oklahoma, to Sugar Land, Texas over two days this past week. On the way north we saw this stretch of track and David suggested pacing may be a good idea through here. He was right... We both ended up with some great shots of the business train as they left town, and quickly got back up to track speed. Thanks again to David for taking us up. This was one for the books with the beautiful KCS business train down the line.
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The Royal Canadian Pacific heads west on CN rails east of Lytton, B.C. on Sept. 5, 2010. The "tunnels" help keep rock slides off the tracks and look like they are doing a good job!
One year ago today, was a fun day along the CP River & Davenport Sub. The OCS made a trip from Hastings, MN to Davenport. Myself and two buddies chased it down from Minnesota all the way to Davenport amongst many others. It was a great time.
PAR 1 is framed between poles and the old west end tower as the Pan Am OCS readies it's next move at East Deerfield yard.
Repainted and moved into the Angus Pavilion in 2019, VIA 6309 was recently moved to another side of the pavilion, allowing this overhead view. It was originally CN 6528.
PAR 1 and PAR 2 (ex-CN FP9s) leads Pan Am Railway's Office Car Special into the East Deerfield Yard in Deerfield, MA. The train is coming from Mechanicville, NY and going east.
Dating back to the creation of Guilford in the early 80’s up to the current Pan Am Railways branding, the railroad has traditionally made a fall business train trip. For many years the train would traverse the entire freight main from Mattawamkeag, Maine to Mechanicville, New York. In recent years the train rarely operates east of Waterville, Maine. In the beginning power was a pair of MEC GP7’s which evolved into a pair of D&H GP39-2’s, next was a pair of ex CR GP40’s, followed by a pair of ex CN GP40-2W’s until the acquisition of the current power, a pair of ex CN FP9’s. Recently a stainless steel, Budd built, ex Wabash dome car has been added to the train consist. On Monday afternoon, the train was nearing the end of the first leg of the trip west as it passed the switch to “Yard 8 East” in Portland, next stop Rigby Yard in South Portland where the train will spend the night.
Portland, Maine
October 10, 2016
On a perfect fall afternoon, the Royal Canadian Pacific travels east alongside the Bow River through Exshaw, Alberta. The small train just happened to run a day trip from Calgary, Alberta to Banff, Alberta and return when I was in the area. Sometimes... You get lucky.
Pan Am's OCS, now with four cars, is seen patiently basking in the sun at the Lowell Station in Lowell, Massachusetts, awaiting its passengers to head east. The newest addition to the train, former CSX sleeper "Mississippi", is immediately behind the power, followed by ST 102 "Bluebird", and ST 101, and ST 100. After departing the station, it'll be a leisurely cruise east to Portland, Maine for the train, where they would tie down for the night.