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CP 4107 rounds the curve at Maple Lake. The RCP was in the Twin Cities for the 2016 Ryder Cup Golf Tournament at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, MN. A big tip of the hat goes to Andy C. for not only clearing some brush but also asking the property owner for permission to stand up on the hill in his field.
Canadian Pacific SD70ACU No 7010 rides the turntable in St. Paul, Minnesota, as FP9A No. 4106 looks on.
The locomotive had just arrived from rebuild and would make its first revenue trip a few days later.
Kansas City Southern classic set of Southern Belle A-B-A set of FP9As and one FP9B are in charge of their company business train running as a BKCSH, as they charge southbound across the rural farmland of Western Arkansas on the KCS Shreveport Sub. Seen here passing a local farm in the small town of Hatton, AR, disturbing a pair of Cow’s peaceful afternoon graze near this nicely placed pond on their deadhead trip back to home base of Shreveport, LA. Taken: 3-20-22
At the break of dawn, CP 40B sits at the depot in Schreiber as the inbound and outbound crews brief with each other before the train continues its journey west.
October 2021
Train: CP 40B with CP 1401 (FP9A), CP 7019 (SD70ACu), and CP 1900 (FP9B).
CP Heron Bay Subdivision/Nipigon Subdivision
Schreiber, ON
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On its deadhead run for Kansas City, train BSHKC-17 snakes through the S curve northbound along the Big Creek just outside of Page, OK while easing down the famous “Rich Mountain” with the A-B-A set of Kansas City Southern FP9As (KCS 2 and KCS 1) on the KCS Shreveport Sub. It’s the beginning of spring so the mountain wasn’t yet “colorful” with all the dead trees but this was just day 1 that ended up beginning at Mooringsport, LA for a 1500 mile total chase over a span of 3 days. Taken: 3-17-22
Now outside of downtown Kansas City, the Kansas City Southern OCS or BKCKC heads south for its round trip dinner train from KC to Amsterdam, MO. Seen here with the A-B-A set of F units, as the engineer puts the KCS 1 in run 8 for the trip upgrade while crossing the 94 year old Stone Arch bridge over the Blue Parkway on the KCS Pittsburg Sub. Taken: 3-19-22
The Southern Belle races past the depot in Higginsville, Missouri along the Mexico Sub.
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Looking back on this day in 2021 following the CP OCS I'm really glad I didn't fly home to Connecticut for the weekend as I had originally planned. The chase across Minnesota ended up being an experience of a lifetime and I met some great friends along the way. Seen here is Canada Pacific train 41B on its way back to Canada approaching 210th Ave outside of Barret, MN on the CP Elbow Lake Sub. This without a doubt is the best looking train in North America at present and it was an absolute pleasure spending a day photographing it.
Under code blue skies on a gorgeous afternoon in rural western Missouri, the Kansas City Southern OCS or BKCKC, is in the midst of its southbound dinner train bound for Amsterdam, MO before turning back north for Kansas City. Seen here on the outskirts of the small town of Drexel, MO, skirting across the local “Lisle Pond” with the A-B-A set of FP9As on the KCS Pittsburg Sub. Taken: 3-19-22
The day prior, lots of tree trimming had to be done along the shore to make this shot possible. Some measures are really takin into consideration for the term “anything for the shot”
Tuscan & Grey -- the way it oughta be! With a successful tour of St. John, New Brunswick and the former Central Maine & Quebec behind her, Canadian Pacific train no. 41B takes in the autumnal splendour at Parry Sound, Ont., as she presses on the westward odyssey to Calgary on October 8, 2021.
The Kansas City Southern business train has just left Meridian, MS and catches the first rays of the day as they begin their trip to Atlanta, GA running as NS train #088.
KCS Business Train led by FP9A 1 and F9B 2 with FP9A 3 passing vandalized Tower 1 @ St. Louis, Mo.
Kodachrome my collection, photographer unknown.
KCS customer's special near Blackburn, Missouri headed east toward Jacksonville, Illinois.
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41B is on its way west to Jackman on its tour of the Northeast behind CP 1401. Little Greenwood is almost completely calm giving a very nice reflection.
Five years ago we find the KJRY F units between Canton and Cuba, IL. Soon they will be switching out stored cars from the Cuba siding while the overcast skies would break up, making for a pursuit that just got better and better.
2-21-2017
The morning fog is still lingering around the Tombigbee River in western Alabama as Kansas City Southern Railways office car train steps over a flood area along Norfolk Southern's AGS South District on a special trip between Meridian, MS to Atlanta, GA.
After crossing the resort town of Bromont, CP's sharp-looking business train charges west through Adamsville on its way to St. Luc yard from Jackman, ME.
PAR #1 and #2 lead the Pan Am OCS past the 1895 Maine Central freight house in Monmouth, Maine on the former MEC Back Road.
At the wonderful Spadina Ave. roundhouse in Toronto finding freshly shopped CN FP9A 6532 being turned as the shop crew closes up the front steam line access doors - June 22, 1975.
I just realized that I could put Good Time Industries in the Fallen Flags Group.. Trailing the units is the CSX Business car that Pan Am bought. In it's shorttime of the property I think had 2 maybe 3 names.
The Pan Am Fs lead the OCS across the Androscoggin River as seen from the Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston, Maine which includes an Army Willys CJ-5 and a tribute to the U.S.S. Maine (including a ten-inch shell salvaged from the wreck in Havana).
Several people I follow posted really good shots of the CP 150 train heading back west at Palgrave, ON. One even remarked how it might have looked similar 60 years ago. Well this one is only 39 years ago, and the F's are in the MultiMark or Pacman scheme, and the foliage hasn't yet filled in making it an even better place to catch the Canadian on the early fall afternoon of September 4, 1978. Back to back FP9A's leading the westbound Toronto section of the Canadian.
Having just left Windsor a late running VIA #76 blasts through Tecumseh, Ontario behind FP9A 6610 on February 12, 1988
The overnight VIA train #98 the "Northland" from Cochrane, Ontario meets sun light passing underneath the CPR mainline in the Don Valley of northern Toronto with FP9A 6540 leading the way - September 24, 1978.
KCS FP9A 1 leads the business train eastbound at Blackburn, Mo. on the Mexico Sub enroute to Jacksonville, Ill.
VIA train #71 arrives in Walkerville (Windsor) Ontario behind FP9A 6529 with a consist of tempo passenger cars, the HEP equipped baggage car provides the electrical power for the train - April 25, 1983.
This chase was the gamble that paid off! The forecast originally calling for a rainy day and with the early morning departure from Saint Paul the light would have been poor for the chase west anyway. But since I'm already in Minnesota for a few months, I figured it was worth going out anyway since we don't get the opportunity to shoot the CP OCS very often back east. Since the train was a deadhead move it was a low priority. This worked out in my favor as it ended up taking the siding quite a few times for revenue trains. This gave time for the light to swing around and the sun to come out. By sunset I was in North Dakota and very happy with the results!
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Canadian Pacific's Officers Special rolls through the small town of Dresbach, MN on a beautiful fall morning. The combination of fall colors, morning light, and the classy train all made for a wonderful scene. Video will be up shortly!
BUGX 1752, a former Keokuk Junction Railway FP9A and likely the only F unit hauling freight in the US this day, leads a freight from Kingsland toward St Marys, Georgia on the St Marys Railroad. The unit is occasionally used to haul excursions on the weekends but was filling in this day for the MP15DC undergoing maintenance. The St. Marys Railroad currently has four customers (in addition to many storage and car cleaning clients): Georgia Pacific, Bocks Board Packaging, Synergy, and the Kings Bay Naval Base.
Dan Kwarciany recently uploaded one of his shots from the 2016 visit of the CP Fs to the Twin Cities, and jogged my memory that this was in the archives.
I've got quite a few years left in me, lord willing, but I'm fairly confident this will go down as a top ten lifetime chase - had a gorgeous train in great light, was covering new territory (I believe this is the only time I've chased anything west of the metro on CP), and got to chase it all the way to North Dakota - couldn't have asked for anything more.
VIA Rail train #77 is approaching it's destination of Windsor, Ontario in primo evening light with FP9A 6519 leading the way with a "VIA" nose lettering on May 11, 1982.
In 2017 the Keokuk Junction F units are approaching Bushnell as the clouds break up. Arrival in La Harpe would not be until after sunset.
Yesterdays announcement and ruling from the STB yesterday is one that was expected but not really wanted for most. Soon two long lasting and classic railroads will merge as one, under an unimaginative nor creative name. In Better times back in December the 2022 Santa Express is in Higginsville MO on a beautiful evening. The classic F's look great on the head end of the train and everyone wonders this merger will mean for the railroads moving forward.
The "Canton Cannonball" approaches the diamond with the former Burlington at Bushnell, operating westward on the former Toledo, Peoria & Western mainline. Leading the way are two former Algoma Central Railway FP9A units purchased by Pioneer Lines in the mid-2000s. With a recent change in ownership, these units will now be sidelined and put up for sale, ending over a decade of service on the former TP&W. This was part of a memorable week-long trip to the Midwest in the middle of the never-ending Winter of 2014-15. We had intentions of going to warmer climes, but the weather forced us to go to Plan C. I sure am glad it did! Special thanks to Pete Ruesch for showing us around this day, as well as getting us South Shore Freight action, along with John Means, the day before and later showing us around the Indiana Railroad with Chris Thompson.
Kansas City Southern FP9(A) #1 leads NS #089 out of the siding at Villa Rica after meeting Amtrak #20. KCS and NS execs rode from Meridian, MS to Atlanta, GA that morning then the train deadheaded back west to home rails.
GBSOA heads east at Kinross with 1752, 1754, 1756 and 1751 leading 40 cars on July 28, 1998. On this day WC came up short of power at Steelton and the old Fs were all that was available to get train SOGBA started on its trip toward Gladstone. When SOGBA met eastbound GBSOA at Rudyard power was swapped and the F's headed back to Steelton. Total clouds on this day, not one peak of sun broke out but FP9 leaders in freight service were rare so I was out doing what I could to get some shots.
CP SD70ACu 7019 leads train 41B-03 across Squaw Brook in Big Moose Township, ME on 10/3/2021. After shooting at Tarratine, the train had a few slow orders, so I took the opportunity to hike out to Squaw Brook. I didn't anticipate the hike to be a long one, since I saw a crossing that was close by on Google Earth. That plan quickly fell apart, since the landowner (or someone doing work at the property) didn't want me driving to the crossing, but they said it was fine as long as I walked in. Which ended up being a lot further than I expected, and as a result, I ended up missing the shot at Onawa which I had been looking forward to. But regardless, I was happy with how this shot came out.
Train: CP 41B-3
10/3/2021
Squaw Brook
Big Moose TWP, ME
While the few left chasing shot the Maquoketa River bridge behind me it was less than stellar due to large gardrails and handrails blocking a lot of the frame down, I chose this shot across the field just to the east with the train crossing a bridge with the sole purpose of passing over a very small pond.
If you're not familiar with Buc-ee's, I'm sorry. The Texas-sized gas station & convenience store chain has a devoted following for their incredible food, merchandise, and billboards.
In a scene you can only find in southeast Texas, KCS's business train races past a billboard advertising the fudge counter at the Buc-ee's store in Wharton.
BKCLR 27 (Business Train- Kansas City, MO to Laredo, TX)
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Louise, TX
October 29th, 2022
The Royal Canadian is just miles away from Jackman as its skirts along Long Pond.
A big thanks to Grundy who convinced me to ride along with him and pal around for the day. A lot of fun was had with the guys before I ended up heading south with Zach.
21B cruising through Canmore as they start to close in on their destination of Banff for an overnight layover.
Wasting no time getting up to track speed, KCS's beautifully painted F-Units sprint across the San Bernard River just south of Kendleton on the Rosenberg Sub. It's been almost 15 years since KCS rebuilt the former SP Macaroni Line, but the track structure still looks immaculate.
BKCLR 27 (Business Train- Kansas City, MO to Laredo, TX)
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Kendleton, TX
October 29th, 2022
21B from Calgary for Banff running alongside the Bow River in Exshaw. Still can't believe this ran while I was in Banff for vacation! Getting to shoot this trainset in the Rockies is something I didn't ever expect to actually be able to do.
These guys weren't calling signals on the radio as they should've been, ATCS was not loading either. I knew they were past Polo but had no idea what main they would use, Main 1 splits off and runs far west of here. I was about to give up, assuming they took Main 1, also a massive cloud bank was quickly moving right towards the sun. However, to my surprise, they finally showed up not a minute too soon here into downtown Lawson. This line is quite the tree tunnel, and finding any decent shots is nearly impossible.
Thanks to my fellow foamer friends who helped out.
40B 20
Lawson, MO
October 21, 2022 4:23PM
The Royal Canadian Pacific trainset heading West for Banff from Calgary on the Laggan Sub. This occurred on Day 3 of my vacation to the Canadian Rockies to Banff & Jasper Parks with my wife. Talk about timing and luck.
This was a private charter that was purchased for a two-day trip to the Rockies. Day one they ran from Calgary to Banff. Day two they ran from Banff-Field-Calgary. This caused some adjustments to our hiking plans.