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Pan Am's OCS is rolling through Monmouth enroute Rigby Yard where they will lay over a day before heading west. Behind the power is Pan Am's recently acquired sleeping named George HW Bush, I normally don't photograph passenger equipment but did this car and I'm glad I did as it has been renamed after a former Pan Am Exec, promotion/demotion you decided
A trio of F's head west out of the Twin Cities. Taken from the hwy 81 overpass along the CP Paynesville sub.
Last week a very small group of us were graciously invited to do a Staged night photo shoot at the Ontario Southland's Salford shops. Here six of OSR's main roster are lined up strutting their sexiness into the night.
CP 41B is not too far from Farnham as it passes the station sign for Brookport with CP 1401, CP 7019 & CP 1900 for power.
After KCS rebuilt the former SP Macaroni Line, they had UP rebuild the connection at the south end of the line (which is still owned by UP). Here, KCS's F9's take the business train through the 10 mph connection track to UP's Cuero Sub at Victoria. The train will then continue down UP trackage rights another 100 miles back to KCS rails at Robstown.
The track in the foreground is another rebuilt connector, which allows KCS trains to access the Victoria Industrial Lead as an alternate route to Bloomington.
BKCLR 27 (Business Train- Kansas City, MO to Laredo, TX)
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Victoria, TX
October 29th, 2022
In the namesake town on the subdivision, the covered wagons head past the elevator complex in Elbow Lake on the way back to Calgary. The Soo Line station sign is still here, about the same leveling as the train is at the elevated curve here. While the other guys chased to North Dakota, this would be my final shot. This was certainly a chase to remember!
Mid America Rail Car Leasing FP9A 6304, a former VIA unit was working the Washington & Idaho Railway for a while and is seen at Marshall, Washington on September 26, 2010.
After a quick crew change at Wilkie Saskatchewan, and with a trainmaster riding in the lead unit CP 1401 East is the A Number One train on the railway all the way to Saskatoon.
The St. Marys Railroad freight with BUGX FP9A 1752 departs the First Coast Railroad interchange in Kingsland, Ga, with a mix of storage cars and loads for Bocksboard Packaging and Georgia Pacific. The former Keokuk Junction Railway FP9A is occasionally used to haul excursions on the weekends (although currently out of service) but was filling in for the MP15DC undergoing maintenance this day. The interchange has since moved South of Kingsland into Florida to a siding called Manly.
With a friendly wave from the locomotive engineer and a handsome train in tow, Canadian Pacific train no. 40B rockets along the Belleville Subdivision at Courtice, Ontario.
Right after the sunrise, a triplet of F units powers through SOO Junction with maroon varnish in tow.
After completing their crew change downtown, Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Business train or “40B” departs Marquette, IA with the A-A-B consist of FP9As (1401/4109) and FP9B (1900). Seen here heading south on the Marquette Sub on the outskirts of town along the shores of the Mississippi River with fall color on the hillside. The train would eventually overnight in Davenport, IA’s Nahant Yard before continuing on for Kansas City, MO for the Kansas City Southern merger talks. Taken: 10-20-22
A shot I didn’t think much of at the time but after doing an edit, I’m quite happy with the results.
The Royal Canadian Pacific returns back to Calgary after making a run out to Banff, as it is seen passing through Brickburn.
Train 40B-12 crosses over the 904 feet Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge in Minneapolis.
CP 1401
CP 1900
CP 4107
CP 4106
The crew of Ontario Southland's "Woodstock Job" has had a short day and heads for home amid some fall colour just north of Salford, Ontario.
OSRX 1401 "FP9Au" nee CN 6523 FP9A
OSR also known as the rolling museum has quite a collection of EMD's and MLW's on property and proudly uses almost all of them when needed. On this Saturday only 4 units were needed and the rest sat inside the shops waiting a call out on Monday. 175 still wears Chessie paint, it looks a little rough but also nice to see still in yellow and blue.
Heber Valley Railroad's FP9ARM became a shop switcher, shuffling Denver & Rio Grande Western business car on Sept. 27. 2025.
It was built an FP9A for the Canadian National by GMD in April 1957. By Dec. 1983, it was remanufactured an 1800 HP FP9ARM for VIA Rail in CN's Pointe St-Charles shops in Montreal. On Feb. 4, 1986, it was wrecked in a deadly collision working the Super Continental passenger train in Hinton, Alberta. Miraculously, it survived the wreck with a replacement cab from a KCS F7.
This day had started in the suburbs of Detroit in the pouring rain. By the time I got to Woodstock it was wall-to-wall blue sky and OSR's Woodstock Turn was just arriving from Ingersoll.
In this view they are pulling autorack empties off of Coakley siding for the plant in Ingersoll. They will lift some other cars from the yard in Woodstock before heading for Ingersoll.
Passing the closed depot at Searchmont, Ontario is the Algoma Central "snow train" with FP9A 1755 leading two sisters and a GP7 on March 10, 1996.
KCS Northbound Office Car Special B-LRKC passes through Vandervoort, AR. on their way to Kansas City, MO. from Laredo, TX.
Another throwback to 2020 here. This was the third last "Cayuga Clipper" that OSR ran, and the last time they ran a train to Courtland, Ontario. This grain elevator shutting down operations was one of the final push factors for OSR choosing to end their operations on the Cayuga Subdivision east of St Thomas. At the time, it was assumed that this would be the last chapter for this historic line, but since then GIO Rail has started operating between Tillsonburg and St Thomas and seems to be slowly creating new business. Since this photo was taken, the elevator and silos on both sides of the tracks have been demolished leaving overgrown "mainline". This was as far as OSR went, with the few miles of track east of town being used for car storage. Also of note in late 2023, it looks like OSR 1400 will be sold to a preservation society whom will be restoring it back to its original VIA paint to commemorate VIA's 50th anniversary in the next few years. Hopefully that plan will be successful. 1400 still wears its former Rail Link paint to this day, and hasn't been used by OSR for the last couple of years to my knowledge. Looking back on some of these earlier photos of mine makes me wish I had invested in a better camera sooner. For more on the history and significance of this line read the description on this upload. www.flickr.com/photos/130272127@N07/50379142968/in/album-...
Train: OSR Tillsonburg Job "Cayuga Clipper" with OSR 1400 (FP9A) and OSR 1594 (GP9u).
CN Cayuga Subdivision
Courtland, ON
The morning after the CPKC merger, what's left of the KCS OCS changes crews at Heavener, Oklahoma for the final trip over Rich Mountain to Shreveport. The train left Kansas City hours after the merger ceremony the day before but was incrementally delayed enough for a daylight run out of Heavener the following morning. All of that after a furious 11-hour drive from Saint Paul, Minnesota to Heavener playing catchup with the train.
The Final Spike Steam Tour train is about the duck under the Trans Canada Highway as it approaches Swift Current. The Empress would get a quick service done while the pilot crews changed off at the depot in town before the train continued on towards Medicine Hat.
Kansas City Missouri, reflected in the engine room window of FP9A KCS 34.
Union Station. 14-10-2017.
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KCS Eastbound Office Car Special running via NS from Meridian, MS. to Atlanta, GA. as NS 088. KCS Officials from Kansas City & NS Officials from Atlanta, GA. had some type of meeting in Atlanta, GA. & used KCS’s Business Train equipment consisting of old passenger FP9A’s #1 & #2 & B #3.
Keokuk Junction Railway Freight Train heads for Mapleton, Illinois from La Harpe, Illinois to tie down, until the next morning. The next morning they would run from Mapleton, Illinois to Peoria, Illinois to interchange with Tazewell & Peoria Railroad, then they turned back to Mapleton, Illinois & tied down.
A nice treat on a cloudy day, I went out and chased a CP OCS across the Cities as the day slowly came to a close. Thankfully the power was in ABA format, CP F units 1401, 1900 & 4107.
KCS Northbound Office Car Special B-LRKC passes through Page, OK. on their way to tie down in Heavener, OK., until the next morning, the next morning they will complete the run to Kansas City, MO. after making a run to Laredo, TX.
The cosmetic restoration of VIA 6309 (made possible by a successful fundraising campaign) is now finished and it is seen coupled to some AMT equipment on a sunny morning. Interestingly enough, sister unit VIA 6302 was leased to the AMT in 1999 and would have been coupled to the same type of car as seen here. Soon VIA 6309 will enter the Angus Pavilion as part of the permanent collection.
This is especially for you Llanuza!
Algoma Central FP9A 1752 and friends bask in the golden sunset of a beautiful Sault St. Marie evening in August 1996. We had just returned from a private car charter round trip up to Hearst and back.
On a stormy morning in southeast Texas, a CPKC business train rolls eastward on the Freight Main of UP's Houston Sub in Houston's 1st Ward. The old SP searchlights still stand at Niles Jct, though their replacements were put up not long after this photo was taken.
CPKC so far has kept KCS's gorgeous F9's and is continuing to use them for business trains on former KCS territory. This is one such example, returning from a trip to Laredo. And although the train still consists of KCS's passenger cars, when this was taken about a third of them had been repainted into CP's Tuscan Red.
41B 09 (Business Train- Laredo, TX to Shreveport, LA)
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Houston, TX
February 10th, 2024
Catching an F working the Mead yard at Trout Lake was a fairly common sight until the SOO started retiring the wagons in mass after 1978-79. I honestly never expected to see a wagon of any kind ever work the yard at Trout Lake after that, but WC brought back some classic's with there fleet of F/FP45/FP7/9's and catching them became common working the Soo Yard-Gladstone jobs. 1751 and 6506 set a car over after stuffing Mead with empties on April 18, 1998.
After the festivities have wrapped up and under the setting sun, Canadian Pacific 40B (the Canada 150 Train) prepares to make a reverse move into Aberdeen Yard on the north end of town. CP exemplified that, even in 2017, railroads still have a magic about them.
The over night Ontario Northland - CN train #98 arrives at Toronto Union Station just after sunrise on October 2, 1976 with CN FP9A's 6533 and 6527 doing the honors.
After racing past big crowds on its way to Houston, CP 2816 pauses on the main at Fauna for a service stop. Between swarms of railfans and the CPKC steam crew surrounding the locomotive for maintenance, it was hard to get a clear shot here. This is at the end of the stop, with everything packed up and people clearing out so the The Empress can get back on its way.
After this 15-minute stop here in northeast Houston, the Final Spike Tour would continue on the Sunset Route through the Bayou City before calling it a night at CPKC's Kendleton Yard on the far opposite side of the metro area.
B40B (Final Spike Steam Tour; Calgary, AB to Mexico City, CDMX)
CP H1b 4-6-4 #2816
CP SD70ACU #7013
CP FP9A #1401
CP FP9A #4107
Houston, TX
May 25th, 2024
Arriving at Windsor (Walkerville) as train 73, VIA 6553 would make her way down to the CN's riverfront yard to be turned. Returning back to Walkerville, VIA 6553 will lead Windsor-Toronto train 78.
Another shot from Rockford earlier this month, the business train heads east with the matching set of F units on a gloomy afternoon over the Rockford trestle. This ended up being my 2nd and final shot before I had to bail, and it seems the train wouldn't make it out of the twin cities before nightfall.
The KCS OCS continues south along the Shreveport Sub near the community of Mineral in western Arkansas.
Kansas City Southern's classy looking business train is sitting at CPKC's Knoche Yard in Kansas City Missouri waiting for a crew to take it south. The train based out of Shreveport Louisiana deadheaded north for some sort of corporate event that would take the train down to Amsterdam Missouri and back to Kansas City. Once back in KC the train would sit here all day waiting for a crew to take it back south to Shreveport.
With the merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern who knows how long this train will look this way. with some cars in this train having already been repainted into a Canadian Pacific business train maroon color.
After passing big crowds in Liberty and Dayton, CP 2816 really lets loose on the long straightaway east of Crosby. The train is easily making 50 mph here on the Sunset Route east of Houston.
B40B (Final Spike Steam Tour; Calgary, AB to Mexico City, CDMX)
CP H1b 4-6-4 #2816
CP SD70ACU #7013
CP FP9A #1401
CP FP9A #4107
Crosby, TX
May 25th, 2024
Today 147 years of Ontario railroading tradition came to a close as the final train operated between St. Thomas and Tillsonburg, Ont., on the Canada Air Line. As of 1 May 2020, Operating Bulletin 518 will see this historic line Out of Service from Mile 114.55 to Mile 87.22, with Mile 80-87.22 now abandoned. While the abandonment of a railway is always a sombre occasion, leave it to the boys at the Ontario Southland Railway to go out in style.
Four of the gentlemen behind the OSR take a moment of pause with their train at Aylmer, Ont., for one last time.
The Kansas City Southern holiday express speeds south along the Red River at daybreak near the small community of Aloha, LA en route to La Place. Shoutout to Grundy for convincing me to get my ass out there!
Another view of the Keolis/MBTA light power move with the display equipment for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ MBTA 1074 and 3248 bracket PAR1 seen here the MBTA Worcester mainline (the ex Boston and Albany) as they roll thru the Plantation Street rock cut in some light drizzly gloom. They are on Main 2 in this going away view looking west down off the bridge that spans the three tracks in the deep cut.
PAR1 is a GMDD FP9A blt. Sep. 1954 as CN 6505 and passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 along with sister unit 6515 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains the pair would become PAR 1 and 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
Leading the odd move is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988 and bringing up the rear is 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022