View allAll Photos Tagged fp9a
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
KCS's Holiday Express was created in 2001 by employees who refurbished a number of railcars into holiday exhibits that could tour the KCS system every November and December. Along with allowing members of the public to come see and tour the train, KCS would make donations to the Salvation Army in every city & town the train stopped in.
After the CPKC merger, there was some concern over the train's fate since CP already had their own Holiday Train and equipment. But for the first two Christmases since the merger, while CP's Holiday Train toured the northern part of the system the former KCS F9's and passenger cars continued to run the Holiday Express on the former KCS lines. Unfortunately, the Holiday Express was retired after 2024 and CP's Holiday Train would tour former KCS rails in 2025.
Here the last run of the Holiday Express sits in Port Arthur, the Gulf Coast Port that Arthur Stillwell founded as the end of his original dream for what became Kansas City Southern. The display cars, tours, and Santa are at the end of the train by the depot in the distance. The original KCS depot in Port Arthur was razed in 1969, but was beautifully recreated in the 2000s.
CPKC Holiday Express
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Port Arthur, TX
December 12th, 2024
Just a low angle portrait of a decidedly out of place locomotive!
Pan Am Railways OCS locomotive PAR1 is on display in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/
The GMDD FP9A was 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.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022
Its been a long day running across western Louisiana and southeast Texas, but CP 2816's day isn't done just yet. The train has entered one of its bigger gauntlets: the Houston Terminal.
The Final Spike Tour is approaching the junction at Tower 87 alongside UP's massive Englewood Yard in northeast Houston. With a hump job on one side, and a line of pace cars on the other, the Empress will be navigating a number of tight interlockings and junctions as the train works its way past Englewood and through 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
Houston, TX
May 25th, 2024
KCS Business Train led by FP9A 1 and F9B 2 with FP9A 3 @ St Louis, Mo.
Kodachrome my collection, photographer unknown. (Dec 2003)
CPKC's Royal Canadian Pacific southbound on the Pittsburg Subdivision between Kansas City and Joplin, Missouri.
Under clouds that mask the skyline of Downtown Houston, a CPKC business train rolls northward on the West Belt in the Near Northside. And it's a busy day on the West Belt. As the biz train passes Tower 210 here at Collingsworth St, two freights roll south of the other mains.
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
VIA FP9A-6530 (ex CN 6530, blt 5/57) is W/B passing under the Plains Road West overpass in the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Running as symbol BKCSH, the KCS OCS completes its descent from Rich Mountain as it rolls into Mena, Arkasas behind the three Fs.
After appearing in Laredo for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Ottensmeyer Bridge (the new international bridge over the Rio Grande into Mexico), KCS 1 and the Southern Belle business train are now hightailing it eastward. The train is headed to Shreveport this evening to pick up supplies, then will make a quick turn-around and roll through the night down to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
Here, the former KCS F9 trio rolls down Winter St in Houston's First Ward. This is on UP's Houston Sub, part of the 120 or so miles of trackage rights CPKC trains use between Rosenberg and Beaumont, TX. At Beaumont, the biz train will return to CPKC rails and head north for Shreveport.
D 41B 07 (Business Train- Laredo, TX to New Orleans, LA)
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Houston, TX
February 7th, 2025
Ten years ago on November 9, 2009, Keokuk Junction FP9A 1752 leads the bi-weekly westbound past the site where the Mareitta Illinois depot was once located. The F units are now history on this line and are for sale. Copyright © Revenge Photography. All Rights Reserved.
KCS Westbound Holiday Express passes through Control Point 68 in Monroe, LA. coming out of Magenta Siding to head for downtown Monroe, LA. for a Christmas get together that evening.
After departing CPKC's Deramus Yard a half hour before, The Empress rolls southward through Cedar Grove on the south side of Shreveport.
The train is slowing to a stop though as the crew would have issues getting the automatic interlocking with UP's Reisor Sub to clear, resulting in the first of many delays on this warm and humid Saturday.
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
Shreveport, LA
May 25th, 2024
The Pan Am OCS heads back to Waterville on 9/23/2021 (The Flickr date is wrong). To my knowledge, this is the second to last trip the F units made due to the MBTA PTC requirement. Following this, C40-8 7542 would be used for the mainstay of the OCS trips while the F's were pulled out one last time in the final days of the railroad.
The switch ties under the first passenger car, are all that remain of a long since removed siding for Hammond Lumber which still operates a sawmill out of frame.
Pan Am Railways
Train: OCS PAR 1 East
9/23/2021
Belgrade, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line
The CPKC Office Car Special/Business Train passes through Naheola, AL. crossing the Naheola Bridge over the Tombigbee River eventually headed back to Calgary, Alberta, Canada after making a run to CSXT in Montgomery, AL,
(SEE & HEAR)---AC, Algoma Central Railway FP9's 1756-1750-1754-1755, with the southbound Agawa Canyon Tour train passing mp21, near Northland, Ontario. September 17, 1997. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
See this live in my Youtube link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo47fjGq4z8
fb, 7/23/2023
tp, rpn. rpa
After passing big crowds in Dayton proper, CP 2816 is opening it up on the freshly manicured straightaway that stretches 15 miles to Crosby (UP double-tracked here in 2022). The train is easily making 50 mph here on the Sunset Route east of Houston.
At the left is milepost 330, measured from SP's former ferry terminal at Algiers, LA, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
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
Dayton, TX
May 25th, 2024
I'll leave it to the viewer to decide which is which, but The Empress parked next to the Southern Belle is quite the juxtaposition in beauty and elegance.
After spending the afternoon at the Shreveport public display, CP 2816 and the consist of the Final Spike Tour have been parked for the night at CPKC's Deramus Yard. The train is situated here in the "Belle House", home of the former KCS's business cars and Retrobelle F9's. This placement could not have been much better to document a transitional era for Deramus Yard and the KCS.
Photo taken on railroad property with permission.
CP H1b 4-6-4 #2816
KCS FP9A #2
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #1
Shreveport, LA
May 24th, 2024
The restored A-B-A set of KCS F-units leads an Office Car Special off the Swing Bridge (dated 1898 on the cross member) which takes the KCS tracks over the Mississippi River and back into the state of Missouri.
-KCS FP9A #2, F9B #3, FP9A #1 leading power
-KCS Train B-ESKC-26
-KCS (ex-GWWR/CM&W/ICG/GM&O/etc) Roodhouse Sub
-Mississippi River
-Highway 79 crossing, Louisiana, MO
-August 26, 2018
TT1_1501_edited-1
Hard to discern all three, but OSR's trio of F's have racks on the move just leaving Woodstock, Ontario.
OSRX 1401 FP9Au nee CN 6523 FP9A
OSRX 6508 FP9Au nee CN 6508 FP9A
OSRX 1400 FP9Au nee CN 6539 FP9A
Possible one of the most known and most shot locations when chasing the OSR is on the CP in Woodstock where the tracks cross over the Thames River. Here OSR 1400 and 1401 lead a cut of empty racks over the Thames river after swtting out loads at Conklin and picking up these empties for Cami.
West Coast Railways FP7A 4069 has just spotted up the final train for the night under a relentless snow fall.
ILSX 6504, GMD FP9A, ex CN VIA 6504, became KCS 2
ILSX 6616, GMD F9B, ex CN VIA 6616
Via 6504 became KCS 2
www.flickr.com/photos/diesel-doctor/54804186680/in/photos...
Dropping downhill just south of Searchmont is train 3 with AC 1753 and 1750 heading for the canyon on July 5, 1997. The siding here was call Goulais if I remember right. I don't think it was used in WC days and was removed fairly soon after this shot, at least the switches were pulled.
I thought I would scan one image before I go to bed tonight so I grabbed one of my Dad's boxes and randomly pulled this one. It's a mystery though as neither his nor my grandfather's name is on it. It is one of a few slides obviously taken the same morning so it was likely taken by one of them, but I cannot be sure.
A pair of CP FP9A's is arriving at Galt, Ontario with what is likely No.21. Lake Erie and Northern 975 is standing by for connections headed south between Galt and Port Dover. Pretty classic scene really. The consensus seems to put this about 1954.
The OSR Tillsonburg Job (aka Cayuga Clipper) works Future Transfer for the last time on the Cayuga Subdivision. Of interest, on the right is a now defunct approach signal for the diamond between the Cayuga Sub and CP's Port Burwell Spur (also leased to OSR now). The diamond was removed long ago, but the signals remain turned. Future Transfer moved all of their operations to a different location in Tillsonburg that is accessed from the Port Burwell Spur. This is one of the many reasons why the Cayuga Subdivision is now defunct. It's hard to believe that 50 years ago CN and Wabash/N&W cab units plied these same rails. For more info on the Cayuga Sub and OSR's operations read the description on this photo www.flickr.com/photos/130272127@N07/50379142968/in/datepo...
Train: OSR Tillsonburg Job with OSR 1401 (FP9A) and OSR 6508 (FP9A).
CN Cayuga Subdivision
Tillsonburg, ON
The two F units plus their plow pull into Tillsonburg, ahead of the switch for the lead into Future Transfer co.
The KCS OCS takes the curve at Wickes, Arkansas meeting a northbound CTXKC in the siding. By midday, the train will arrive in Shreveport where it has remained ever since.
KCS Westbound Holiday Express passes through Vicksburg, MS getting ready to shove their train along Levee Street for a Christmas get together that evening to collect for Toys for Tots for the less privileged children & to let the kids visit with Santa Clause
The CPKC Office Car Special/Business Train passes through Control Point East Jackson in Pearl, MS. as they enter High Oak Yard, CPKC’s Yard in Jackson, MS. where they will lay over until the next morning to continue their run to Shreveport, LA. & eventually back to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
:
For the first time in three months and 2 days the F's come out to sun themselves on the Saint Thomas job before going back into hiding.
With rail and signal seemingly blending into the weed-ridden landscape, a pair of Ontario Southland FP9A's trundle away from Courtland, Ont., with the sole remaining car east of Tillsonburg, an empty centre-beam from Townsend Lumber, for one last time on February 24, 2020. By this time next week, the final train on the Cayuga Spur, a remnant of the 'Canada Air Line', will have run and the process of abandonment will follow.
Ontario Southland's gorgeous pair of company-painted F's are paired up for today's run to St.Thomas, seen here about to pass under Highway 401 at Putnam, Ontario
OSRX 1401 FP9Au nee CN 6523 FP9A
OSRX 6508 FP9Au nee CN 6508 FP9A
KCS Northbound Office Car Special B-LRKC passes through Gentry, AR. on their way to Kansas City, MO. from Laredo, TX.
On a pleasant spring day in April 2016 OSR 1401 and 1400 return from the Canadian Pacific interchange in Woodstock with a string of empty autoracks to be loaded at the CAMI plant in Ingersoll. At this point both locomotives are still wearing their Railink paint with faint reminder of a RailAmerica logo on the nose of 1401.
In this view from the Trans-Canada Highway, looking across the Kicking Horse River, CP Rail SD40-2-6021 is on the point of VIA's W/B #1, the Canadian. VIA FP9A-6506 & F9B-6632 are trailing.
CPKC's Final Spike Tour was to be one of the hottest trains on the railroad over its weeks-long run to Mexico City (and CEO Keith Creel was on board). But it seems a UP dispatcher had other plans on this sweltering afternoon in southeast Texas.
With every other siding between Houston and Beaumont plugged with trains (not unusual), and knowledge that CP 2816 would need to stop for an extended period of time outside Houston for servicing, the dispatcher elected to run the westbound Sunset Limited around the steam special at Ames, almost halfway to Houston.
It should be noted that the original schedule for the day put 2816's trip across the Sunset Route nearly 3 hours ahead of Amtrak's. But due to PTC and small mechanical issues in Louisiana, the Final Spike train left Beaumont only 30 minutes ahead of Amtrak Train #1.
AMT1 25 (Westbound Sunset Limited)
AMTK P42DC #168
AMTK P40DC #824
AMTK P42DC #194
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
Liberty, TX
May 25th, 2024