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A former Canadian Pacific FP9A wearing the colors of the Pennsylvania Railroad was rolling a Wine Train through the wilds of Pennsylvania on a former Erie branch.
It may not be 100% accurate, especially with a Hancock Air Whistle, but it still looks fantastic.
This is what it truly is all about, the comradery and respect between generations of CP employees, both who have a strong respect for the history of the CPR!
The OSR in downtown Ingersoll is the epitome of small-town railroading in Ontario. This a scene that I have tried to capture on multiple occasions but one that has always proved to be a bit challenging. However, this morning all of the elements came together. Under stormy skies, OSR 1400 (an ex-CN FP9A) is seen creeping across Thames Street with sister unit 1401. Thanks to convenient sucker-hole, my envisioned scene had come to life.
Soon after departing CPKC's yard at Kendleton, TX, CP 2816 rolls into Beasley, the first town it will pass today on its 350 mile trip to Shreveport.
Although crowds would be smaller than on the train's southbound trip, large numbers of people still came out on this hot Saturday to watch this Canadian 4-8-4 steam home.
B41B (Final Spike Steam Tour; Mexico City, CDMX to Calgary, AB)
CP H1b 4-6-4 #2816
CP SD70ACU #7013
CP FP9A #1401
CP FP9A #4107
Beasley, TX
June 15th, 2024
The restored A-B-A set of KCS F-units with an Office Car Special fly high over a bridge over County Road 292 on the west side of Bowling Green.
-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
-County Road 292, Bowling Green, MO
-August 26, 2018
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CP 1401 leads CP 40B South through Rondout, Illinois on it's way to Bensenville, Illinois along the C&M Sub.
It's been a year and a half following the CPKC merger, and KCS's "Belle" paint scheme is still plentiful at Knoche Yard. KCS FP9A No. 1 quietly rests on Track 202 at the former pig ramp with the business train while a "snoot" SD40-2 assigned to Run 11 switches on the Work Lead.
The KCS "Southern Belle" business passenger train is in town this weekend following a round trip to Amsterdam, MO the other day for KC Current, a women's soccer team that is sponsored by CPKC and whose stadium after the railroad. 10/12/24.
KCS Westbound Holiday Express shoves back at Levee Street in Vicksburg, MS. getting ready for a Christmas get together that evening to collect for Toys for Tots for the less privileged.
KCS Eastbound Holiday Express passes over the mighty Mississippi River as they come into Vicksburg, MS
Hiding under the Spadina Ave. overpass CN FP9A 6536 awaits her next call in Toronto the evening of September 4, 1976.
After a stop at Vidor for maintenance before beginning its trip on UP trackage rights, CP 2816 rolls over the Neches River and into Beaumont at control point Station 14. This is former KCS trackage, the east end of double track that stretches through Beaumont.
The lift bridge here was built by KCS in 1941, with MP trains operating over it from trackage rights obtained in 1905. In 1967, a large realignment of the railroads in Beaumont resulted in SP abandoning their nearby trackage and bridge over the river, consolidating all rail traffic over the single-track KCS span here. In the present, this is one of the largest rail bottlenecks in Texas and TxDOT is actively studying adding a second, parallel lift bridge to add capacity across the river.
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
Beaumont, TX
May 25th, 2024
The CPKC Office Car Special/Business Train passes through Naheola, AL. headed back to Calgary, Alberta, Canada after making a run to CSXT in Montgomery, AL,
Pausing its journey through the Ozarks, Kansas City Southern’s sharp looking business train has stopped in the small Arkansas town of Gravette. Presumably to off load guests that road the train south out of Kansas City, MO that morning. The stop will be brief and before long the train will be back on the roll towards Shreveport, LA, arriving there about an hour after midnight.
KCS 2 brings the "Southern Belle" into Decatur, Arkansas on a picture perfect Sunday. Although winter afternoon light did not favor northbounds, it did not deter me from a chase from Stilwell, AR up to Noel, MO. On this day, the "Southern Belle" was running as the "Santa Train" and was in motion between two stops.
Decatur is home to Peterson Farms (large feed processor) and they bought the F7A 73D and a caboose and put them on display. KCS converted 73D to a slug sometime in the 1970's and was in service into the early 1990's!
12-07-2008
Family vacation trips between Ontario and Nova Scotia often included a stop in North Conway even though it's a bit of a tourist trap. In 2004, knowing that the Conway Scenic was operating a pair of former Canadian National FP9As another stop was in order. The stop paid off with 6505 sitting in the sun. FP9A 6505 started life as CN 6505, spent part of the Centennial year as Canada 1967 powering the Confederation Train, then moved on to Via Rail before moving to Conway Scenic. After a few years on Conway Scenic it moved on to Pan Am where it occasionally powers the business train wearing the #1.
The CPKC Holiday Express passes over the Big Black River in Edwards, MS. on their way to Vicksburg, MS. to have a Christmas get together.
CP 1401 East throttles up the short grade at Oban Saskatchewan. The concrete elevator in the distance is served by rival Canadian National, who's tracks closely parallel the CP's Wilkie Sub for several miles.
A little later and ACR 1754 is on the move eastbound in nice mid-winter conditions. Two Fs and an SDL39 power GBSOA near Nahma Jct. No surprise, this was a "follow it until dark" scenario. January 18, 1997.
On a cloudy Saturday morning, CP 2816 begins its next leg of the Final Spike Tour as it slowly steams out of Deramus Yard in Shreveport, LA. Today's journey will take the 94-year-old locomotive 350 miles to CPKC's yard at Kendleton, TX, just outside 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
Shreveport, LA
May 25th, 2024
With her gorgeous CP 6 Chime blaring, CP 2816 brings the Final Spike Steam Excursion through Camanche, Iowa along the Marquette Subdivision on it's way to St. Paul.
After KCS rebuilt the former SP Macaroni Line in 2009, they had UP rebuild the connection at the south end of the line (which is still owned by UP).
Here, prior to the CPKC merger, KCS's F9's take their business train through that 10 mph connection track to join 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
Catching an F leading a freight during there stint of the AC/WC was for the most part an exercise in futility. They generally trailed due to constant complaints by a couple crews. Every now and then though somehow one would slip through the cracks and find it's way onto the point or a consist would be solid F's which left little choice. A late running ESSOA departs Fibre after doing a crew change one highway crossing to the west of this location with 1754 leading 6590 and 51 loads of pellets east on April 1, 1997.
After being on display for about four hours in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ it is time to head back to Boston. To the delight of fans PAR1 was placed on the rear behind MBTA 1074 and 3248 with her headlight on dim as a marker for the return trip east over the old Boston and Albany. Having been assembled and air tested they are pulling out of the facility toward the mainline with the cars in CSXT's yard providing a backdrop
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 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009 and now sandwiched in the middle is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022
Ontario Southland runs through many backyards between Ingersoll and Woodstock but in most locations there's a lot a brush. There are a few spots, such as this location in Centreville, where the view is relatively open.
Today's Woodstock turn has made a run from Beachville to Putnam with some covered hoppers before grabbing some autoracks from CAMI and heading to the CPR interchange in Woodstock.
KCS Westbound Office Car Special/Business Train B-MESH ( Meridian, MS. to Shreveport, LA. ) secured in Meridian, MS. waiting on their next days run between Meridian, MS. & Shreveport, LA.
China is the world's second most-populous country, but it's also a small town of about 1200 in southeast Texas. The name was originally "China Grove", coming from the local chinaberry trees.
China began as a water stop in the 1860's for Southern Pacific predecessor Texas & New Orleans Railroad, though now trains don't stop nearly as often. There's still an 11,000 ft passing siding here, featuring bowling ball tri-lights installed by the SP during their program to lengthen sidings in the late 80's and early 90's.
Here, we see CP 2816 race past an old SP signal at the east switch of China. The Final Spike Steam Tour has just left Beaumont and is only getting underway on its 120 miles or so of trackage rights on the UP between Beaumont and Rosenberg.
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
China, TX
May 25th, 2024
A nice looking A-B-A set of block lettered F-units power a short Royal Canadian Pacific train across the twin bridges at Bowness.
CP 1401 North rolls past one of the few remaining wooden grain elevators on CP's Calgary to Edmonton route
KCS Northbound Office Car Special B-LRKC passes through Westville, OK. on their way to Kansas City, MO. from Laredo, TX.
I can't take credit for coming up with the title, but it's a good one.
KCS's business train pauses at Tower 87 on a rainy day in northeast Houston. The train is deadheading to Laredo to pick up their new executive VP for a northward tour of the KCS system. As such, the train is being pulled backwards with the observation car right behind the power. This has also resulted in a rare chance for KCS 2 to lead, since KCS 1 will lead northward.
BSHLR 30 (Business Train- Shreveport, LA to Laredo, TX)
KCS FP9A #2
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #1
Houston, TX
April 30th, 2021
Built for the Canadian National, FP9A 1752 also hauled passengers for the Algoma Central. Here it is hauling freight with a couple of Pioneer Rail Corp. Geeps on the old TP&W west end.
It's a beautiful fall morning as Kansas City Southern's colorful set of A-B-A F-units, (FP9A 1, F9B 3 and FP9A 2), lead a southbound Office Car Special past Milepost 18.0 at the former station site of Bryant, Missouri in South Kansas City. November 14, 2016
Operating on KCS's 125 mile Pittsburg Subdivision, the classy train has no trouble maintaining speed on the half percent grade out of Kansas City's east river bottoms to the "top of the hill", another five miles distant at Grandview, Missouri where the line will flatten out across mostly open country.
We're at Chillicothe on the CPKC Kansas City Sub., and here we see CPKC Train 40B-11 led by CP 2816 "The Empress" on a Davenport, IA to Kansas City, MO segment of its "Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour". Playing second fiddle trailing today are a pair of FP9A's from the business train fleet; any other day would be the primary focus. They're passing a CWR train (continuous welded rail) in the siding and a plethora of MOW machines associated with their ongoing upgrades.
There's something a little symbolic about a Canadian steam engine passing a Mexican freight unit in the middle of the former IC&E, a railroad once cast off by the very railroad that made it an integral part of their new transnational system.
CP 2816, known as "The Empress" is a H-1b Class 4-6-4 "Hudson" locomotive built in December 1930 by the Montreal Locomotive Works. It carries a builder number of 68535. The locomotive was retired in 1960 and languished in the Steamtown collection for several decades before being reacquired in 1998 by Canadian Pacific Railway for excursion service.
It was returned to service in 2001 and operated in Canada and the US until 2010. The engine was returned to service first in 2020 for tests in Canada, and was rebuilt in 2023 for the "Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour" to Mexico City commemorating the one year anniversary of the CP-KCS Merger.
Locomotives: CP 2816, CP 1401, CP 4107, KCSM 4675
5-11-24
Chillicothe, MO
After a trip out to Worcester to be displayed for several hours in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard as part of the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ the display equipment is now on the way back to BET.
Leading the way is MBTX 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009. She is followed by
PAR1 a GMDD FP9A blt. Sep. 1954 as CN 6505. And bringing up the rear is MBTA 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988.
They are seen here on Main 1 sailing over Main St. at about MP 24.2 at maximum authorized speed for light power....which is the fastest I've ever seen a genset go! It was a rather remarkable sight considering how notoriously unreliable the pair are and that they've largely been hanger queens at least for the four years I've been around them here.
At left is an Irish bar and restaurant known as Stone's Public House. The building dates from 1834, the same year the Boston and Worcester Railroad first opened for business as it was building the line westward between its namesake cities. To learn more about this historic structure check out the history on their website: www.stonespublichouse.com/about
Ashland, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022
This was my primary location / photo of today's chase of the CP business train, as they head west on the outskirts of Downtown Minneapolis after crossing the Mississippi River.
The junction here is CP Stadium, which was put in a few years ago for the Northstar Commuter terminus at Target Field, a few blocks behind me.
KCS’s Holiday Express passes through Pittsburg, TX. on CPKC’s Greenville Sub, on their way to Sulphur Springs, TX. to have a Christmas get together.