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Guilford U18B No. 407 leads a roadfreight over the Grand Trunk diamond at Danville Jct., Maine in winter of 2001. Following the former Maine Central locomotive is another vintage General Electric, former Delaware & Hudson U23B No. 288. This would turn out to be the last run for either of these locomotives on Guilford. Besides the locomotives being gone, Danville Jct. has changed dramatically since 2001 with the diamond being replaced a few years ago.
That’s not super elevation, that’s branch line railroading at its best as the power regains home rails. You can almost hear the rumbling exhaust of the two B-Boats, now that’s something I miss!
Minonk IL
ATSF road freight
ATSF 6381 B23-7
ATSF 6318 U23B
Registration - KIG 3124
Vehicle Type - DAF CF
New - December 2011
Owner - R. Barkley & Sons Ltd
Based - Ballymoney County Antrim
Pictured - On the A26 Frosses Road, Cloughmills County Antrim
Notes - ex Liam Connolly Roadfreight
Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40-3 906 leads Canadian National train L568 south on the Missabe Sub between Burnett and Grand Lake, MN. Its somewhat rare to see SD40s on the roadfreight as this job usually features SD60s.
DAF XF106 530
New - June 2019
Pictured at the Mid Ulster Truckers Truck Show at Gulladuff County Londonderry.
The Oregon Trunk has always been a really exotic place to railfan. Jointly owned by BNSF and Union Pacific today, it travels through the scenic Deschutes River Canyon. From the early 80s into the mid 90s, it was a time capsule of 1970s railroading - just about all trains had SD40-2s for power and cabooses at the rear. The searchlight signals used for its ABS system gave it the appearance of being a big time mainline, even though it was a secondary mainline with nominal traffic.
Traffic on the line then consisted of a BN roadfreight between Pasco, Washington and Klamath Falls, Oregon; a second BN roadfreight between Vancouver, Washington and Klamath Falls; a BN local that worked north from Bend to Madras; and a tri-weekly UP local from The Dalles, Oregon to Bend, which ran south Monday - Wednesday - Friday and returned the following day.
Many changes have taken place since the BNSF merger. Today, the entire line has been converted to CTC. The track has been upgraded with welded rail and concrete ties in many places. UP no longer runs on the Trunk, although they gained trackage rights on the former Great Northern line south of Bend in the merger.
These are shots of a half hour I spent at a famous spot near Sherar where the Oregon Trunk crosses the Deschutes River, goes through at tunnel, and then immediately crosses the river again. We saw the H BAKPAS go north. It met an H VAWBAK1 at Oakbrook siding a few miles north. We caught the latter train as it rolled south.
In this image, the BAKPAS is rolling northward toward Oakbrook siding, where it will meet a southbound.