NS intermodal train 24Z heads east past BE Tower in Berea, OH in August of 2015. Since this shot last year, the green CP 194 sign has been removed from the tower.

Two EMD go with a manifest trough Jasper National Park in the valley of Athabasca River on the CN mainline to west.

The SU-99 is seen heading west thru Oakland at CARRY with a trio of different locomotive variants and paint schemes..

NYSW SU-99

NYSW SD33-ECO #3012

GMTX SD60 #9014

NYSW SD70M-2 #4060

Snow and ice caked CN EMD SD70M-2 No.8916 leads a loaded tank train across the CSX Willard Subdivision.

Bridge Junction

CN’s Grand Trunk Western heritage engine hustles the hot Vancouver bound exports towards Joliet where they will make their turn for the north.

An RDSW (Rutland Switcher) crew builds the evening's 264 at Rutland Yard while the setting sun emerges briefly from heavy cloud cover. 264 handles interchange traffic bound for CPKC at Whitehall, NY.

VTR RDSW:

VTR 432 SD70M-2 (ex-FEC 103)

GMTX 2617 GP38-2 (ex-PC/CR 7925 GP38)

VTR 202 GP38-2

NYSW SU-99 coasts west through the Maywood/Rochelle Park border on the first leg of its journey to Binghamton with a four-pack of engines up front.

CN 2519, CN 8012 & CN 8919 are westbound light power towards Taschereau Yard after bringing grain tran CN 878 to the Port of Montreal.

Norfolk Southern 28X detoured over the New York Susquehanna & Western due to a major derailment in East Palestine, OH. The train carried the symbol SU100X while on the NYS&W, and one of their former NS SD70M-2s was added to the head end for the run between Binghamton and North Bergen. Newfoundland station is an obvious, easily accessible location for photos, and quite a crowd had gathered to witness the event. It's a wonder that I took an unobstructed photo.

NYSW SU100X:

NYSW 4066 SD70M-2

An SD70M-2 and an SD75I (CN 8874 & CN 5762) lead a CN 377 with grain empties up front through Beaconsfield.

CN 8923 & 8922 haul the L506 over the Saint Croix River with over 60 cars after working all three interchanges, BNSF, MNNR, & CPKC. It's been four months since I last shot here. Green season is far superior than the dreaded stick season.

CN SD70M-2 8952, the GTW heritage unit, sits tied down in front of the Amtrak station in Homewood, IL with a cut of stack cars.

The era of Illinois Central SD70's hauling ore on the former Bessemer & Lake Erie as drawn to a close with the arrival of several SD70M-2's. On October 24th, L518 brought 3 of the IC units and a train of empty mow ballast cars to Butler for interchange. The train is seen here crossing over Kimbles Viaduct in Mercer, Pennsylvania.

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CN Bessemer Sub

Mercer, PA

CN L518 (Greenville, PA to North Bessemer, PA)

CN 8827 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

CN 8876 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010

CN 8800 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

IC 1038 SD70 Blt. 1999

IC 1028 SD70 Blt. 1999

IC 1034 SD70 Blt. 1999

CN 8842 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

CN A442 works through the Twining area of Alberta as it heads to Perks for a meet with A443. August 9, 2020.

CN A442 power: CN 8843 (EMD SD70M-2) - CN 2611 (GE C44-9W) - CN 8962 (EMD SD70M-2)

A Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 leads a westbound manifest freight over the UP Geneva Subdivision as it rolls through River Forest, Illinois on its way to Proviso Yard. A Union Pacific GP15 slowly eases west on the adjacent track as it moves a work train and passes under the CNW signal bridge.

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UP Geneva Subdivision

River Forest, IL

NS 35E (Manifest; Unknown to Proviso, IL)

NS 2771 SD70M-2 Blt. 2006

NS 8976 C44-9W Ex. NS 8976 C40-9W Blt. 1996

UP 2743 ES44AC Blt. 2016

Unknown Symbol (Ballast; Proviso, IL to River Forest, IL)

UPY 722 GP15AC Ex. UP 1722, MP 1722 Blt. 1982

After dropping off the intermodal portion of its train in Taschereau Yard, CN X108 is passing two tracks worth of stored cars with more grain cars to store around Turcot Ouest.

Operations on the CN Bessemer Sub are changing once again, with Canadian National sending EMD SD70M-2 locomotives to the line and implementing distributed power operations on the ore trains. The first train to use this new power ran on October 15th, with CN 8876 as the DPU bringing up the rear on a southbound loaded ore train as it passes the 120.7 searchlights in Albion, Pennsylvania.

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CN Bessemer Sub

Albion, PA

CN U702 (Conneaut, OH to North Bessemer, PA)

(DPU) CN 8876 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010

CN 8804 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

CN SD70M-2 8894 is seen leading westbound train #411 North Battlefield, SK to Vancouver Thornton, BC west at Snaring in Jasper National Park - 31/08/2013

The rest of the photos from the trip now @ www.milepost39.co.uk/mp39.asp?do=trip&id=15

The New York, Susquehanna & Western's BH-1 job from Binghamton heads north behind an SD70M-2 and SD33ECO, crossing over the Chenango River in Chenango Bridge, New York. This yard job is heading up the Chenango Forks to meet the CL-1 road train, and the crews will swap trains and rearrange power at the siding there before they return back to their respective terminals.

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NYSW Northern Division

Chenango Bridge, NY

NYSW BH-1 (Yard Job; Binghamton, NY to Chenango Forks, NY Turn)

NYSW 4064 SD70M-2 Ex. NS 2708 Blt. 2006

NYSW 3012 SD33ECO Ex. NYSW 3012 SD40T-2, SP 8242 Blt. 1980

Just a few miles from their destination at Riverside in Bellow Falls, Green Mountain 263 is rolling through the woods near Brockway Mills, crossing the Williams River again. VTR 431 is leading a pair of leasers, and forty-three loaded slurry cars; at Bellow Falls they will be handed off to Pan Am for the paper mills in Maine.

Having just arrived at Brownville Jct from Oakfield, Maine Northern Railway Train 910-9 shows signs of heavy drifting up north.

Maine Northern Railway

Train: 910-9

1/9/2022

Brownville Junction, ME

EMR Siberia Yard

A CN SD70M-2 is in charge of a Q train as it swings by the Baudette station. The crew is on their last mile before reentering Canada after being in the US for the last 50 miles.

The New York Susquehanna & Western's CL-1 rolls southbound behind a pair of ex-NS locomotives as it passes by the old station in Homer, New York as it makes the run from Syracuse back to Cortland. The station is now used by the town's police department.

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NYSW Northern Division

Homer, NY

NYSW CL-1 (Local; Cortland, NY to Syracuse, NY Turn)

NYSW 4062 SD70M-2 Ex. NS 2774 Blt. 2006

NYSW 3024 SD40-2 Ex. NS 3553, HLCX 7200, BN 7200 Blt. 1979

CN A442 works through the Twining area of Alberta as it heads to Perks for a meet with A443. August 9, 2020.

CN A442 power: CN 8843 (EMD SD70M-2) - CN 2611 (GE C44-9W) - CN 8962 (EMD SD70M-2)

Our final photo of day five has the NRRD rolling through a farm field at Alfrecha Road. Jim & I will be back here bright & early to start day six. We'll chase the S/B RDNR to North Bennington and then the N/B NRRD back to N. Clarendon.

A pair of SD70M-2's slowly roll across Conneaut Creek as they make their way through the loop track in Conneaut, Ohio to load the train with taconite pellets. This unique bridge is the only four track railroad swing bridge in the world, although the far west track has been replaced with an access road.

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CN Bessemer Subdivision

Conneaut, OH

CN U70262-20 (Iron Ore Loads; Conneaut, OH to URR - North Bessemer, PA)

CN 8827 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

CN 8800 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

(DPU) CN 8907 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010

It's a foggy and damp New Year's Day as CN 527 heads west with a pair of SD70M-2's running long hood forward (CN 8017 & CN 8022). Soon it will come to a stop and pick up additional cars on Track 29.

The Grand Trunk Western heritage engines leads Q199 south on the former Illinois Central main.

On a chilly Friday afternoon in Wallingford, a skittles EMD lash up leads Connecticut Southern CSO-1 south for Cedar Hill yard. The train consists of P&W SD70M-2 4301, CSOR SD40-2 3399, CSX GP40-2 6214 and 21 cars.

A pair of recently reactivated SD70M-2's lead NS B10 west through Porter Indiana on the NS Chicago Line

A not so common sight on the Flint sub is a unit oil train but on this day it happened to run in perfect light. It is hard to tell but these pair of EMD's are coming up hill out of the river valley after crossing the Shaiwassee River. The tracks will once again raise up to the level seen in the background.

Grand Rapids-Detroit train L303 rumbles across the Thornapple River behind a CN SD70M-2 and Dash 9. It has been a few years since I can specifically recall seeing a CN leader on the Plymouth Sub. Since the trailing Dash 9 had no PTC, the power had to be turned prior to the train's departure. One of CSX's autonomous Track Geometry cars is on the head end.

VTR 431 leads GMRC 263 from Rutland to Bellow Falls to drop the 43 loaded slurry cars for Pan Am and pick up the empties to return to Rutland.

EMD SD-70M-2 and SD-70 diesel electric locomotives switching in the Riverside, New Bern freight transfer yard

CSX K677 heads west through Portage Indiana with a CN SD70M-2 leading 2 other CN units.

The lead SD70M-2 rolls some coal as it powers 442's train south out of Bircham.

After a quick crew change CN 305 is deparing Turcot Ouest with CN 8949 & CN 2812 up front.

With heavy lake effect snow hammering the region, the loaded iron ore train U702 makes its way south on the Bessemer Subdivision behind a pair of Canadian National SD70M-2's. As the train rolls through Albion, Pennsylvania it gets on the main at the RX control point and passes the old Albion Mill complex on Canal Street.

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CN Bessemer Subdivision

Albion, PA

CN U70262-20 (Iron Ore Loads; Conneaut, OH to URR - North Bessemer, PA)

CN 8827 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

CN 8800 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007

(DPU) CN 8907 SD70M-2 Blt. 2010

NYSW SU-100

NYSW SD70M-2 #4064

NYSW SD70M-2 #4066

NYSW SD33-ECO #3016

NYSW SD40-2 #3024

NYS&W SD70M-2 #4066 leads the SU-99 for the first time since being repainted, with three other yellow-jacket EMDs trailing. The train runs through the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) siding in Maywood, NJ, due to the Southern Division Main being torn out for extraction of contaminated dirt.

A passenger special for CN's safety week crosses the Arcola High Bridge from Minnesota into Wisconsin, with cars provided by the Friends of the 261. The train had departed from New Brighton around noon on this day, and is seen here headed for Vancouver, BC. I'm not sure when the last time a passenger train of any sort (minus the RDC) ran across this line was, but I'm going to guess it wasn't anytime recently.

GMRC 263 heads west through the Town of Rockingham with VTR 263 leading. 431 is an EMD SD70M-2 built for the Florida East Coast Railway in 2006.

After being out of service and undergoing emergency repairs for the last month, Millrift Viaduct is now back in service, seen here as the SU99 crosses over the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. The normally nocturnal SU99/SU100 ran in daylight over the last two days to allow the contractors a chance to see a train safely cross the bridge.

NYS&W SU99

NYSW SD70M-2 4066

NYSW SD70M-2 4064

NYSW SD70M-2 4060

NYSW SD40-2 3024

Maine Northern Railway Train 909-27 crosses the East Branch of the Penobscot River on 5/27/2023. Recent bridge work is evident with the removal of brush and the placement of heavy rip rap.

Maine Northern Railway

Train: 909-27

5/27/2023

Grindstone, ME

MNR/MDOT Madawaska Subdivision

We ended our tour of the P&W facility with one last photo of the 4301.

9001 passes Bannockburn whilst at the rear of the The Azalea Sprinter, 18 Oct 2025.

9001 was working top and tail with GP40 number 7000 which hauled the train south from Willacoochie to Valdosta

CN B731 has 206 potash empties as it heads west through Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue with CN 8889 up front and CN 8849 mid-train. The train is passing the plant at Caron.