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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Bridgeport, NE in August 1993
On August 12, 1993 Dad shot UP SD60M 6283 (to UP 2428) and C40-8 9346 with a westbound unit coal train at Bridgeport, NE.
MRL SD70ACes headed back to the Livingston, MT yard after helping a westbound BNSF grain train over Bozeman Pass on September 28, 2008.
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A trio of Central Montana Rail GP9s run around the string of hoppers they just dropped off at Moccasin Junction where CMR interchanges with BNSF. CMR operates around 100 miles, give or take a dozen miles, in the Judith Basin of Montana. The line operates rails that were originally part of the Milwaukee Road and utilizes a fleet of ex-BN (exx-NP or GN) GP9s. The lines reporting marks - CMR - were chosen specifically because they are also the initials of Montana Cowboy artist Charles M. Russell and CMR operates the Charlie Russell Choo-Chew, a tourist/excursion train, in conjunction with the Yogo Inn of Lewistown, MT.
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This GEVO is brand-spanking new. You can tell not only from the nearly spotless paint (especially on the trucks and fuel tank) but also the roster at The Diesel Shop (which was updated on August 3) states that 7561 is the latest unit delivered.
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This Dash 9 was on the front of a train that came in from points west, an empty string of grain hoppers.
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This SD60M was siting with a Canadian Pacific SD40-2 waiting to pull a string of flatcars loaded with rolling stock axles out of the Laurel, MT yard.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, 11 Feb 1996 in Corbin, Kentucky
The Toledo Ore Company was co-owned by Chessie and Conrail, later CSX and Conrail. When CSX assumed control of part of Conrail (with Norfolk Southern getting the other half), CSX assumed full control of TORCO. TORCO had a number of units, including this ex-C&O SD35. Even before CSX assumed full control apparently these units would occasionally stray out of the Toledo area, but by the late 1990s they were on the verge of retirement and this one ended its days working yard service in Waycross, GA.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Reliance, TN October 1976
Three GP38-2s and a GP38AC lead a string of chemical tank cars across the Hiwasee River bridge at Reliance, TN October 1976, bound for Copperhill, TN.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Decatur, AL in May 1979
On May 29, 1979 Dad caught the northbound Floridian arriving at Decatur, Alabama with SDP40F 637 in the lead.
BNSF GP38-2 2290 (ex-BN 2290, nee-SLSF 435) and GP39M 2892 (ex-BN 2892, nee-SSW GP35 779) cross westbound across the Missouri River bridge in Great Falls, MT, returning to the yard with a single car from their afternoon local job on July 11, 2008.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in August 1996
In August of 1996, Dad shot PPCX E9Am 9913 (ex-BN 9913, nee-CB&Q 9989A) and E8A 5794 (ex-MBTA, xx-PC, nee-PRR) at Etowah, Tennessee.
To celebrate Tennessee's 200th anniversary in 1996 the state leased two old Es from the privately owned Tennessee 200, Inc. and had them painted in a scheme based on the old Louisville & Nashville blue & cream scheme. They were lettered Spirit of Tennessee and while the units were numbered 9913 and 5794, on their numberboard they carried 1996 and 1796, which caused no small amount of confusion.
One of two switchers in Havre, MT when I was there the morning of July 15th. BNSF SW1200 3519 is ex-BN 251, xx-C&S 251, nee-C&S 156.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Elizabeth, GA in October 1997
On October 29, 1997 Dad shot Georgia Northeastern GP20E 4125 (ex-SP 4125, xx-SP GP20 4057, nee-SP 7207) on the point of a GNRR train at Elizabeth, GA.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, Jan. 20, 1980
Dad found a couple of SW7s sitting at the station in Cartersville, GA in January 1980. Judging by the blur on the tank car behind the switcher it looks like there was a moving mixed freight going by at the same time Dad was shooting this one.
This original slide is now up for auction on eBay. You can find the auction listing here:
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in September 1997
On September 26, 1997 Dad shot CSX B23-7 3133 (ex-SBD 3133, nee-SCL 5144, to AOK 3133) in the yard at Etowah, TN.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, Sept. 8, 1984
For many years the engine house (called the "roundhouse" by the locals even though it was a large square) was exactly that, but eventually better mileage and better built units resulted in the shop becoming a car repair shop. Here in the late Summer of 1984 it was still an active engine shop and GP38-2 4127 and what appears to be a GP30 behind it are both sitting there waiting for service.
NOTE - The original slide of this shot was slit completely down the transparency from top to bottom near the right side. I imported the scan into Macromedia's Fireworks and digitally repaired the image using the Clone tool. If anyone would like to see a scan of the original for comparison just let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.
I went back to my hometown of Lancaster, South Carolina two days before my 39th birthday hoping to catch L&C 90 and 94 in their new heritage paint scheme that was close to what the first EMD switchers the L&C bought back in 19965. I id not catch them in a train but I did catch a shop crew using SW1200 to get a wheel set that had been stored on a mostly unused siding across Main Street. Here, they briefly block Main Street as they head back to the shop.
L&C SW1200 #94 was built for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1957 as PRR 7917, then became a Penn Central unit (PC 9017) after the merger with New York Central and, of course, Conrail (CR 9336) after the government take over of that railroad. Conrail sold it to the L&C in 1996. It was sold by L&C in 2016 to Florida Central as their FCEN 94.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, May 1981
With the advent of the Family Lines System-era the classic L&N paint began to disappear, subsumed by the ubiqutous Family LInes Grey, Yellow & Red (which would soon become Seaboard System Grey, Yellow & Red). Still, this is a Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 sitting in the Etowah yard with another 40-2 behind it.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson,at Morley, TN September 1978
Five days before my ninth birthday Dad shot these two with southbound train #129 at Morley, TN. Check out those old autoracks without side coverings or roofs!
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Glendive, MT in October 1997
Another shot taken on the trip to the Glendive, Montana yard Dad and I went on in October 1997. Two years after the BNSF merger BN SD60M was 9263 (to BNSF 9263, to BNSF 8163) still sporting BN Cascade Green with no BNSF reporting marks stenciled on it yet. This unit was waiting to work as a helper unit, to push eastbound coal drags up and over the badlands of eastern Montana/western North Dakota. As it waited, and after Dad and I took our shots, the engineer leaned out the window and invited us to come over and climb aboard. I told him that my Dad had worked for nearly 2 decades for the L&N/Seaboard System/CSX on the bridge gang. The engineer then said to my Dad, "So you never got to drive one of these things then?" When my Dad said he had never, the engineer then let Dad move the big unit a few dozen yards down the track and back. That made Dad's day, and mine as well. I didn't get that engineer's name, but whoever he was, I salute him.
BNSF SD70ACe 9148 at Helena, MT on June 9, 2008.
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One of the many captures with a train of the Canadian Pacific Railway going by this setting of Morant's Curve. While overcast and kind of blah with muted colors that day, I was able to use a Pro Contrast CEP filter and selected color control points to bring out a much more vibrant image with color contrasts in Capture NX2. I was also able to use selected use of control points with a Low Key CEP filter and other contrast adjustments to bring out more details in the low clouds around the mountain peaks on the far side of the image in the Bow Range.
On December 8, 2010 I found BNSF ES44AC 5942 on the ready track at the Great Falls, Montana roundhouse.
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Lancaster and Chester Train 12 leaves East Chester heading to work industries in the Richburg area.
LC 6002 was originally SP 8257 (built 5/1980) i then became Union Pacfic #8802 before being bought by Gulf & Ohio Railways and assigned to the Yadkin Valley Railroad as YVRR #6002.
LC 9146 behind it is a former Union Pacific GE C40-8. She is currently stored OOS as of July 2024.
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in July 2008
On July 8, 2008 Dad found CSX SD50 8604 (ex-SBD 8604) on the point of a southbound slow freight at Etowah, TN.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Habersham, TN October 1978
Fall 1978 and a Canadian National SD40 and a rare L&N SD35 are pushing a southbound loaded coal train up and over the mountain.
Lancaster and Chester Railroad GE C40-8S (S for slug) #9146 sits at Circle S Feed Mill in Bascomville, South Carolina in May 2017 as the crew waits for the feed mill to unload a few last cars of grain. The unit was built in 1988 as UP 9146. The L&C's parent owner, Gulf & Ohio Railways, rebuilt is as a road slug and permanently mated it to L&C #6002, a former Southern Pacific tunnel motor.
BNSF has been slow to repaint a lot of their old power and Heritage I painted SD40-2s are far more rare (at least in Central Montana) than Cascade Green SD40-2s. I think I've seen more Blue & Yellow ATSF painted SD40-2s than BNSF painted.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Atlanta, GA in January 1979
January 6, 1979 Dad shot SCL GP9 1028 (ex-SAL 1954) at Atlanta, GA. This unit would be retired in 1982.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Omaha, NE in June 1984
On June 14, 1984 we were aboard the California Zephyr, eastbound for Chicago when Dad shot Union Pacific GP9 215 with UP caboose 25530 at Omaha, Nebraska.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Houston, TX in January 1977
On January 13, 1977 Dad shot aging Southern Pacific S6 9020 (ex-SP 1248, nee-SP 1081) in Houston, Texas as we passed through on board Amtrak's Sunset Limited. This unit was assigned specifically to maintenance of way service at this time, hence the " SP MW" above the number.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Gibsland, LA June 1983
Louisiana & Northwest used several old F7As until the 1980s, and the units remained on L&NW property in a dead line until at least the 1990s. L&NW F7A 47 (ex-WAG 2101, nee-SP 6309, to Entertainment Trains 200) at Gibsland, Louisiana June 2, 1983.
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in May 2008
Part XIX of an ongoing series of diesel locomotive cab studies.
This is the cab of Kansas City Southern SD70ACe 4002 shot in Etowah, TN on May 21, 2008.
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BNSF SD70MAC 9778 (ex-BN 9778) was on one end of MOW train removing old ties at Deer Lodge, Montana on June 6, 2010.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Decatur, AL in May 1979
On May 29, 1979 Dad shot Amtrak E9B 475 (ex-AMTK 452, xx-MILW 25B, nee-MILW 205B) as part of the consist on the southbound Floridian at Decatur, Alabama.
Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 visiting the Strasburg Railroad "The Return of an American Icon," May 2021.
MRL SD40-2XR 258 (ex-BN SD40 6337, nee-C&S 877) in storage at Livingston, MT June 17, 2007.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Redondo Junction, CA in June 1984
On June 12, 1984 Dad shot Amtrak SDP40F 642 at Redondo Junction, California.
Three locomotives that made up what I called "the wye train" sit in East Chester, South Carolina on the Lancaster and Chester Railway on a weekend in 2008. In current day, this train would run under the symbol LC 12. L&C EMD SW900 90 is in the middle of the lash up where she once was one of only two locomotives to run the entire original 29 miles of the railroad. GMTX 2666 is now Great Smoky Mountains 2668.
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in June 2008
On June 19, 2008 Dad shot HLCX SD40-2 6334 (ex-SP 8406) sitting in the Etowah, TN CSX yard. It was part of the power on a southbound slow freight preparing to depart.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at San Francisco, CA in May 1984
On May 31, 1984 Dad shot Southern Pacific SW1500 switching commuter passenger cars at San Francisco, California.
BNSF SD40-2 8057 in Heritage I paint sits in the Great Falls, MT engine facilities with two FURX SD40-2s before picking up a train and heading out for Billings/Laurel, MT.
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Dash 9 4856 was the lone unit with a short string of coal hoppers. Don't see a lot of coal come up through Great Falls and never in long unit trains. I think 4856 was waiting for 4367 & 9416 to pick up their train and head west so it could do likewise. I really need to get a scanner so I know these things for sure.
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CSX geometry train W003 prepares to leave Cayce Yard in May 2023. A geometry train is a train that measures track geometry thanks to the use of eletro-magnetical devices. These trains are used to pinpoint any kind of defect in the tracks for the safe operation of the trains. This train left Cayce, South Carolina for Hamlet, North Carolina.
CSXT 9969 is was built as New York Central 3051 in 1967, then became a Conrail, same number. It was sold to Maryland Transit Administration as MARC 32 who later renumbreed it to MARC 69 and rebuilt it to GP40WH-2 specs. MARC then sold it to CSX who renumbered it CSXT 9969.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, in Etowah, TN December 1983
SBD GP38AC 6251 (ex-L&N 4030, to CSX 2160, to IANR GP38-2 3805) sits in the engine facilities at the roundhouse in Etowah, TN on a sunny December day in 1983.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, in Etowah, TN March 1987
A Chessie painted C&O SD50 and a Seaboard System SD50 sit in the Etowah, TN SBD yard with a southbound unit coal train. When C&O, B&O and Seaboard ordered their SD50s in the mid-80s the CSX merger was already in the works so all the SD50s were numbered by the three railroads in anticipation of the merger, making the roster changes much easier in the case of these units. These were among the last units ever painted new in Chessie colors.