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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, September 1980
This GP38-2 is probably not long from being repainted. It's still wearing an older L&N scheme (mostly yellow nose, italic lettering and numbering) that had long been replaced with a solid grey scheme and block lettering, and that had already begun to be replaced by the Family Lines livery.
BNSF C41-8W 939 (ex-ATSF 939), still wearing Santa Fe Warbonnet paint, is one of only 25 C41-8Ws on the roster, all originally ordered by Santa Fe.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Buford, ND in October 1997
BN SD40-2 7195 (to HLCX 7195) & ATSF SD40-2 5072 (to BNSF 6731) were leading an eastbound unit grain train by Buford, North Dakota on October 10, 1997 when Dad photographed them.
In ealy 2015, a Norfolk Sputhern Railway crew bings a high and wide load across Assembly Street in Columbia, South Carolina. I am standing at the much-less busy crossing on Catawba Street. You can see the old Whaley Mill across Assembly. An old textile mill in the past, it is now student housing ofr the University of South Carolins.
These loads were going to a nuclear plant being built along the old Southern W Line in Fairfield county. The project infamously went bankrupt and the power company had to sell out to another company. Meanwhile, the nuclear plant remains unfinished snd will likely never see comletion. It cost th taxpayers of the state nine billion dollars.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, in Etowah, TN January 1979
On a cold, snowy day in January 1979 a Canadian National SD40 leads two L&N six-axle units with a northbound slow freight out of Etowah. One of the things that so fascinates me about this shot is it is one that could never be duplicated. That snowy field in the foreground is now an asphalt parking lot for the Bi-Lo grocery store...
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On June 4, 1998 I found TC&W GP10 406 (ex-IC 8118, xx-ICG 8118, nee-IC 9144) idling between assignments in tiny LaMoure, North Dakota.
SD40-2 6375 and another 40-2 that I've shot before were being led by a GP39M as they sat with a mixed freight in the Great Falls, MT yard.
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The morning rain made for slick rails and the 611 was crawling, but she conquered the grade in Linden, VA on the former Southern RR mainline.
One of two Norfolk Southern GEs on an eastbound BNSF mixed freight in Malta, MT. The other NS unit was a nearly new GEVO. The lead unit was a BNSF SD40-2. When I jumped out as it was rolling past the engineer in the 40-2 waved and hooked his thumb back at the NS units. He knew why I stopped!
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One of two end-cab switchers in Havre, MT when I was there the morning of July 15th. SW1000 3648 is ex-BN 579, nee-CB&Q 9315.
It looks like someone handpainted the word "Havre" under the number on the cab. I wonder if this one had been somewhere for repairs and was hand-lettered to identify the return destination?
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This 1:29 scale AristoCraft ALCO RS-3 lettered for the Reading Railroad has just crossed one of the twin bridges on my friend's garden railroad.
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The Dinner Train in Columbia in Boone County Missouri.
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BNSF GP38-2 2322 (ex-BN 2322, nee-SLSF 467) at Great Falls, MT on 7/9/07.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Crawford, NE in October 1997
SD40-2 7254 (to FURX 7254) is separated from SD40-2s 7264 (to BNSF 7264, to FURX 7264), 7284 (to BNSF 7284, to FURX 7284) and 7222 (to BNSF 7222, to FURX 7222) by experimental diesel fuel tender BNFT 45 at Crawford, NE. This is one of the routes from the Powder River coalfields south down to the main line across southern Nebraska and this is a set of helpers assigned to that area. Dad I found them here in October 1997. The cloudy weather allowed shooting from different angles. To see my shot of this set from the other side click here --> www.flickr.com/photos/hunter1828/473780388
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in June 2000
On June 26, 2000 Dad shot CSX SD70MAC 788 (ex-CR 4143, to CSX 4588) still looking sharp in her as-delivered Conrail paint.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Sharonville, OH in August 1979
CR SW1200 9331 (ex-PC 9012, xx-PRR 9012, nee-PRR 7912) is obviously undergoing some serious repairs - or maybe it was just parked in the wrong neighborhood and thieves made off with the rear truck...
Rail Yard in Kansas City, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/100-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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6729 was the trailing unit of three on a westbound hotshot TOFC at Snowden, MT. She still looks good. I hope they don't repaint her anytime soon.
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BNSF GP39-2 2713 (ex-BN 2713) at Great Falls, MT on May 6, 2009.
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Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 9629 and an ES44AC have dropped their train in the Great Falls, MT BNSF yard and are headed to the engine facilities to refuel.
Does CP ever wash their AC44CWs? It seems that every one I see is absolutely filthy!
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Built in 1971 as Penn Central PC 7874, this unrebuilt GP38 remains in service as of June 2024 for the Hartwell Railroad as HRT 1973.
I almost didn't photograph this one until I noticed it was a FURX unit. It was sandwiched between two BNSF Cascade Green SD40-2s and I nearly overlooked it.
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One half of the fleet for the then still-new Aiken Railway sits at the small office for the railroad in it's namesake town in 2013.
This locomotive was buit as Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) 1275 in 1973 and later renumbered to ATSF 3275 and finally ATSF 2775 when she was rebuilt to GP30U specifications. When the Santa Fe and Burlington Northern merged in the 1990s, she became BNSF 2473. BNSF sold her to Larry's Truck & Electric who then sold her to Western Carolina who owns both the Aiken and Greenville & Western.
Former Southern Railway GP38AC #2866 brings a short train across Cedar Pine Lake Road in Lancaster with the high short hood locomotive leading long hood forward.
CEFX (CIT Finance, Inc.) leases this ex-Soo SD60. It was sitting in the Laurel, MT MRL/BNSF engine facilities.
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Landcaster and Chester SW900 91 works at unloading a grain train at Circle S Feed Mill in April, 2023. She was built in 1965 by EMD. I love shooting this little guy and try everytime I in in time since one never knows when Gulf & Ohio migt sell her off or paint it black, too.
The engineer aboard this spartan cab EMD locomotive is watching the rear-view mirror for his conductor and he guides the train slow through the yard in Cayce, South Carolina.
A few things can happen to an old locomotive once the railroad that bought it decides they don't need it anymore. They can sell it to another railroad or they can scrap it. The joke among some railfans is that the old train engine you see one week might be razor blades you use the next. In some cases, the railroad will sell it to a leasing company. Helms Leasing (HLCX) is one of those companies.
This vintage EMD SD40-2 was built for Burlington Northern Railroad in 1979 as BN 7181. HLCX later bought it and at the time this photograph was made, the unit was being leased by CSX Railroad. Norfolk Southern later bought it and it became NS 3553. It did not stick around long on ns before they sold it to the New York Susquehanna & Western where it is now NYSW 3024.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at La Follette, TN May 1978
A pair of sequintally numbered Canadian National SD40s crosses the Coke Oven Bridge at La Follette, TN with southbound L&N train #129 May 25, 1978.
Former VIA Rail FP9ARM with the road number 6510. Sitting on static display at Kam Park.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in September 2008
On September 1, 2008 Dad shot CSX C40-8W 7921 (ex-LMSX 703), C40-8W 7824 & SD70MAC 4573 (ex-CSX 773) as power on a northbound unit phosphate train at Etowah, TN. LMS stood for Locomotive Management Services, which was a joint-venture leasing company between Conrail and GE. During peak traffic the units stayed on CR rails but during slower periods were leased out to other lines.
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Canadian Pacific ES44AC 8742 leads AC44CW 9629 down to the BNSF engine facilities at Great Falls, MT.
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Early evening at White Rock Beach and Park, White Rock BC.
You could almost hear the sound of the approaching train.
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CSX C40-8W 7907 was part of the power on a westbound BNSF mixed freight on the Montana Rail Link mainline at Helena West, MT on June 10, 2008.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, near Appalachia, TN January 1996
A closer shot of CSX MoW Pumpkin U23B 9550 crossing the bridge over Highway 68 at Appalachia, TN.
Brand new NS 4694 heads east through Lilly, PA, as the train approaches Carneys Crossing where a group of fellow rails buffs await the engine’s shine.
This Dash 9 was headed away from the engine facilities into the yard at Laurel, Montana. I never saw it again the rest of the day so I don't know where it went.
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Yellowstone Valley Railroad GP35L awaits assignment at the Sidney, MT yard office. I wish that pickup (and another out of frame) hadn't been parked in front of the unit. You can still make out the lettering for Eastern Idaho Railroad ("The Snake River Route") on the sides. One of this units sisters, #3503, appears in the new issue of Trains magazine.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in January 2008
AC6000CW 5014 was sitting in the east yard at Etowah, TN on January 8, 2008 with a southbound Georgia Power unit coal train.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY in August 1997
On August 8, 1997 Dad found CSX GP38-2 2526 (ex-SBD 2526, nee-SCL 526), GP40-2 6072 (ex-C&O 4173) & GP38-2 2540 (ex-SBD 2540, nee-SCL 540) idling at Corbin, KY.
Thank-you for viewing my artist impression of CPR Steam Engine No. 374
CPR ENGINE 374 , holds very fond and unique childhood memories for me.
As a youngster, I lived blocks from the beach, where this old engine was displayed.
Every child in the area, myself included, played on this train regularly.
We climbed in, over and under the well loved, weathered ( at that time ) vintage structure.
It was a valued piece of history and such a great prop for developing the imaginations of young minds.
What could possibly be more fun, than pretending to be engineers on this historic old train, waving out the open window frames, stoking the steam engine, steering the train down the track, checking the wheels, and mimicking train and whistle sounds etc.
Examples of vintage steam engine sounds:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJAVJPX0YY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzU-1oiCgk
This grand ole lady recently celebrated her 130th Anniversary, and I was elated to spend this day with her, once again.
The volunteer staff from the West Coast Railway Association, used a heavy duty wench system to pull her outside into the great outdoors. It was a beautiful sight to see her outside the Roundhouse Museum, basking in the sunshine, as she once stood (in my mind's eye), so many years ago.
Engine No. 374 is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) locomotive that pulled the first transcontinental passenger train to arrive in Vancouver, arriving on May 23, 1887.
This was a year after sister Engine No. 371 brought the first train to cross Canada into Port Moody, roughly 20 miles (32 km) to the east.
History: ( As per Wikipedia )
No. 374 was built by the CPR in 1886 and was one of eight similar steam locomotives built that year in their Montreal shops.
While No. 371 was scrapped in 1915, No. 374 was completely rebuilt in 1914 and continued in service until 1945. Because of its historical significance, it was donated to the City of Vancouver upon its retirement, who placed it on display in Kitsilano Beach Park. It suffered greatly from exposure to the elements and a lack of upkeep. It remained there until 1983, when a group of railway enthusiasts launched an effort to restore the engine in time for Expo 86. It was moved from the beach and spent the next few years in different warehouses around Vancouver while a crew of volunteers undertook the task of restoring the engine. Completed in time for Expo, No. 374 was put on display on the turntable at the renovated former CPR Drake Street Roundhouse where it became a prime attraction.
In 1988 the Expo 86 site, including the Drake Street Roundhouse, was sold to Concord Pacific, and in the course of the False Creek North Development Plan, the developer agreed to convert and expand the buildings to comprise the Roundhouse Community Centre. The Community Centre was designed by Baker McGarva Hart and completed in 1997. The plan for the development had made no mention of the 374 and it was temporarily housed inside the roundhouse itself while it was decided what to do with the engine.
Successful fundraising efforts were undertaken by the Vancouver Parks Board and the Lions Club, among others, and a year later the new Engine 374 Pavilion was completed.
Now a central feature of the Yaletown area redevelopment, the Engine 374 Pavilion is open daily for public viewing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the winter. An anniversary celebration is held annually on the Sunday before Victoria Day. The pavilion is staffed entirely by volunteers from the West Coast Railway Association and on average sees roughly 41,000 visitors per year as of 2015.
A special thanks to you all, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I appreciate your visits & kind words of support.
~Christie by the River
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Back in June of 2006, I caught the L&C Railway on a Saturday run bringing a cut of car to the Norfolk Southern interchsnge in downtown Chester. The train is hauling empty coal cars that have come from the Springs Grace Plant in Lancaster a year or two before it shut down for good. Also of note are the three LLPX GP38s sitting at the interchange waiting to be picked up by NS. The railroad had four GP38-2 coming from GATX Rail and one of those locomotives were on the train moving toward us.
This locomotive was built in 1978 as Conrail #8230, to Norfolk Southern #5364. NS then sold it t Helms Leasing (HLCX) who renumbered it to #3819 before selling it to the L&C as the same number. L&C owner Gulf & Ohio Railways then sent the unit to the L&C's sister company Yadkin Valley Railroad as YVRR #3819 after doing some work to it in Knoxville as well as giving it the G&O corporte sheme.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, near Crawford, NE 10/11/1997
Dad shot these two Nebkota F9s at the same time I did --> www.flickr.com/photos/hunter1828/450192227 Not surprisingly, his shot is much better than mine. :)
U class 1638 through Freshfield Curve on the Bluebell Railway with a service train. 13th April 2010. More of the U classes at davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Southern-Region/SR-U-clas...