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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Lafayette, IN in June 1984
On June 15, 1984, Dad shot N&W GP40 1336 (to NS 1336, to MEC 370) at Lafayette, Indiana.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, in Oakdale, TN November 1976
A set of four FP7As in Southern's Black, White & Gold freight scheme sit at the engine facilities in Oakdale, TN on a cool day in November 1976. These units were still in active revenue service with the Southern at this late date.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Nashville, TN in October 1978
On October 27, 1978 Dad found ICG GP38-2 9574 (ex-GM&O 754, now painted in CN colors) and ICG GP10 8209 (ex-C&O GP7 5823, to P&L 8301) working an industrial spur at Nashville, TN, down near the riverfront.
Thirlmere Rail Heritage Centre engine 78, a fascinating step back in time.
New South Wales Australia.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN c. 2002
Circa 2002, Dad shot CSX SD50 8646 (ex-CR 6705, to CSX SD50-2 2477) still wearing Conrail paint at Etowah, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY in May 1975
In May of 1975 Dad found L&N C420s 1308 & 1313 working a local at Corbin, Kentucky.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in June 1986
On June 29, 1986, Dad shot SBD GP16 4629 (ex-SCL 4629, xx-SCL GP9 1036, nee-SAL 1962, to CSX 1729, to RVSC 1729) at Etowah, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Chattanooga, TN in September 1977
On September 24, 1977 Dad shot Southern SD24 6329 (ex-SOU 2511) & SD35s 2075 & 3025 leading a freight through Chattanooga, TN.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at South Etowah, Tennessee January 1973
Another shot of the trio of Auto-Train U36Bs that did test runs over the Louisville & Nashville from Kentucky to Florida in 1973. Ultimately a route that took the train through Nashville would be chosen over this route.
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Photo from the collection of my Dad, Jay T. Thomson; Max Miller photo
PRR 4-6-2 5456 at Camden, New Jersey on August 30, 1953.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY in July 1976
On July 12, 1976, Dad shot US Steel S2 100 (ex-GMO 1009) at the US Steel Corbin Works in Corbin, Kentucky.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Copperhill, TN December 1979
Cities Service Company bought Tennessee Copper in the 1960s and all of Tennessee Copper's ALCo switchers were relettered for CSC. CSC is, incidentally, the same company that, in 1965, began selling gasoline under the CITGO brand. This was, of course, before CITGO became a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the Venezuelan state-owned petroleum company.
In December 1979 Dad found five year old MP15DC idling in the yard in Copperhill, TN.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Jackson, TN May 1979
On May 30, 1979 Dad shot IC GP38AC 9506 (to ICG 9506, to Helm 1985, to MKT 1985, to MKT 331, to UP 1988, to UP 289), GP10 8072 (ex-GP9 9072, to VSOR 1284) & an SD40 leading a freight through Jackson, Tennessee.
BNSF ES44AC 6126 at White Bear, Montana on September 7, 2013.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in August 2013
On August 17, 2013, Dad shot CSX GP38-2 2503 (ex-SBD 2503, xx-SBD 503, nee-SCL 503) & yard slug 1022 (ex-C&O GP9 6214) working at Etowah, Tennessee.
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BNSF SD75I 8301 in the Great Falls, MT yard March 15, 2009.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in April 1986
On April 19, 1986, Dad shot SBD U36B 5751 (ex-SCL 1799) at Etowah, Tennessee.
MRL SD70ACe 4313 at Helena, Montana on May 7, 2014.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in May 1983
On May 25, 1983, a few months after the Seaboard System merger, Dad captured unpatched L&N SD40-2 3564 (to SBD 8192, to CSX 8192, to CSX 2436) on the point of a southbound unit coal train in the East Yard at Etowah, TN.
UP finally rotated out the power on the Pocatello-Silver Bow train, exchaning the trio of SD70Ms I'd seen for a month for a new set of SD70Ms. Ah well, I keep hoping for an unrepainted ex-SP or ex-CNW unit, but it probably won't happen.
UP SD70Ms 4452, 4650 & 4864 breaking up the P-SB train after arriving in Silver Bow, Montana on November 27, 2013.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY in Sept. 1978
On September 7, 1978 Dad shot CR U33C 6575 (ex-EL 3312, to CR 6880) at Corbin, Kentucky.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Chicago, IL in Oct. 1997
Sometime in October of 1997 Dad shot AMTK P40DC 829 at Union Station in Chicago, Illinois.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Highcliff, TN in Sept. 1977
On September 19, 1977, Dad shot SOU GP38s 2784 (to NS 2784) and 2796 (to PSAP 3876, to CBR 3876) leading train 202 at Highcliff, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Decatur, AL in August 1979
On August 4, 1979 Dad shot Amtrak SDP40F 645 (to ATSF 645, to ATSF SDF40-2 5267, to BNSF 6977) leading the northbound Floridian at Decatur, Alabama.
On January 6, 2012 I shot BNSF GP38-2 2367 (ex-BN 2367, nee-SLSF 697) at Power, Montana.
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Northern Pacific Baldwin 4-6-0 1356 was built in April 1902. Photographed on display in Missoula, MT, May 25, 2009.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Harriman, TN in Nov. 1994
On November 19, 1994 Dad shot CR SD50 6779 (to CSX 8676, to CSX SD50-2 2499) leading CSX C40-8Ws 7791 & 7754 with a northbound unit coal train on the Norfolk Southern main at Harriman, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, in Athens, TN
Speno was a competitor of Loram in the rail maintenance for hire service. Speno purchased several specially built F40PH-2Ms from EMD in the early 80s to pull their maintenance of way trains. Dad found one of them sitting in a siding in Athens, TN at the old Southern Railway depot in May of 1988.
Larry's Truck & Electric SW1500 500 (ex-NJT 500, nee-P&LE 1570) at Etowah, TN on December 3, 2008.
Dad had the Etowah Yardmaster run a report on the LTEX units for him and they went south to Atlanta, then to Waycross, then into Florida and over to Mobile, AL, and finally to New Orleans, LA where they were picked up by Union Pacific. No idea where they went after that.
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Photo taken by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY on 1 December 1995
A Cotton Belt B40-8 (one of only a handful of GEs to ever wear SSW lettering) and a CSX EMD sit in Corbin, KY on a nice December day in 1995.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Sufragio, SIN, Mexico in June 1981
On June 28, 1981 Dad shot Ferrocarril del Pacifico RSD5 815 at Sufragio, Sinaloa, Mexico.
MRL SD45-2 328 (ex-SP SD45 8833) at Helena, Montana on May 7, 2014.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Copperhill, TN in March 1984
On March 1, 1984 Dad shot GE S2m 2301 (ex-L&N 2301) with a tank car at Copperhill, Tennessee.
BNSF SD40-2s 1943 (ex-BNSF 8030, nee-BN 8030), 1688 (ex-BNSF 6817, xx-BN 6817, nee-BN 6357) & 1846 (ex-BNSF 6924, nee-BN 6924) on the ready track at the Great Falls, Montana roundhouse on September 16, 2013.
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BNSF SD40-2 1963 (ex-BNSF 6390, xx-BN 6356, nee-C&S 908) shot from the pedestrian walkway on the bridge over the yard in Havre, Montana, May 17, 2012.
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Had the night off work, so like a lot of others I went to photograph the light of the blue moon on this July night, that being said with my personal interests in a very different way. The BNSF 6527 South sits just short of nickel street as the conductor does a roll by inspection for the first of 4 northbound trains to pass by on the mainline on this well lit night in Broomfield, Colorado.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at College Park, GA in July 1978
On July 22, 1978 Dad shot Western Railway of Alabama GP40s 705 (to SBD 6796, to CSX 6796, to Helm 6796, to IORY GP38-3 3807, to CORP 3807), 702 (to SBD 6791, to CSX 6791, to KCS GP40-3 4756, to KCS 2826) & 2 other geeps pulling a northbound freight through College Park, Georgia.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Erwin, TN in Oct. 1979
Sometime in October of 1979 Dad shot Clinchfield GP38 2002 (to SBD 6273, to CSX 2182, to AMTK 720) at Erwin, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN August 1997
Two years after the merger with Union Pacific unpatched, unrepainted Southern Pacific SD40R 7320 (ex-SP SD40 8403, to GECX 7320, to HLCX 6338) sits in Etowah, TN.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Norton, VA in August 1978
Norfolk & Western SD40-2 shot by my Dad at Norton, Virginia on August 5, 1978.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Blackey, KY c. 1979
Circa 1979, Dad shot L&N C420 1369 (ex-SCL 1230, nee-SAL 129) at Blackey, Kentucky. This was during the filming of the Loretta Lynn biopic Coal Miner's Daughter. That's actress Sissy Spacek next the tracks, in the coat and black hat.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Dossett, TN in April 1980
On April 8, 1980, Dad shot L&N SD40-2 1272 (to SBD 1272, to SBD 8175, to CSX 8175, to CSX 2442), SD40 1231 (to SBD 1231, to SBD 8307, to CSX 8307, to MPI SD40M-2 9038, to HLCX 9038) and C30-7 7043 (to SBD 7043, to CSX 7043, to NERR 7043) leading the Harriman Turn around the wye at Dossett, Tennessee while in the background L&N SD40-2 3586 (to SBD 3586, to SBD 8214, to CSX 8214) and 2 more units lead a northbound unit coal.
BNSF SD70ACe 8750 at Great Falls, Montana on October 13, 2014.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Grand Forks, ND in Dec. 1998
On December 12, 1998 Dad shot Oakway SD60s 9029 (to EMDX 9029) & 9012 (to EMDX 9012) along with BN SD60M 9290 (to BNSF 9290, to BNSF 8190) idling between assignments at Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in June 1976
On June 20, 1976, Dad shot L&N GP30 1037 (to SBD 1368) at Etowah, Tennessee.
Montana Rail Link SD70ACe 4309 is one of 16 of the big EMDs MRL owns. These units were MRL's first purchase of brand new power. Most of their fleet is still second- or third-hand EMD six-axles such as SD45s and SD40s.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Harriman, TN in November 1976
On November 5, 1976 Dad shot Southern SD24 6347 and SD35 3099 (to BN SD38P 6265, to BNSF 6265, to BNSF 1805, to BNSF 1559) with a southbound freight at Harriman, Tennessee.