Eastbound UP Manifest at Kirkwood, MO
A CN SD70M-2 leads UP Train MKCAS 14, likely the most-photographed freight train in Missouri that day, passing the Kirkwood Depot on the UP Jefferson City Sub.
Railfans were crowded around the line that morning in anticipation of the train behind this one, a Wimmer Inspection Special with the UP Centennial on the head end, the trip that unbeknownst to us would be its last through St. Louis.
Not for nothing in this case, it was 3 foreign units on the MKCAS, a train that usually drew garden variety UP power most of the time. Those CN SD70M-2's were basically unheard of here back then. This one was only about a year and a half old, but they'd spent a majority of their life so far north of the border in Canada. When they did get into the US, they didn't get off the CN much being pretty new. The Yahoo! Groups were buzzing about it.
I think at least a dozen people shot it at Kirkwood alone besides me. The KCS ACe’s didn’t wander off home rails much at that point either. Hiding in the middle was an NS Dash-9, but who cares? Those will be around forever, right?
Locomotives: CN 8020, NS 9555, KCS 4017
4-16-08
Kirkwood, MO
Eastbound UP Manifest at Kirkwood, MO
A CN SD70M-2 leads UP Train MKCAS 14, likely the most-photographed freight train in Missouri that day, passing the Kirkwood Depot on the UP Jefferson City Sub.
Railfans were crowded around the line that morning in anticipation of the train behind this one, a Wimmer Inspection Special with the UP Centennial on the head end, the trip that unbeknownst to us would be its last through St. Louis.
Not for nothing in this case, it was 3 foreign units on the MKCAS, a train that usually drew garden variety UP power most of the time. Those CN SD70M-2's were basically unheard of here back then. This one was only about a year and a half old, but they'd spent a majority of their life so far north of the border in Canada. When they did get into the US, they didn't get off the CN much being pretty new. The Yahoo! Groups were buzzing about it.
I think at least a dozen people shot it at Kirkwood alone besides me. The KCS ACe’s didn’t wander off home rails much at that point either. Hiding in the middle was an NS Dash-9, but who cares? Those will be around forever, right?
Locomotives: CN 8020, NS 9555, KCS 4017
4-16-08
Kirkwood, MO