Union Pacific in Nebraska and Texas.
WITH AN ATTRACTIVE string of double-stack well cars loaded with ‘K’ Line containers in tow, Union Pacific SD70M No. UP 4008 & C41-8W No. UP 9529 power east out of North Platte, Nebraska, the location of the world’s largest hump marshalling yard (Bailey Yard) on, September 30th, 2002. While the lead locomotive wears a set of UP ‘wings’ both locos are mercifully free of lightening stripes, flags, shields, and other paraphernalia that UP has plastered over its fleet in recent years.
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Another selection of Norfolk Southern’s ubiquitous Dash 9s in action.
ONE OF THE pleasures of US railroading is driving along and coming up on a train at speed, then passing the train and setting yourself up for a photograph! This southbound manifest freight was one such encounter, and featured Norfolk Southern Dash 9-40CW NS 9157, Dash 9-40C, NS 8708, Dash 9-40CW NS 8929, SD40-2 NW 6171 & GP38-2 SOU 5011 for power. They are seen passing typically named water tower at Landis, North Carolina, on March 12th, 2005.
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A pair of former Conrail GEs repatched for Norfolk Southern.
RECORDED AT CANADIAN National’s former Illinois Central Markham yard at Homewood, Illinois, on May 3rd, 2002, a pair of the once mighty Conrail C30-7A Nos. PRR 8089 (ex-Conrail CR 6559, blt. GE, Erie, PA., 05/84) & PRR 8102 display their new Norfolk Southern PRR numbers and prefixes as they await their next duty. All of the six-axle Dash 7s have now been retired from the NS roster.
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Norfolk Southern SD40-2s, who can resist them?!
AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION of power was in charge of a manifest photographed at Celanese Drive, just north of Salisbury, North Carolina, on March 12th, 2005. At the head of the train were three former Southern SD40-2s, Nos. SOU 3309, SOU 3382, SOU 3229, while Norfolk Southern four-axle-trucked colleagues GP40-2 No. PRR 3053 & GP38 No. NW 4122 were also in the consist. The freight would set back a block of cars in the industrial facility off scene to the right.
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Who can resist this pair of EMD switchers?
ALTHOUGH OWNED BY the Kansas City Southern SW1500 No. GWWR 4399 (ex-Pittsburgh & Lake Erie P&LE 1543/Chicago Missouri & Western CMNW 1543, blt. 05/73) wears the branding of Class II bridge line subsidiary Gateway Western Railway as it purrs into the shared ICE/KCS Knoche Yard, in Kansas City, Missouri, with a transfer freight on September 22nd, 2002.
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