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AMTRAK 4oth Anniversary Brad Morocco caught Amtrak 145 GE P42DC in its new 40th Anniversary paint scheme. Photo was taken in Cumberland, Maryland at Viaduct Jct on the CSX Keystone Sub January 31st, 2011. The train is a few moments away from arriving on time at the Cumberland Amtrak station.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=353231&nseq=0 In celebration of the AMTRAK 40th Anniversary, an Amtrak P42 (some suggest maybe #822) has been repainted at the Beech Grove, IN facility into an AMTRAK phase 3 style retro paint scheme with the red, white, and blue stripes. (IT IS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THIS PHOTO) The front windshield area is black and beneath the stripes platinum mist. The engine wears an early-Amtrak logo, not used for some time. (Nick O’Dell photo ).
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Gary Knapp submitted this great photograph he captured on January 14, 2011 at 06:12AM. He had set up for a Vermont Rail System night shot of leased GATX #3105 in the lead, and look at the incredible result as the VRS train drifts through the opening between the pine tree and the church. In a flash this surreal moment is captured … the long wait and preparation well worth it!
On Jan 12th, CSXT train Q335 delivered orange and black LTEX Gp15-1 1419 to the Jackson and Lansing railroad (JAIL), a subsidiary of the Adrian and Blissfield, which runs over the former NS/CR/NYC Lansing secondary between Jackson and Lansing MI. (Photo by Steven McKay).
As 2010 rolled to a close, Great Lakes Central took delivery of GLC 395-399, 5 leased GMTX-owned Gp38-2's, which were built by EMD in 1972 for Penn Central. GLC 395 was born PC 7950, 396 nee PC 8012, 379 PC 8015, 398 PC 8021, and 399 originally PC 8031. Freshly painted by NRE/VMV at Paducah KY, they were shuttled to Durand MI via CN in December and January. George Redmond captured 395 and 396 on their pilgrimages thru southern Illinois just before Christmas.
George Redmond clicked TGM GP38-3 #G320 at the Total Grain Marketing/FS Elevator Casey, Il. 1/5/2011.
NREX SD40-3 #2001, lettered for Northshore Mining (NSM), was spotted at NRE Dixmoor, IL, December 27th by Mike Garza. It moved to CSX Barr Yard (Riverdale, IL) Jan. 4th. Sunday the 9th it was shuttled on train A447 to Stevens Point WI. Early Tuesday 1/11 it headed north in train A403 to Superior WI and late that day Proctor MN. Its first service was Thurs 1/13. Upon arrival, some grumbling was heard - as the loco is equipped with desktop controls. As it trailed the A447 6-unit consist Sunday, Dan Braun snapped this sunny portrait in Oshkosh WI of NREX #2001 with Northwood #104 on CN.
In January, CN handled the delivery of genset NREX #104 to the Northwood Pulp and Timber (a division of CANFOR) in Prince George, BC. This is the first 2GS14B built by NRE in an endcab switcher configuration - which echoes the NW-3's built decades ago for the Great Northern. Dan Braun caught NREX 2GS14B #104 in transit thru Oshkosh WI (Neenah sub) on January 9th.
The delivery sparked a search for other power used in that service - and we've uncovered the predecessors. Sw1200 103 was delivered as Milwaukee Road 2045 in November 1954. Mark Forseille shot 103; it will be the backup power for Northwood operations. Sw900Rm 102 was upgraded to 900 hp as Rock Island Sw900Rm 901 in April 1959. It was built March 1938 Rock Island 517, a 600 hp EMC SW switcher. Joe Ferguson sent a 1982 slide shot for this Blue Spruce (note their logo) safari. 102's days are not finished. Northwood reports more than one group is interested in the grizzly veteran.
At the Prince George Railway and Forestry museum rests number 101, a GE 65-tonner, seen in this William Rogerson photo.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1330236 The Northwood Pulp and Timber NREX 2GS14B #104 is a very different model design from the NREX 3GS21B seen here as Norfolk Southern #300 at the Franklin Railroad Days event a few years back.
Northrop-Grumman 1GS7B #507 was seen at the IHB East Yard in Riverdale, IL on Dec 28th, 2010. This genset was built at NRE Silvis in November 2010 on an SW1200 switcher frame. (#4491-7, weight 247,000lbs). Boston’s commuter railroad MBTA is receiving new MP36PH-3C’s from Motive Power in Boise ID. MBTA #10 is seen at the facility December 23rd and the pickup by the BVRR in these great shots by Matt Farnsworth. (Note the MPEX in the cab window for movement).
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Wallowa Union Railroad in Oregon has placed their three former BC RAIL RDCs in an auction sale in January. These are the BC RAIL Budds that were used on the Lewis and Clark Explorer train between Portland and Astoria, Oregon. Mark Forseille submitted some terrific shots of the BCOL RDC”s while still in service on BC RAIL.
Delaware & Hudson Vignette: D&H 1976 is a "souped up" Alco RS-3, rebuilt with a 2000 H.P. 12-251C engine, and chopped short hood. There were eight "RS-3M's" numbered D&H 501-508. 1976 is one of their two D&H Bicentennial locomotives, the other was a GE U23B. Taken by Kevin Piper at Bedford Park, IL, 8-13-76. Colonie started a "RS3M" type project in 1973 using parts from BM and EL RS3's, but it was never finished. Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho created the eight 500's with 251C engines and bodies from D&H RS3's that were shipped west. They were M-K model TE56-4A (continuous Tractive Effort of 56,000 pounds, 4 axles, Alco Prime mover). The 1976 was released in February of 1976 and hauled the first westbound D&H Apollo TV train into Buffalo in April of 1976. Bedford Park, IL is the location of the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard. The 1976 must have been there in August on a run through train. (From Kevin Piper and Steve Ross with thanks).
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