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This unit was built as SP 7231- it became UP 9999 very briefly before going to NREX as their 9999.
The train symbol is the G64- and has only recently been rescheduled as a daylight run. When I lived in Wisconsin along this line- the train was nocturnal. Nice shot.
The remains of the MILW Harlowton, Montana roundhouse and turntable pit rest quietly amongst the wildflowers now prevalent on the site of the former engine facility- June 2006
BNSF northbound business train at Orr siding, Tomball, TX. Didn't even know it was coming until the engineer off the train in the siding came down to tell me about it.
The west entrance of the depot at Coon Rapids, IA still shows it's MILW heritage signboard in January 2002, sadly this building was recently razed by the BNSF.
SOU caboose X429 brings up the rear of Norfolk Southern's triweekly local on the former NKP mainline to St. Louis as it passes the abandoned LeClaire, IL interlocking south of Edwardsville. The rear brakeman seems to be enjoying the breeze on the rear platform as the train returns to the...
You've taken a wonderful photo!- and while the 6922 isn't ex-CGW, she was one of two SD40-2s painted in 1976 in the Falcon Service scheme for the CNW, the other- 6910 was wrecked in Minnesota in 1987. A rare bird indeed!
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