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In the last 10 years CN shrank their GP40-2LW/GP40-2W fleet from ~280 to about 60. Hence these engines are now rare. I've only seen them three times this year and I railfan the CN main fairly often. Statistically the IC SD40 series (SD40-2/SD40-3/SD40-2R etc.) is twce as common in the area...
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Today's 452 is a very special train. It has about 1/2 the usual cars and a GP40-2LW leading. Although he had lots of tankers mid-train, he looks like a unit potash on the curve.
9:13am, CN 452, 56 cars
CN 9437-5359 (zebra-CN NA)
1 bulkhead, 3 coil cut, 30 hoppers (12 cut up front, 15 on the...
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GVRR 2199 pulls the Tarantula southbound across the West Fork Trinity River bridge on a lazy May afternoon while some folks resting on rocks in the river watch.
A full moon provide a great setting for this BNSF bridge across the Lewis river near Woodland WA.
Of course, as required a train showed up about 5 minutes after I left the site.
A southbound Caltrain is about to duck into Tunnel #3 as it heads to San Jose. In the background can be seen Interstate 280 and the famous San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Far off underneath I-280 one can see all the way through the short Tunnel #2, made possible by the late afternoon light.
The ancient SOO Bridge, used by Steam,F Units, RS 27s, and all SOO movements between Shoreham and Humboldt, will no longer carry trains across. CP is putting a new bridge in.
Caltrain's 3:00 PM departure from San Francisco speeds across the Quint St. bridge in the Bayview District. Though the SP is gone from San Francisco, several of its bridges remain lettered for the railroad.
With a GP38-2 at each end, a transformer load on a 12 axle Schnabel car is the centerpiece of
a westbound O52.
Canon 20D and 70-200mm lens.
Copyright Dave Kerr, 2006.
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