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My friend Matt Adams and I had our fun MRL F45 Great Adventure. We were in search of a MRL F45 on the Seattle Sub that another foamer had given us the heads-up. Well, we did catch some other trains in the mean-time. This consist is cool with the BN leading two H1 SD40-2's.
I was in search of a MRL F45 on the Seattle Sub that another foamer had given us the heads-up. Well, I did catch some other trains in the mean-time. Here is BNSF #7056 north with a general merchandise freight head possibly to Longview, Wash. or points north.
At one time CP ran almost a thousand SD40's and SD40-2's including leased units. Today they're numbers are dropping rapidly (300 or so left) do to the new GE's arriving.
I'm posting this photo today because a couple days ago the unit right behind 5876, 5390 was retired and I just found out...
Putting the older powere ahead of the brand-new. 5630 smokes its way eastbound with ES44DC 2239 and SD40-2 5372. The train bescide it is an eastbound with 5541 and 2446 on the point. That train would still be coasting too a stop.