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Portage la Prairie is one of the best places to railfan on the Prairies, as that's where the CN & CP mainlines meet, not to mention CP's & CN's Prarie North Lines. The town itself doesn't generate much traffic however, thus there's only one unit on duty - a GP38-2, ussually CP 3106...
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On one of my last railfan trips before leaving Winnipeg, I managed to catch my first GP38AC, that was visiting town.
Although it looks very much like the more common GP38-2's, it is quite a different machine. For starters the GP38AC series is currently the oldest unrebuild locomotive series on...
I've never been to Dartmouth, however here's a picture of it, taken from the other side of the bay, the Halifax waterfront. Two CN SD75I's have come off the Gypsum train and are waiting in the yard. Although it is hard to see, a 47xx series GP38-2 is hiding behind them, with a load of autoracks...
I really like CP's GP38-2's - the main power on the branchlines. At first there was the multimark version, thr non-multimark version, then a couple were repainted into dual-flags, then the beaver... And the latest is this, the "Ingenuity", or "we're too cheap to use beaver...
MP GP-38-2 #2205, Cotter, AR, Nov. 24, 1990, photo by Chuck Zeiler
Built July 1980 (c/n 796323-8), it was eventually repainted in UP yellow and renumbered #705. What appears to be a scratch on the film in the upper left corner of the frame is a star or planet. This is a time exposure, and...
Grand Trunk GP38-2 #6228 has just passed the Senatobia High School, Porter Street and the Hwy 4 Bypass. Now it's working its way up to MP 430. (Where's the photgrapher is standing 10 or 12 feet at.)
My first IC repaint shot of the year. A little bit of every thing here. A GTW GP38-2 in the lead and an IC repaint SD40-2 in second place, and a centerbeam flat car is in third place. They're all passing through Senatobia, MS.
Grand Trunk 6228 roars through Senatobia, Miss with CN Local Freight L57671. Note: You know You're a railfan when: When You work on a clothes route for the Dry Cleaners and you intentionally leave the laundry bags on a Friday afternoon and the beginning of the next week (Which is a Monday.) you...
Coming home trailing his way into the shops. That's 1603 in the background, he now works with 1546 on the east yard as a belt-pack crew better known as 1546B.
I was hoping to catch CP 454 that day, as I haven't seen him for a while and he'd been officially annuled the day prior. So it was an extra suprise when I saw him with a SD90MAC leading and it wasn't a 91xx. The big boys have struck again! Don't think I can say much more about him then I've...
The SOO SD40-2's were always my favorite on the CP roster, as they're owned by CP, but are unlike the GMD SD40-2's at the same time, not to mention they don't look as bad as the wrent-a-wreck SD40-2's, most of whom have left us. CP seems to like these units, as we get about one everyday. Maybe...
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I've seen this Geep at the Sutherland shop many times before, facing me long-hood forward http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=40774&cat=500&ppuser=3391, but have now finally caught him working with sister CP 3112. Its amazing how a repaint changed the whole look of...
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