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LLPX GP38-2 2274 & an assortment of BNSF power & a GCFX ( GEC Alstom ) SD40-3 are sitting in CSXT'S Boyles Terminal Service Center at Tarrant City, Al. awaiting their next assignment
While CP's GP38-2 are everywhere, in the yards, on branchline duty and on mainline trains, CN GP38-2's tend to hang around large yards, which are often enclosed, being mothers to special hump slugs. That's why I was very exited when CN sent a GP38-2 on a local along with the usual GP9RM slug...
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I've been observing this local for almost two years now. It performs switching at Fort Rouge yard, local job to Fort Garry Industrial Park #2 (aka former Manitoba Sugar site) and to the cement plant, which is where this local is coming from. I've seen the following lash-ups for power, with an *...
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I've got to observe this lash up's work day. CP 3027 & 1127, GP38-2 & GP35 slug are pulling into the station out of the depo, then they did some switching at the station. I then caught them towards the end of the day 20km's away at MRM Steel (Scrap facility) in Selkirk, MB, with an...
3/5 trains that were waiting to head out west. CEFX 1012 with another CP AC4400CW on an intermodal, and in the backround, CP 5707, SD40-2, and a GP35 slug, CP 1127, powered by CP 3027, GP38-2. Those two were switching.
LTEX ( Former SP ) SD45T-2 6793, KCS GP38-2, GP40-3, another LTEX ( Former SP ) SD45T-2 9388 & NREX ( Former ATSF Santa Fe ) SD45 6418 are sitting at CSXT'S Boyles Terminal Service Center in Tarrant City, Al. awaiting their next assignment
Union Pacific GP38-2 #2265, Cotter, Arkansas, October 28, 1990, photo by Chuck Zeiler. BandAfan left a comment below, which bumped this photo top the top of the Gallery. This was the first photo I posted on this site, and I didn't include a description, so here it is:
This locomotive was...
You can expect to see something like this in Saskatchewan, but this is Winnipeg. To the left (not in the photo) is a major suburb, the HWY and CN's mainline is right behind the camera and one of the city's busiest HWY's, Kensaton, runs by the cement plant in the backround.
3 GP38-2's, CP 3122...
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