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<p>Because ES44ACs look exactly like SD70ACus....hint they dont. I find that I have generally good railfan luck. I believe this is entirely due to the fact that if I see a train I will stay to see the whole thing go past. I keep my camera ready as the whole train goes by, you never know what you may find.</p> <p>I have seen and photographed freight cars painted for Maine Central, Boston and Maine, Pan AM, Guilford, Norfolk Southern, Norfolk and Western, Southern Railway, ATSF, UP, KCS, BNSF, CSX, Chessie System (as recently as Christmas I found a Chessie snow plow and caboose during an Amtrak trip), Providence and Worcester, SOO Line, Canadian Pacific, Canandian National (also Canadien), Conrail, Reading Blue Mountain and Northern, as well as a plethora of X cars (private owned cars of all shapes and sizes). </p> <p>Edit: All of these sightings have occured 2015-present.</p> <p>I was fortunate enough to visit the railfan bridge a Selkirk Yard on a couple of occasions before CSX obliterated it to put a new bypass in around the yard (admitedly it was falling apart). I was able to find locomotives from all class 1 railroads in one place at one time, plus some Pan Am units laying over and a cab end switcher (some sort of EMD SW product, it was pretty far away and painted for a private owner).</p> <p>At Washinton Union Station I was treated to what I suspect is the oldest surviving SW-1 still in service (they started it up while I was on the platform taking a "smoke break" while Amtrak swapped power on the Silver Star or Meteor, dont remember which), painted for Amtrak, originally a NYC locmotive.</p> <p>If railroads are boring, youre not looking hard enough or in the right places.</p> <p>If I had to guess, the reason you are not seeing local frieghts is because the run them at night (P&W-Borg does that in south eastern CT).</p> <p>I forgot to mention Borg units, more commonly known as Genessee and Wyoming. Ive managed to catch Indiana Southern Railroad units 3 or 4 times on trips back to Indiana, either waiting on crew or hauling coal or grain of some sort.</p> <p>Also Connecticut Southern RR/New England Central (they even had a caboose, up in White River Junction, VT).</p> <p>INRD SD9043MACs are also pretty cool and unique. There are not a whole lot of these out there, so if you see one, take a photo.</p> <p>Most of the SD90H production has been scrapped due to their unreliability, or rebuilt into SD70ACus(NS)</p>
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