My morning photos

[Anonymous]

Caught two trains this AM between 7am-8am, just sharing for fun, I know my photo skills are not professional by any means but here they are. These were taken on the BNSF mainline North of Sioux Center, IA. It was a morning of old locos passing through

First train:


This maroon engine is a very rare sight for me (what is the name of this?) :


Second train:

[wcfan4ever]

The Maroon engine you saw belongs to the Canadian National now. However it is in Duluth Missabe and Iron Range paint.

Nice shots of BNSF SD9's still running around. I didnt think they still had any.

[Anonymous]

I don't see anything but a white square with a red X.

[wcfan4ever]

I'm seeing everything. Now how does that work? If I see the photos, you should see the photos. Hmmm.

[gabe]

My goodness, those are SD-9s. I had no idea they were still around on Class 1 service. Man you just made my day--they even went through the trouble of painting one of them in their new colors.

I am almost glad I didn't see that in person, I might have fallen over just looking at such a beautiful sight.

Gabe

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the comments and input and thanks to wcfan, that is what I thought but was not sure. I thouht the 9's were a rare sight too and both trains were rolling along at about 15 mph vs the normal 40+mph.

[oskar]

nice pics





kevin

[CSXrules4eva]

This is most defanitly a very interesting lash up. I LIKE IT!! Espually , the o so wonderful SD9s there. To top it all off the high nose SD9 is pulling a coal train!! AWSOME. I've never seen one in person. I actully didn't think any class one's had them anymore. I've only seen a couple of Amtrak and Seaboard System GP9s. Well, keep up the good work.

[locomutt]

Nice pictures!!![:)]

[Anonymous]

Great shots, thanks for sharing, interesting to see that CN unit.

[M636C]

The maroon DM&IR units was built as an SD45T-2. I think only SP had them, although Rio Grande certainly had SD40T-2s. It is probably a rebuild with a 16 cylinder engine, rather than the original 20 cylinder, and might be an SD40M-3 or some classification like that.

The GP30 looks original, but might be a rebuild with GP39-2 electrical gear.

An MP15 leading an SD60 on the main line, too!

Good work there!

Peter

[edblysard]

Lets see,
A SD40-2T in both Iron Range and BN paint, a Oakway Leasing SD60 in its EMD deom paint, a White faced GP 30 and a high nosed SD9, all in one morning...lucky guy!

Ed

[DPD1]

Quite the varied collection of power... Lucky catch on the DMIR unit. Those are cool. The white face is great too.

Dave
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[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

Lets see,
A SD40-2T in both Iron Range and BN paint, a Oakway Leasing SD60 in its EMD deom paint, a White faced GP 30 and a high nosed SD9, all in one morning...lucky guy!

Ed

That BN/BNSF locomotive in front of the Oakway unit looks like some variant of the GP15. Besides BN did not have SD40T-2s or SD45T-2s.

[JoeKoh]

very nice pics !! thanks for sharing.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

OH WOW! That is so cool,A BN GP15-1 on the point of an Oakway SD60!
So was the other Photo too. Weard Power!