Exotic Sightings

[bnsfkline]

I have seen CN in some very unepected places. I have seen them on the UP Jeff City sub......and CLOVIS New Mexico. Has anyone in CA seen a CN/CP unit, Has anyone in New York seen a TFM/FerroMex/Ferrosur Locomotive in NYC? I have seen some exotic units this year, Like a TFM Super 7 in Madison Yard (Two tone blue), a North Bound CN SD40-2 on the Chester sub, And.....an Alco on a Flat Car in Kirkwood..........BTW.....I'MMMM BAAAACK!

[Anonymous]

My freind saw a Soo SD60 in CA and I've seen a Ferromex unit in PA.

[Junctionfan]

I have seen a KCS AC4400CW in Ontario on an NS train. In Ontario on CN trains I have seen TFM, UP and all of it railroads including Cottonbelt, CP power on CN trains, BNSF, and ex Pennsylvania F units on a CN U.S bound freight.

[Anonymous]

I actually see Soo, CP and CN power very often in PA.

[espeefoamer]

I have seen CN units through Fullerton CA.I saw a Duluth,Winnipeg,and Pacific(CN subsidiary) unit once.I also have seen TFM units a couple of times.

[athelney]

Today - saw Ontario Northland SD75I #2105 westbound at Page BC - headed west with an intermodal CN train # 105 . Have not seen one of these this far west before .

[jabrown1971]

I live in Indianapolis, I can see anything roll thru on the CSX just about anytime....you never know. Looks like the L & I south of Seymour is getting busy with CSX trains, bet there are some good locomotives there. Don't forget the CPRS units just down the road in Terre Haute. Guess you could say Indiana is the crossroads of America.

[AntonioFP45]

Don't know if this qualifies, but UP units with American flags on the sides have made here to Tampa qutie a few times.

[tree68]

Wisconson Central and Soo in Northern New York. Working on locals, no less.

[eolafan]

Saw a TFM unit eastbound into Chicago on BNSF through Aurora (Eola yard) a few weeks ago, rather rare in this area.

[Anonymous]

Last Friday I watched a four unit way freight switching scrap metal on Norfolk Southern. They had two TFM units in the middle, with NS bracketing them. That was here, in Columbus, GA.

There's been a lot of strange locomotives running through town lately. I've seen UP, KCS, BNSF units in the area. I went up to Chattanooga, TN, not long ago and saw WC, UP, BNSF and even a blue and white GE leased locomotive, all in the same train. In some spots it's kind of hard to figure out who "owns" the train...

Which leads to the question- do "host" railroads make any effort to stick their own locomotives on point ahead of leased or loaned equipment?

Might be time to buy stock in those fellas up there in Erie... if the railroads are getting short of their own horsepower, they might be buying new horses...

Erik

[MP57313]

A couple of weekends ago a former CN unit was in a northbound freight heading out of San Diego, but I believe there was a "---X" reporting mark under the cab. I couldn't read it as I was a half-block away...

[Anonymous]

Saw an exTrona Railway SD45-2 in Selkirk, NY a few weeks ago and an exBNSF, now HLCX, SD40-2 in Altoona.

[dharmon]

A couple of weeks ago I saw a CN unit in the yard at San Diego, with two BNSF units and a UP Building America unit. Might have been the same unit MP57313 referenced. Been seeing more and more foriegn power lately down here.

[Anonymous]

When I lived in Erie, I saw everything except Soo and Mexican stuff. But my favorite spot to watch the trains go by was practically in the shadow of GE's plant and that may have had something to do with it.

[athelney]

What is CN doing ? - Today we had CN # 9523 east -- train # 102- intermodal -- 3rd unit was SD 40-2R IC 6016
Has CN lost all it's regular units & has to send IC ones to BC!

[tree68]

I see plenty of CN on the CSX Montreal Secondary - sometimes I wonder which RR actually runs the line.

New (for me) today, on the Q622, two GCFX leasers, lead unit all gray, trailing unit still in BNSF "Norange." (For the unitiated, that's Nora's description of BNSF orange locos.) Sorry, I haven't learned the "right" terms for the BNSF paint schemes - this is the first one I've ever seen up close, even if it was moving at track speed when it went by. Which is why I didn't get the numbers, either.

[MP57313]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon

A couple of weeks ago I saw a CN unit in the yard at San Diego. Might have been the same unit MP57313 referenced.

Which yard? I was down in San Diego back in February also. At the small yard where the MTS/Trolley and BNSF has an interchange track with the SDIV (and the trolley line to Santee diverges) I saw a couple of former CN units back then, with somewhat worn paint. The train I saw more recently had a CN unit with the paint in much better shape.

[MP57313]

Back in May, I was exploring the Winchester & Western "New Jersey Division" in Bridgeton. They have some interesting diesel relics there: a couple of former Erie Mining units, and a couple of Long Island RR units, plus other pieces of equipment.

[FThunder11]

QUOTE: I have seen CN in some very unepected places.

I saw a CN in colorado

[Anonymous]

How about a UP AC4400 in Bow NH ??