Category: Wallace Henderson
This was taken at the Hopkinsville depot with a dogwood in full bloom in the park on the right as southbound Q029 from Chicago to Atlanta and it is headed by SD50-2 #8660 with the second unit a C40-8. Both are ex-Conrail. -Wallace Henderson
Southbound CSX Q515 passes Madisonville, Ky Depot bound for Nashville on the afternoon of March 16, 2015. Photo by Wallace Henderson
CSX SD40-3 #4001 leads its train along railroad street, destined for Chicago’s BRC Yard. Photo by Wallace Henderson
3 SD40-2s lead Q647 through Hopkinsville, KY. -Wallace Henderson
Chiles Jct. (West Paducah) Southbound NS coal train on CN trackage rights led by the Wabash Heritage unit. SD70ACE #1070. – Wallace Henderson
Southbound coal train T-102 at South Latham siding led by BNSF SD70ACE #9179 with 2nd unit UP #6236, ex SP AC4400CW #189 still in SP paint and lettering. – Wallace Henderson
Southbound coal train U-101 led by SD40-3 #4031 rebuilt by CSX from SD40-2 #8143 with new cab and short hood. (There are only 50 of these and they are hard to catch in a lash up and especially on the point.) – Wallace Henderson
By Wallace Henderson
When I arrived in the Twin Cities before noon on June 27th, I looked for a good photo location, and found one at Fordson Jct. along the Mississippi River in St. Paul. (photo #1) Here the Milwaukee Road mainline, now Canadian Pacific, descends from the bluffs above to join the former Omaha Road (C&NW)
now UP, to head east to St. Paul Union Station. Soon a Twin Cities & Western transfer run came down this line behind a Red River & Western GP15CAT and a TC&W GP20CAT.
The next day was our activities day for the NRHS Board Conference, which began with a visit to the immense newly restored St. Paul Union Station, which Amtrak will begin using this fall. (photo #2)
Next we visited the Minnesota Transportation Museum’s ex-GN Jackson Street Roundhouse. Then we went to the 261 group’s home at Minneapolis Junction where we ate lunch in some of the cars of 261′ s train and photographed the 261 in her shop building “home”. (photo #3)
In the afternoon, we rode a double-headed Northstar commuter train north to Big Lake and back on the former NP/GN mainline also used by Amtrak (photo #4), returning to our hotel in the suburb of Bloomington on the light rail.
On Sunday morning, June 30th, I drove across to Green Bay, Wisconsin to visit the National Railroad Museum to see their huge collection of railroad dining car china and drumheads (photo #5, page 1). They also have a UP “Big Boy” and Pennsy GG1 inside (photo #6).
On the way home, I stopped in Paducah and found the EMD Caterpillar yellow SD70ACE demonstrator
behind the power on the BNSF’s outbound local. On the next track, just out of Progress Rail’s shop in Mayfield were a pair of Canadian Pacific SD30C-ECO units #5014 & 5015. (photos #7 & 8).
