Helm Financial (HLCX) 7167 - EMD SD40-2

With lead unit, CSX EX44DC #5376, and trailing unit, HLCX #7167, the two locos are hauling freight near Danville, IL when an unidentified rail fan took this photo, now in my rr collection.

But still working hard. A CSX SD40-2 rolls west past the OnTrak station at Carousel Mall with 115 cars of Q633. The signals in the distance are CP 291, where the Montreal line leaves the Chicago Line.

GMDD-built; ex-BN/BNSF 7167

GMDD-built; ex-BN/BNSF 7167

GMDD-built; ex-BN/BNSF 7167

GMDD-built; ex-BN/BNSF 7167

GMDD-built; ex-BN/BNSF 7167

A very cold November day and this former Burlington Northern SD40-2 idles to keep warm at the DGNO/TNER Sherman facility.

Awaiting train time.

GMDD-built; ex-BN/BNSF 7167

A Helm Leasing SD40-2 wearing a blue dip paint job has more than enough horsepower to handle a DGNO mixed freight passing through Dennison. Delivered to Burlington Northern as SD40-2 7167 in September 1979, due to a backlog at the EMD plant in LaGrange, IL this locomotive was built at GMD London, Ontario. In May 1998 this locomotive received BNSF H1 paint but kept the Burlington Northern assigned number and in January 2000 was returned to lessor Helm upon expiration of the lease.

HLCX 7167

The Dallas, Garland and Northeastern RR has two dedicated rock trains that ply the lines between Royse City, Texas and its quarry at Stringtown, Oklahoma. The other site is just north of Plano, Texas in the hamlet of Melissa. This photo was bagged around 1730 this afternoon in Celeste, Texas.

CN 398 Eastbound at Massey's with CN 5649 - CN 2513 - HLCX 7167 - CSXT 7551

Q327 - 27 Westbound

HLCX 7167

Q327-23 with only one engine and several thousand feet on my 18th birthday!

Rail fanning started at around 7AM in the fog

And now....for something differant.

HLCX 7167 is the 2nd of 2 SD40-2's powering empty coal hoppers west thru Berea, Ohio

A pair of SD40_2's lead empty coal hoppers westbound at thru Berea, Ohio

Q127 Southbound through dalton ga

Heading south at dusk.