SOO 6056

Crossing the gauntlet

Is sitting in the Fuel Track at UP's Strang Yard.

Is sitting at UP's Strang Yard.

A SOO SD60 is on the point of Union Pacific’s MEWSR-27 (Manifest Englewood Yard Houston, TX-Strang Yard La Porte, TX) is at UP’s Strang Yard.

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CP 167 rolls 68 cars past the rock wall in Endwell, the crags highlighted by the covering of snow from a recent small storm.

As NS prepared to single track the Tier, a project that would not come to fruition for another dozen years, it was replacing signals on the line. There were still a few semaphores, though by this time you could count them on the fingers of one hand. Some of the older target signals also got replaced, among them the eastbound signal on track 2, which had originally been about 1/4 mile farther east. It was replaced by this "Darth Vader" type, which was placed across from the target that stayed here in Campville. We see CP 167 rolling past in the snow of a January day.

A westbound freight heads for Grand Crossing.

An eastbound freight at Grand Crossing.

ICE 271, SOO-6056 & CP 581, SOO-4512.

ICE Train 271.

ICE Train 271, SOO-6056, CEFX-1023, SOO-6036.

ICE train #170 at Dresbach MN.

With a dog catch crew on board, a pair of SD60 family SOO units bring CP Train 170-28 through Birmingham on the CP Kansas City Sub. I'm still trying to catch a SD60M on the point, but it's hard to complain with this view.

Sweet SOO sunrise! ICE train #170

CP #182 power heads for Shoreham Yard to get their train.

CP Train 283, SOO-6056-6049, CP-5945-8884.

CP Train 282, SOO-6056, ICE-6439.

I've shot both of these units plenty of times, but how many more times will you be able to shoot them before they are rebuilt and painted in CP red?

SOO 6056 departs Mankato on its journey west.

CP Train 665

CP Train 665 heads west with an excellent leader!

A solo SD60 leads this westbound to Glenwood.

CP Train 491.

CP-University

CP-University

CP-University