Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) 8895 - GE ES44AC

The 181 slows for the meet with the southbound grain train, his stacks stretched out behind.

The 181 passes a group of Bradford pears on an adjacent farm as it works north.

The 181 rolls its 81 stack platforms past a couple of Bradford pears south of Watts

After the oil train passed, I went back to Westville to wait on the 181, which showed up about 30 minutes later. Here he is about to cross CR E 690 in a pastoral scene.

The 261 crosses Ballard Creek, whose bridge abutment can be seen under the power of this five unit consist-another KCS unit was mid train as a DPU. The light is just about gone.

The 261 rolls its 160 cars past the big tree south of MP 238. The detector just to the north would count off 676 axles; six units, 160 cars.

I caught up to him again at the old Hudson Foods feed mill a couple miles to the north.

I heard the dispatcher tell the southbound AEPX train hed meet a 10000 foot train at Stilwell. This is it, showing up just a little too late to get sun on it.

There was a non controlled siding here up til about a year ago, on the west side of the main. The 262 seen here has pulled a drawbar, and now needs to set out the offending car. I think they managed to get it in the team track, if there was room with all the MOW equipment stashed in it. Having that now removed siding-the tie pile is whats left-would have been a real help. It will be well after dark before the situation is resolved.

The head end of the 262 train is just north of Jefferson St, stopped. Hes meeting an empty oil train. but the meet will take several hours to complete, since the 262 pullled out a drawbar 12 cars into his train.

The grain train rolls away toward downtown Westville, passing this long view at the Arkansas Ozarks.

The DPU on the grain train rolls south past a lone tree in the pasture north of CR 690

2 CPs and 2 KCS will head out on CP 247 later. The two KCS came off X434 on Thursday

W/B CP unit stack train had been E/B on the CP Cascade Sub and took the Fraser River swing bridge S/B onto CP Page Sub and then onto the CN Yale Sub.

CMQ Job 2 with CP 8895 - CP 8929 - CEFX 419 and just over 30 cars passes through the small town of Greenville ME.

CMQ Job 2 with CP 8895 - CP 8929 - CEFX 419 and just over 30 cars heads east at Long Pond on a cold but sunny Saturday afternoon.

CMQ Job 2 with CP 8895 - CP 8929 - CEFX 419 and just over 30 cars passes through a small private crossing on the eastern outskirts of Jackman as they begin their trip on the Moosehead Subdivision.

CMQ Job 2 with CP 8895 - CP 8929 - CEFX 429 rolls east at Long Pond after the crew got off Job 1 and handed it off to the Canadian crew at Jackman.

Empty hoppers follow 3 ACs west at 0717.

196 rolls down the Midway Sub at 0937.

WB UP Mojave Sub.

The oil train is rolling south away from my perch on the Ark 12 overpass, the exhaust from the DPUs making the string of tanks shimmer in the late afternoon sun.

I caught a 110 car oil train at Decatur with these CP units working as the DPU, capping off a NAFTA consist. How so?? The leader was a KCSM gray GE, followed by a couple of the US assigned units, though one of those was former TFM. Everybody can play!!

CP train 690

Canadian Pacific 8895 Westbound coal train crossing the Canadian National Cisco Bridge over the Fraser River.

Shocking to see CP and SOO locos sitting in NS yard

Prepared for the meet betweet 287 (R) and 67n (L), I did this test shot in anticipation of the meet

An empty ethanol traain sets east of the signals at Johnson as the 36t rolls past the 287 west of Johnson in Binghamton, NY

sun was gone as the 36t rolled past the parked 287 (right of the CP unit) at CP Johnson as the 67n (empty ethanol train awaits the 36t's crossing over to the DL side ...3 in 1 at the end... and it is dark out too.

CP #8895 at the point of Pan Am Southern loaded coal train

UP 3754 - CP 8895 - CP 9530 skimming across the foggy Columbia River train bridge on a northbound covered hopper consist in our vast array of weather options... today its bright fog instead of dark fog and rain.

CP 8895 in second place behind her UP sister leading the northbound covered hopper trio with a little creative cropping for the Visit Vancouver folks - see? Blue sky, its _always_ nice weather here in Vancouver!(when youre indoors or actually away visiting somewhere else.)