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CP 4008 is one of a dwindling number of non-GP20C-ECO units to be found on the M&P |
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Rebuilt/renumbered from 4608, ex-MILW 176, in November, 2016. |
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2/24/2020 Upload Date: 2/25/2020 3:20:14 PM |
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Madison, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 4008(GP40-3) |
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The returning G64 eases up to the north end of the branch |
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After catching them coming into Madison long-hood forward, I headed up to the main line. WB oil MT 581 is stopped on the siding. More pictures of these trains can be found in the album "Canadian Pacific ex-MILW Mainline 2020-2022". |
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2/24/2020 Upload Date: 2/25/2020 3:34:10 PM |
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Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 4008(GP40-3) |
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158 Comments: 0 |
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G64 rolls in from a run to Madison as 288's tail clears the junction |
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10/7/2020 Upload Date: 10/8/2020 10:08:11 AM |
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Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2208(GP20C-ECO) |
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112 Comments: 0 |
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G64 emerges from the industrial park lead |
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They've spent almost three hours switching here, and still have a few more moves to make before getting rolling south again. About a year after it was last in Portage and assigned to this job, 3002 has once again popped up after the train was the near-exclusive domain of the GP20C-ECOs throughout the spring, summer and fall. |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:37:03 PM |
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De Forest, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Cresting the rise to Holum Street |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:38:59 PM |
Location: |
De Forest, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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93 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Passing the fire station |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:39:19 PM |
Location: |
De Forest, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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111 Comments: 0 |
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The sun starts to play peekaboo as the train approaches Duraform Lane |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:39:42 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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139 Comments: 0 |
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Crossing Duraform after dropping part of the train |
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I think they left the WSOR interchange cars for Madison here so they would be out of the way while they worked the industries in Windsor. |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:39:55 PM |
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Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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98 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Starting the day's work in the industrial park |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:40:28 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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100 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Making a set-out in one of the many Capitol Warehousing spurs |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:41:08 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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103 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Workin' on the Railroad |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:41:58 PM |
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Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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94 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling ahead, bathed in the winter afternoon sunlight |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:44:07 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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137 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Shoving into another one of the Capitol Warehousing spurs |
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3002 is one of a handful of the 3000-series GP38ACs and GP38-2s to receive the "Golden Beaver" scheme. Most of them were in the old "Action Red" (with or without the Multimark) until the past decade, when they received the then-current logoless red with white "CANADIAN PACIFIC" lettering. |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:44:17 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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174 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling out after dropping all the cars except the load for WBS |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:44:28 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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96 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Setting out a load for Wisconsin Building Supply |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:44:39 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Power runs light north to do more work |
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12/23/2020 Upload Date: 12/26/2020 7:44:54 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 3002(GP38AC) |
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67 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Eastbound on the M&P |
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Saturday extra heading RR east (geographically south) at Windsor Rd. with a healthy train including a cut of LP tanks for the WSOR at Madison. |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:31:47 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Elephant-style pair of six-axle ECOs looks classy in the winter sunshine |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:42:31 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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110 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Preparing to work Capitol Warehousing |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:44:58 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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102 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Creeping ahead to pull past the switch |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:45:57 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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77 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Not the usual red ECOs |
Description: |
The four-axle GP20C-ECOs have become extremely common on this line, largely replacing the prior mainstay Soo Line GP38-2s over the past 6-7 years. However, to find six-axle power on the local has been quite unusual. |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:48:34 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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115 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Profile of a 30C-ECO |
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5043 is one of the second order of SD30C-ECOs, delivered in 2015 after construction at Bombardier in Mexico (the first order was built at Progress Rail in Mayfield, KY). |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:54:54 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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96 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP 5043's "builder's plate" and emissions standards info |
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Re-manufactured at Bombardier in Mexico 12/2015, from SD40-2 CP 5776 built in 1976. |
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2/20/2021 Upload Date: 2/28/2021 7:57:17 PM |
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Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 5043(SD30C-ECO) |
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90 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
813 crosses a thawing Duck Creek |
Description: |
Framed it with the semi-abandoned road bridge (open only to pedestrians and snowmobiles) that runs parallel to the tracks. These coal trains' days are numbered, as Alliant Energy has announced plans to shutter the plant by 2025. |
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3/6/2021 Upload Date: 3/6/2021 11:18:25 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 6771(AC44CW) |
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93 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
G85 crosses US 51 on its return from Madison |
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3/6/2021 Upload Date: 3/6/2021 11:19:59 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2255(GP20C-ECO) |
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117 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ECO and Dual Flags 38-2 combo |
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3/6/2021 Upload Date: 3/6/2021 11:21:03 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2255(GP20C-ECO) |
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122 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Watching and Waiting |
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G85's conductor looks on as 199 eases by on the main. They lost their air as they came to a stop for a crew change, and the outbound wanted to inspect the train as a result. This kept the junction blocked for quite some time, delaying G85's return to the yard. |
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3/6/2021 Upload Date: 3/6/2021 11:31:53 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2255(GP20C-ECO) |
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83 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two sets of coal power lay over north of the power plant |
Description: |
I didn't know they staged power here...in the past I've usually seen them run it light back to the Portage yard to lay over & fuel between coal runs. |
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3/20/2021 Upload Date: 3/22/2021 9:14:25 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 8101(AC45CCTE) UP 3064(SD70AH-T4) |
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129 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Alliant Energy's Columbia plant switchers glimpsed through the fence |
Description: |
The near unit is an ex-BRC SW1500 lettered MVPX 530. Its mate is MVPX 1020, a slug (no prime mover) based on an SW1200. |
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3/20/2021 Upload Date: 3/22/2021 9:15:11 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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MVPX 530(SW1500) |
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67 Comments: 0 |
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After waiting on two mainline eastbounds to clear the junction, 813 finally heads for the power plant |
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4/5/2021 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:57:35 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 3064(SD70AH-T4) |
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73 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
813's string of loaded coal gons creeps along the M&P branch |
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4/5/2021 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:58:03 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 3064(SD70AH-T4) |
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70 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Reflections of a Tier 4 ACe |
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4/5/2021 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:58:14 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 3064(SD70AH-T4) |
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76 Comments: 0 |
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UP 3064 East, CP coal train 813 for the Columbia Power Plant |
Description: |
Ontario St. (Popenfus') at 1701. I like the imposing look of the Tier 4 units from both GE and EMD. The "throwback" SD70M/AC style windshields and cleaner roof lines on these units compared to their ACe/M-2 predecessors are nice touches. |
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4/5/2021 Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:58:29 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 3064(SD70AH-T4) |
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108 Comments: 0 |
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813's DPU follows the coal loads across Murray Road |
Description: |
Despite making all possible haste, I was only (barely) able to get set up for video of the head end at Highway 16/51 and here. No time to then grab my T8i from the car and line up a shot. |
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4/5/2021 Upload Date: 4/11/2021 12:38:26 AM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 8749(SD70ACe) |
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88 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Alliant switchers knocking around the coal cars |
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4/17/2021 Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:10:50 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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MVPX 1020(Yard Slug) MVPX 530(SW1500) |
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86 Comments: 0 |
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MVPX 530 and 1020 pull north with the next cut of coal cars |
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4/17/2021 Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:11:45 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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MVPX 530(SW1500) MVPX 1020(Yard Slug) |
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136 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
G85 crosses a short bridge over a drainage ditch on its way back from Madison |
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4/17/2021 Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:15:11 PM |
Location: |
Poynette, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 4422(GP38-2) |
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137 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP 4422 crossing Murray Road by the power plant entrance |
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4/17/2021 Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:15:33 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 4422(GP38-2) |
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80 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Labor Day M&P returns north (RR west) |
Description: |
Caught this by chance while on my way from seeing Pat McCurdy's show at Lucky's Bar in Okee, to Columbus to catch No. 7 with 161 (new 50th Anniversary Phase I heritage unit) leading. This latter part ended up not happening, as the train struck a vehicle near Caledonia and was heavily delayed (fortunately minimal damage to 161, and the moronic driver who went around the gates in front of a 79 MPH Amtrak train somehow cheated Darwin). |
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9/6/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:28:54 PM |
Location: |
Arlington, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2300(GP20C-ECO) |
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70 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP 2300 West, G64 |
Description: |
WI Highway 60 at 1604. |
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9/6/2021 Upload Date: 9/14/2021 2:29:17 PM |
Location: |
Arlington, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2300(GP20C-ECO) |
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65 Comments: 0 |
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CP 2225 is the leader for the two Geeps and two cars of the returning M&P local |
Description: |
The train identified over the scanner as CP 3002 (the rare "old Beaver" GP38AC), so I'd expected that to be leading. Oh, well. |
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7/18/2022 Upload Date: 7/19/2022 1:27:50 PM |
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Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2225(GP20C-ECO) |
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96 Comments: 0 |
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UP 7465 leads an 853 loaded coal train for Columbia onto the branch |
Description: |
Something very interesting is second out. |
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6/14/2023 Upload Date: 6/15/2023 2:43:37 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 7465(AC45CCTE) |
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UP 7465 leads 853 across Ontario St. with a black-painted oddity behind |
Description: |
The M&P Sub runs parallel to the Watertown Sub main (and siding) for about its first half-mile after the junction switch before curving away to the south. |
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6/14/2023 Upload Date: 6/15/2023 2:50:05 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 7465(AC45CCTE) |
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32 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
KLWX 9530 second out on coal train 853 |
Description: |
Knoxville Locomotive Works Tier IV-compliant rebuild of an ex-BNSF/BN SD70MAC with a Cummins prime mover. |
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6/14/2023 Upload Date: 6/15/2023 2:50:24 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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KLWX 9530(SD70MACH) |
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153 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 8917, rear DPU on 853 |
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6/14/2023 Upload Date: 6/15/2023 2:50:37 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 8917(SD70AH) |
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52 Comments: 0 |
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UP 2652 leads an 852 train, coal MTs off the branch |
Description: |
Heard this blowing for US 51 behind me while waiting on 249 at County P on the mainline...didn't think I'd make it in time to catch this as well, but I did! |
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6/14/2023 Upload Date: 6/15/2023 3:29:47 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 2652(ET44AH) UP 2652(ET44AH) |
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41 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Night falls on the Madison-bound local |
Description: |
The original (I64) crew had died here, train was about to be recrewed by I66 to work the rest of the way to Madison and then back to Portage. |
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6/14/2023 Upload Date: 6/15/2023 3:30:00 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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CP 2223(GP20C-ECO) |
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39 Comments: 0 |
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CPKC 852, coal empties from the Columbia Power Plant, approches the end of the branch |
Description: |
They just refueled their single motor at Murray Road near the power plant. They were going to come into the yard to do it, but had issues with their marker. |
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6/17/2023 Upload Date: 6/18/2023 8:59:06 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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Locomotives: |
UP 6704(AC44CW) |
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23 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 6704 solo on this empty coal train |
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6/17/2023 Upload Date: 6/18/2023 8:59:42 PM |
Location: |
Portage, WI |
Author: |
Andre Wehrle |
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UP 6704(AC44CW) |
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31 Comments: 0 |
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