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CN 5439 |
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CN 5439 gets back underway after having met Amtrak a few minutes prior. At the time of this photo CN had recently purchased many GMTX SD60's that were once part of the Oakway lease fleet that spent many years on lease exclusively to Burlington Northern and used mainly in the Powder River Basin lugging coal trains though some would occasionally break free into intermodal and manifest freight service. In its new CN paint the 5439 seems right at home lugging a slop freight through the flat Mississippi Delta. |
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10/16/2012 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 2:13:13 PM |
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Sidon, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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CN 5465 |
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Busted & Broken hangs out at Money, MS While not the most glamorous image it’s a reminder of what railroaders worst nightmares are made of. While a railfan can sit around wanting if not demanding trains, worrying over what’s leading and how many shots they can get, those who make a living where railfans invite themselves upon have far deeper responsibilities and concerns. Few in the railfan community appreciate or un.derstand what these men and women are up against. It may be being called for a run that gets put into a siding because it’s a lowly local resulting in them dying out on hours of service without turning a wheel in a seemingly losing battle to get over the road and accomplish something never mind them baking in a unit with no a/c, hows their train going to handle in a sharp curve as the terrain ascends and descends, distant and disinterested management, worn out power, a failing PTC system that mocks all reason, a crossing well known for chance taking motorist, trespassing fisherman on a trestle that they bare down on in a curve with little notice to get stopped in time, struggling to see a signal in heavy rain or fog, a walking inspection of an 11,000’ freight designated as a Key Train from head to tail then back up to head in hot humid conditions on ballast dealing with mosquitoes and snakes, what short sighted moron they get paired up with for a run or hanging on the side of a RBOX boxcar at 3:36am in a freezing rain. Then there’s this. Everyone wants to be a part of the action or is an expert until this happens. |
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10/28/2017 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 2:25:51 PM |
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Money, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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CN 5465(SD60) |
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CN 5483 |
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1/30/2016 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 2:58:39 PM |
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Sisloff Junction, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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CN 5483(SD60) |
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CN 8013 |
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CN Q-194 swings south through the curve at Wyatt, MS. |
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10/28/2017 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 3:29:30 PM |
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Wyatt, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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CN 8013(SD70M-2) |
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IC 1029 |
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CN Q-194 heads through Glendora, MS with old school heritage up front a bit. Needless to say the chase was on after this first of several shots until the light ran out. |
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9/1/2018 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 3:35:36 PM |
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Glendora, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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IC 1029(SD70) |
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| Title: |
IC 1029 |
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This days CN Q-194 brings back an older bygone era of this lines once proud heritage as it skips along at Mileston, MS. This Illinois Central SD70 is right at home back on home rails and leading a fast intermodal down the mainline of mid America. |
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9/1/2018 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 3:41:54 PM |
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Mileston, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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IC 1029(SD70) |
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CN 8873 |
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CN 8873 leads a northbound freight through Glendora, MS. Glendora is noteworthy but unfortunately for sad reasons. Only a couple minutes walk from this location is where Emmett Till was murdered in August 1955. What was even worse was that those who had his blood on their hands were acquitted by a jury and later confessed to having indeed taken the young Chicago boys life. |
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7/7/2018 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 3:46:37 PM |
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Greenwood, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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CN 8873(SD70M-2) |
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| Title: |
CN 2533 |
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Independence Day morning finds a CN freight with a mixed bag of power heading northbound through the home of comedian Jerry Clower. |
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7/4/2018 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 3:59:12 PM |
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Yazoo City, MS |
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Chris Martin |
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| Title: |
CN 8886 |
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The SD70M-2’s last stand on a class 1. CN and NS were the only class 1 takers of the model however NS retired and disposed of theirs recently. So CN is the last hold out and one of which is seen here on the point of an oil train strung across the expansive wooden trestle over the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa waiting its chance to enter Watco’s Alabama Southern yard before being routed to Hunt Oil in Tuscaloosa. |
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3/14/2021 Upload Date: 4/30/2021 4:06:18 PM |
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Tuscaloosa, AL |
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Chris Martin |
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CN 8886(SD70M-2) |
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