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By:Andre Wehrle
Dates:1/13/2020 - 12/31/2022
Album Info:The book is closed on the 2010s, let's see what the 2020s have in store along CP's Chicago-Twin Cities corridor.
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CP 8121 West, autorack/intermodal train 199
Title:  CP 8121 West, autorack/intermodal train 199
Description:  Birdsey St. at 1455. This unit was one of the first order of AC4400CWM rebuilds in early 2018. It was originally CP 9666.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:44:42 PM
Location:  Columbus, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8121(AC4400CWM)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
CP 8010 rear DPU on 199
Title:  CP 8010 rear DPU on 199
Description:  In the early days of distributed power on these daily intermodal trains, this 1x1 configuration (one on the front, one on the tail) was common. Now it has been a while since I last saw one set up like this as opposed to mid-train. This was rebuilt from CP 9541.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:48:46 PM
Location:  Columbus, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8010(AC4400CWM)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
Mean Drab Green Machine
Title:  Mean Drab Green Machine
Description:  Empty ethanol train 651 with the D-Day commemorative unit in the lead.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:53:44 PM
Location:  Columbus, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6644(SD70ACU)
Views:  236   Comments: 1
CP 6644 (D-Day Commemorative Unit) West, empty ethanol train 651
Title:  CP 6644 (D-Day Commemorative Unit) West, empty ethanol train 651
Description:  Birdsey St. at 1512. The number is a reference to the date of "D-Day" (for those who slept through history class, the day the Allies landed at Normandy in occupied France, generally considered the turning point of World War II in Europe), June 6, 1944. The paint scheme is based on that of the RCAF "Spitfire" planes used there. For the commemorative numbering, this engine was moved from its ordinary roster position of 7024. The other four military tribute SD70ACUs are numbered normally 7020-23. The next unit, 7025, and up are in the standard red paint with Golden Beaver logo.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:54:01 PM
Location:  Columbus, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6644(SD70ACU)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
Surprise Sixties
Title:  Surprise Sixties
Description:  Well, not a TOTAL surprise since I knew this train was coming at this point, but I didn't when I left the house to get 6644 leading 651. I saw the Facebook heads ups about this one coming west after I arrived at Columbus, to my delight. Empty rock train 9WWA is going to Portage to lay over for the night, tomorrow morning it will head to the Michels Pit at Waterloo for loading. About ten years ago, CP began a rebuild program on their remaining ex-Soo Line SD60s. They were sent to CAD Rail in Montreal, rebuilt, repainted in the plain red with white text scheme, and renumbered with a "2" replacing the "0" in the second digit of the SOO number (6232 was 6032, etc). Then, beginning in 2017, ten were sent to NRE Silvis for rebuilding to "SD60-3." These were numbered 6300-6309. A few of them were among the handful that escaped the initial round of rebuilds and thus still wore their SOO paint and numbers until that time. Others were rebuilt twice in less than a decade, including 6308. The former SOO 6050 did a brief stint as CP 6250. Most (but not all) of the SD60-3s received the "Golden Beaver" scheme after it was re-introduced late in 2017.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:56:25 PM
Location:  Fall River, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6232(SD60)
Views:  218   Comments: 0
Lining the switch for 9WWA to enter the yard
Title:  Lining the switch for 9WWA to enter the yard
Description:  The empty train made great time and despite being neck-and-neck with them on Highway 16 by Wyocena I wasn't able to beat them to Popenfus' with enough time to set up. It was only due to their having to stop to line this switch, and my knowledge of the back roads of Portage, that I was able to get these shots.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:56:50 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  122   Comments: 0
All Tied Up
Title:  All Tied Up
Description:  9WWA has caught up to the two other westbounds that were running ahead of it on the Watertown Sub. That's 199's DPU, and 651's tail end buffer car on the right.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:57:42 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8010(AC4400CWM)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
Yarding the Herzog MTs
Title:  Yarding the Herzog MTs
Description:  The crew will cut the power off and take headroom at Three Light to run around, then tie it down. The train will be run to the "Pit" at Waterloo for loading the next morning.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 5:58:58 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  196   Comments: 0
BNSF 9314 East, CP manifest train 288
Title:  BNSF 9314 East, CP manifest train 288
Description:  East control point/County Highway P at 1644. I've caught several of the BNSF Dash 9s that have been frequenting the CP in Wisconsin of late, nice to get an EMD on the point. I'd seen this train slowly creeping east in the yard, so I drove to the east side of Portage and waited around a while, to no avail. I then drove to the west end in anticipation of 199 and 651's eventual departures, so of course that was when THIS train dialed up the dispatcher to verify his TGBO, give his counts and go. I had to haul @$$ all the way back through town and barely got set up in time.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 6:00:16 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  BNSF 9314(SD70ACe)
Views:  52   Comments: 0
UP 7848, rear end DPU on CP 288
Title:  UP 7848, rear end DPU on CP 288
Description:  With as much UP and BNSF power as been appearing on the CP of late, I don't really need to drive all the way to those railroads' lines!
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 6:00:39 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 7848(AC45CCTE)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
String of Empty Whiskey Barrels
Title:  String of Empty Whiskey Barrels
Description:  The entirety of 651's relatively short train is in this shot, passing MP 184 approaching Wolfram Road. Tail has just cleared Weyh Road.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 6:01:06 PM
Location:  Lewiston, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6644(SD70ACU)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
Full Throttle Spitfire
Title:  Full Throttle Spitfire
Description:  The (by PSR/distributed power era standards) fairly short, and empty 651 train had no trouble quickly accelerating to track speed. 6644's paint scheme was inspired by that of the Royal Canadian Air Force's "Spitfire" planes used during World War II including D-Day.
Photo Date:  3/30/2021  Upload Date: 3/31/2021 6:01:40 PM
Location:  Lewiston, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  163   Comments: 0
Identity Crisis
Title:  Identity Crisis
Description:  An imperfection on CP 8866's conductor's side front numberboard makes it appear to read 8366. 199 has just changed crews at Popenfus,' momentarily they will pull through the junction and down to Three Light to wait on eastbound traffic to clear up.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:55:02 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8866(ES44AC)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
288 blasts off from the yard, taking the main
Title:  288 blasts off from the yard, taking the main
Description:  The first train to join what would become quite a traffic snarl-up on the Watertown Sub on this unseasonably warm Monday afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:55:17 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8535(AC44CW)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
198 now follows 288 out of town
Title:  198 now follows 288 out of town
Description:  Exactly 20 minutes behind at the junction.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:55:53 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8762(ES44AC)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
CP 8762 East, intermodal train 198
Title:  CP 8762 East, intermodal train 198
Description:  Ontario St. (Popenfus') at 1649.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:57:01 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8762(ES44AC)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
Doublestack GEVO sandwich
Title:  Doublestack GEVO sandwich
Description:  198's mid-train DPU.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/8/2021 1:57:14 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8756(ES44AC)
Views:  52   Comments: 0
Perfect light on an imperfect P42
Title:  Perfect light on an imperfect P42
Description:  Too bad 130 couldn't have been leading No. 7 this day instead of Saturday!
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 12:38:52 AM
Location:  Rio, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  AMTK 53(P42DC)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
AMTK 166 has 166 miles to go to Chicago Union Station
Title:  AMTK 166 has 166 miles to go to Chicago Union Station
Description:  The lead units' number just happened to match the milepost location where I was set up for Monday's No. 8, five and a half hours behind schedule.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 12:39:04 AM
Location:  Rio, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  AMTK 166(P42DC)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Pair of GE rebuilds on 287
Title:  Pair of GE rebuilds on 287
Description:  Based off a post on Facebook, I had got the impression that the leader was one of the group of newly released, factory fresh upper 8100-series. No such luck. This train went around 281 at Dodge West, after the latter train had an air hose separate. This cost me an opportunity to catch it (with its Heritage SD70ACU leader and maroon HLCX Geep in the consist, per the heads up), as I had to leave for home immediately after 287 went by me.
Photo Date:  4/5/2021  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 12:39:49 AM
Location:  Rio, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8075(AC4400CWM)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
EB ethanol train 686 leaves town after a crew change
Title:  EB ethanol train 686 leaves town after a crew change
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/2021  Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:30:28 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 9708(AC44CW)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
CP 9708 East, ethanol train 686
Title:  CP 9708 East, ethanol train 686
Description:  Ontario St. (Popenfus') at 1415.
Photo Date:  4/17/2021  Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:32:50 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 9708(AC44CW)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
BNSF 261 second out on 686
Title:  BNSF 261 second out on 686
Description:  First time I've seen a BNSF SD75M since their renumbering (by removing the "8" in front), and first time I've seen a locomotive numbered 261 on this line since that steam-powered one!
Photo Date:  4/17/2021  Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:33:49 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  BNSF 261(SD75M)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
BNSF 7839 is rear DPU on 686
Title:  BNSF 7839 is rear DPU on 686
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/2021  Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:34:59 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7839(ES44DC)
Views:  48   Comments: 0
CP 8614 leads a CSX GEVO on eastbound manifest 288
Title:  CP 8614 leads a CSX GEVO on eastbound manifest 288
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/17/2021  Upload Date: 4/18/2021 7:35:11 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8614(AC44CW)
Views:  48   Comments: 0
Putting the hammer down
Title:  Putting the hammer down
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:47:17 PM
Location:  Richwood, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
Low 'n' Wide
Title:  Low 'n' Wide
Description:  In leaving this location to give chase to this train, I missed a grain train that it met just to the west.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:48:29 PM
Location:  Richwood, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  100   Comments: 0
Rockin'
Title:  Rockin'
Description:  Westbound intermodal/autorack train 199 running ahead of this train got bit by the MP 159.9 detector and had to come to a stop on the single track, forcing this train to drag their feet and allowing me to get ahead of them.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:48:57 PM
Location:  Rio, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
CP 6302 West, loaded ballast train 8WWA
Title:  CP 6302 West, loaded ballast train 8WWA
Description:  County Highway P at 1506. The Portage East control point, where the siding (essentially a 3-ish mile double track section) begins, is just over the crossing.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:49:49 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Fuel time
Title:  Fuel time
Description:  Here we can see there's a string of ten Difcos ahead of the GREX conveyor set.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:50:14 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  100   Comments: 0
CP 6302
Title:  CP 6302
Description:  Fill 'er Up
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:51:06 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
CP 6302
Title:  CP 6302
Description:  Of the ten NRE Silvis SD60-3 rebuilds released starting in late 2017, 6300-02 were painted just prior to the reintroduction of the "Golden Beaver." This site has the wrong serial # in for this unit, placing this as ex-SOO 6036/CAD Rail rebuild CP 6236, which I personally have seen still on the rails after 2017. This is actually ex-SOO 6035, one of the nine that escaped the round of CAD Rail rebuilds.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:51:41 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
Ballast loads on the move toward the yard
Title:  Ballast loads on the move toward the yard
Description:  A new crew will eventually take them west on the Tomah Sub.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:52:19 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 6302(SD60-3)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Ballast conveyor GREX 2800 is the "caboose"
Title:  Ballast conveyor GREX 2800 is the "caboose"
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:52:51 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
The ballast train ambles toward the junction
Title:  The ballast train ambles toward the junction
Description:  Here can be seen the full sixteen-piece GREX set plus ten company Difcos. Also note the trespassers just ahead of the power, who elicited some extra taps on the horn.
Photo Date:  4/24/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 8:53:13 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 2313(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
UP 8901 East, 1st-813
Title:  UP 8901 East, 1st-813
Description:  A train of coal loads (as it turned out, the first of two this day) for the Alliant Energy Columbia Power Plant at Portage winds its way out of the Wisconsin River valley.
Photo Date:  4/28/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 11:57:38 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Dells, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 8901(SD70AH)
Views:  118   Comments: 0
UP 3045, DPU on 1st-813
Title:  UP 3045, DPU on 1st-813
Description:  I like the look of these Tier 4 SD70AH's and try to catch them whenever possible.
Photo Date:  4/28/2021  Upload Date: 5/7/2021 11:57:57 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Dells, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  UP 3045(SD70AH-T4)
Views:  95   Comments: 0
CP 7018 West, autorack/intermodal train 199
Title:  CP 7018 West, autorack/intermodal train 199
Description:  This one was already on my roster, but it's been a while since I had the opportunity to get one of CP's classy Heritage scheme 70ACUs leading, so after shooting the UP storage pull move near Evansville I hopped on the northbound I-39/90 for Portage.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:20:55 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 7018(SD70ACU)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
CP 8709, mid-train on 199
Title:  CP 8709, mid-train on 199
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:21:27 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8709(ES44AC)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
Beaver in Your Face
Title:  Beaver in Your Face
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:21:58 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Dells, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 7018(SD70ACU)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
Maroon, Gray and Gold
Title:  Maroon, Gray and Gold
Description:  To my pleasant surprise, 7018 hasn't gotten quite as dirty as some of the other rebuilds in 20 months or so on the rails.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:24:33 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Dells, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 7018(SD70ACU)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
CP 8709 again
Title:  CP 8709 again
Description:  One of the first batch of GEVOs delivered to CP in the mid-2000s, they were the newest and cleanest power out there when I first took up railfanning although I was never fond of this bland text-only "CANADIAN PACIFIC" red paint scheme that came on CP's. They've reintroduced the Golden Beaver on repaints starting in late 2017, but to my knowledge all the GEVOs remain in the as-delivered scheme.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:24:50 PM
Location:  Wisconsin Dells, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8709(ES44AC)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
Westbound manifest snaking out of the yard
Title:  Westbound manifest snaking out of the yard
Description:  This was a second section 287, either a delayed one from the previous day or if not, running ahead of this day's first section!
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:25:20 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CSX 978(ES44AC-H)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
Leaning Into It
Title:  Leaning Into It
Description:  Notice the exhaust coming from 4452 - the Geep was on-line and pulling! The GE and EMD snort under the Wisconsin Highway 16 bridge, lugging the big manifest up to track speed.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:26:15 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CSX 978(ES44AC-H)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
Rounding the Industrial Road curve
Title:  Rounding the Industrial Road curve
Description:  Six minutes and exactly two rail miles west of the previous photos at the WIS-16 bridge.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:26:46 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CSX 978(ES44AC-H)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
CSXT 978 West, 2nd-section CP 287
Title:  CSXT 978 West, 2nd-section CP 287
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:27:32 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CSX 978(ES44AC-H)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
BNSF GEVO coupled nose-in to a string of TTX boxcars in the yard
Title:  BNSF GEVO coupled nose-in to a string of TTX boxcars in the yard
Description:  Can't quite make out the number. Based on the heat distortion on the trees above the unit, it looks to be running, but of the heads ups on eastbounds I saw this day, none mentioned a tail end BNSF DPU.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:28:18 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  25   Comments: 0
Airing it Out
Title:  Airing it Out
Description:  281 gets underway following a crew change with the leader's nose door left open. 8151 was part of an order of AC4400CWM rebuilds released in late summer of 2019, and in less than two years of service has built up quite a layer of grime. In short order we will see some that haven't yet had time for that...
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:29:14 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  CP 8151(AC4400CWM)
Views:  87   Comments: 0
CP 61 autonomous track geometry boxcar directly behind the power on 281
Title:  CP 61 autonomous track geometry boxcar directly behind the power on 281
Description:  This is the third time I've seen this car on a 281 train since October, 2020.
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:29:28 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Views:  86   Comments: 0
NS 3614 sits alone on one of the fuel tracks
Title:  NS 3614 sits alone on one of the fuel tracks
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/11/2021  Upload Date: 5/14/2021 8:30:41 PM
Location:  Portage, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
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Locomotives:  NS 3614(ET44AC)
Views:  88   Comments: 0


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