Eastern Railroad Discussion > Gotta Love CPR's NEUS!

You gotta love the motive power assignments on Canadian Pacific Railway\'s Northeast United States territory. This morning\'s (April 2) Binghamton, NY to Philadelphia, PA train hosted six units and four separate paint schemes, as well as four variations of EMD locomotives.

Operating on Norfolk Southern trackage rights as train 30J-H5-02, it was led by Soo SD60 6038; SD60 6000; SD60 6014; Soo (red scheme) SD40-2 6615; CP (dual flag) SD40-2 5606; and CP (Beaver paint)GP40-2 4651.

Since I concentrated mostly on the slide film cameras, I was only able to get a grab shot of the 30J with the digital. The image shows the train passing the Cleona station sign on Norfolk Southern\'s Harrisburg Line. Sorry for the image quality, but you \'get the picture\' (pun intended).

Kevin Burkholder
Eastern Railroad News
http://www.eastrailnews.com

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Great shot w/a great lashup. I\'m glad to see SOO power still running around!!

I just picked up some pics of mine I took a few
weeks ago of a CP train with 8 units, CP 8648
(beaver), SOO 2011 (MILW bandit), SOO 6609
(red/white), CP 6047 (dual flags), CP 5695 (dual
flags), SOO 6042 (red) CP 8534 (beaver), and
CEFX 3106 (gray). That\'s 2 AC4400\'s, 1 SD60, 4
SD40-2\'s, and 1 GP40 in 5 CP/SOO schemes, plus
the leaser scheme.

30J in daylight. Nice catch. I haven\'t been able to keep track of that train lately. I assume it still runs east on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday(?) early mornings, but what time is it normally going through Harrisburg?

Nice shot, Kevin. I\'m never disappointed when I head out to see some CP freights (although those AC4400\'s have become a little too common for my liking).

For the fun of it, I\'ve posted a shot of my own with 8 SD40-2\'s in 6 different paint schemes (1 train with 6 units, and another with 2 units).

The train on the right has StL&H 5593, CPRS Dual Flag 5620, CP Rail (no Pacman) 5640, CP Expressway 5742, SOO 6613, CPRS Dual Flag 5616

And the train on the left has CPRS Dual Flag 5612, CP Rail (Pacman) 5817

Not too shabby. I just wish I took better photos of this train. Photo taken in Smiths Falls, ON last August.

Mike in Ottawa

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As a friend of mine would say, "The lead engine says what I think of all of that Kevin."

"SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" :)


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