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Running as CSXT train Z473-18, this Grand Trunk trackage rights train has just departed CSXT's Queensgate Yard enroute to Detroit with a heavy volume of steel traffic.

One of three remaning SD40-2s in GT paint has been paired with a WC SD45 to create what has to be one of the rarest consists on the CN system.

GTW 4628 pauses at Schaefer on former DT&I iron. The cross track is of Michigan Central heritage.

GT GP9R 4624 sits at Homewood leading a eight engine line with seven different paint schemes.

Currently sitting on 10th Street, & blocking 11th, 13th, & Division Streets, the "Millsdale Turn"(CN R95491) changes crews in Lockport(very rare). Once the crew change is complete, CN R95491 will ... (more)

GTW 6420 (1 of 3 GTW GP40's remaining in service) highballs South past today's L501. A GP40 passing a GP40, doesn't happen too much these days, let alone on a class 1.

GTW 6420 leads an IC SD40-2 southbound, through the passing siding. The leader of the local is WC GP40-2 3009.

A pair of GTW GP38's back down a rickety old branch line that was once used as an interchange track between the ICG and the CGW.

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L56191 has just come back from Rockford. The conductor is walking towward the CN Freeport Yard Office. You can see the old ROCK ISLAND "R" rear of the locomotive, to the right of the "GT" logo. It... (more)

CN switcher returning from East Dubuque

GT GP38-2 #5858 and CN SD75I #5736 sit and await their next assignments at Homewood.

GT SD40 #5922 sits in the deadline at Homewood Yard surrounded by WC SD45s. 5922 has recently lost its numberboards and ditch lights as CN is slowly dismantling it.