Category Archives: Trips – 2024

New Trip – Chasing Colorado Pacific

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Back on March 4, 2024, I decided to go for a drive. Having not been down to check on Colorado Pacific for a while, I decided I’d head out along the Towner Line and see if I could find anything moving. If nothing else, I’d get a few more photos of the SD40-2s before they got replaced with the SD70MACs being refurbished in Alamosa.

Lo and behold, I caught up with an eastbound just before Haswell with CXR 1964 in the lead and 22 trailing empty grain hoppers. I spent the rest of the day following the move all the way out to Stuart at the east end of the line, making what I could of an eastbound move in ever-worsening afternoon light.

While I edited the pictures and posted them a few other places that evening, I hadn’t gotten around to uploading them here, so here’s the trip report.

Eastbound out of Sheridan Lake

New Trip – A Rainy Day with CP 2816

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I haven’t posted a lot of stuff lately, not for lack of railfanning, but for lack of time to do anything except dump it on the computer and get back to work. However, I decided that in the interest of timeliness, I’d post the few shots that I got of Canadian Pacific 2816 coming through Iowa about a month ago. I spent a day in the rain on May 9 following it from Savanna, IL, to Davenport, IA, as it worked its way south from Calgary all the way to Mexico City. Click here to go see the few shots I got from the day.

Sometimes you stand in the rain for three hours and think you’re going to get screwed by a local blocking the shot, but at the last minute everything comes together.