USA Pics

[BigDan]

A CN local pulls into Lamport, MS a few days before the branch is to be sold to its new operator Lamport Northern. Originally owned by the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio, the branch runs through 32 miles of pines and swampland between Damphousse, MS and Lamport, MS. Once a fairly busy mainline, the branch's traffic has dwindled after the IC was absorbed by CN.

 

[WCL]

A CN local pulls into Lamport, MS a few days before the branch is to be sold to its new operator Lamport Northern. Originally owned by the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio, the branch runs through 32 miles of pines and swampland between Damphousse, MS and Lamport, MS. Once a fairly busy mainline, the branch's traffic has dwindled after the IC was absorbed by CN.

Yeah, if only it looked like that with that sky in trainz

 

[maxwerks]

PCS 3801 and GMTX 400 working on Plainsman Switching Company rails in Lubbock, Texas...

 

[Hemler]

Messing around in 2022

https://imgur.com/a/iEZy1zK

 

[pdkoester]

 

[BigDan]

The daily Lamport Northern turn known affectionately by employees as "The Lampy" crosses Main Street in Lamport, MS behind two leased SD40-2s.

 

[BigDan]

One more picture of the progress I've made at Lamport, MS. Here's a CN local backing down the yard lead and across Main Street.

 

[maxwerks]

A few more pics of GMTX 400 working around the Plainsman Switching Company yard in the sunshine...

And in the rain...

 

[BigDan]

The Lamport Northern's daily turn crosses Main Street behind a leased HLCX SD40-2 and LMX B39-8 as a line of thunderstorms roll in from the Gulf.

 

[Mothebunny]

The times are a changin

 

[Hemler]

 

[BigDan]

RI GP18s 1345 and 1343 along with GP9 1331 work the GM&O interchange at Lamport, MS in June of 1977. The Rock's branch from the west would eventually be abandoned, along with GM&O's main south of town.

 

[UP5521]

These former Southern Pacific Railroad 2-8-2 mk-7 steam locomotives instead of being scrapped were sold to the Tidewater Western Railroad and reclassified mk-63 , one of these was seen taking on additional oil and water.

 

[WCL]

CP Train 247 (Bensenville, IL to Pig's Eye Yard - St. Paul, MN) Shot between Bensenville, IL. and Rondout, IL.

 

[BigDan]

An ICG manifest rolls north through the swamps near Hackett, MS. If you had told locals that Canadian National would eventually own this trackage, you would have received some strange looks...

 

[Hemler]

XSG-10B Going through CP Canal

 

[Dermmy]

 

[UP5521]

usually, a 2-8-2 Mikado or a much larger steam engine would handle a train like this one, but today there was trouble on the horizon, one of the recently acquired former Southern Pacific Railroad mk-7 now mk-63 oil-fired Mikado fleet members was having issues with its firebox, so a smaller steamer such as this 4-6-0 locomotive was called up to fill-in until the original engine was repaired and back in service.

 

[mnrr]

 

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