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| Title: |
CN ES44AD #2969 |
| Description: |
Approaching the Effingham IL Amtrak depot is Canadian National GE ES44AC #2969, a newcoomer to the RRPA database. This was the third train to pass by the Effingham station in less than an hour. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:18 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 2969(ES44AC) |
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| Title: |
CN ES44AC #2969 |
| Description: |
The massive orange face of the GE unit approaches on its southbound run. Hidden behind the lead unit CN #2969 was CN ET44AC #3144 with only its cab window showing. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:19 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 2969(ES44AC) |
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| Title: |
CN 2ES44AC #969 |
| Description: |
Stretching along the passenger platform is Canadian National ES44AC #2969 with its string of mostly covered hoppers heading south on the former Illinois Central mainline, now just a single track that runs past the former Effingham IL Union Station. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:21 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 2969(ES44AC) |
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13 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CN ET44AC #3144 |
| Description: |
Trailing unit was Canadian National ET44AC #3144 with a long string of covered hoppers behind it. This is the newly rebuilt Wabtec locomotive that meets the EPS's tier 4 emission reductions. Doesn't look much different from the outside thought. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:22 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 3144(ET44AC) |
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7 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound CN ES44AC #2969 & ET44AC #3144 |
| Description: |
The pair of Canadian National locos have just crossed the CN/CSX diamond. The north-south trackage was the Illinois Central mainline, now a CN property, while the double track east-west trackage belongs to CSX now, nee-Vandalia and ex-PRR. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:24 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 2969(ES44AC) CN 3144(ET44AC) |
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14 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound freight crossing the CN(IC)/CSX diamond |
| Description: |
The tail end car passes the signal on the left and the former Effingham, IL, Union Station on the right. The building now houses a cosmotology college while the Amtrak depot shares part of the former IC baggage building with a tattoo parlor. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:25 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
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| Title: |
Straddling the CN(IC)/CSX diamond |
| Description: |
The last car of the southbound CN train straddles the double track of CSX, formerly Vandalia and PRR trackage. |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/2023 Upload Date: 1/1/2025 6:09:26 AM |
| Location: |
Effingham, IL |
| Author: |
Gary Everhart |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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11 Comments: 0 |
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