In one of the top power sets of the year, two CMQ SD40-2F's lead a CSX intermodal across northern Indiana.

Well this was epic. Q165-20, the miracle train, created mass hysteria across the CSX Great Lakes Division when word got out about two Central Maine and Quebec barns were leading the train. The amo... (more)

Destined to Maine, Canadian Pacific 250 is departing Farnham on a steamy afternoon.

Canadian Pacific intermodal 143 makes its way over the CSX Belt Sub in Buffalo, New York with a pair of Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2F's on the point. One of the many Buffalo statues that stand ac... (more)

On June 21st, 2020, the day after the pair of CMQ barns lead train Q165 across CSX, Buffalo was treated to another barn leader in the form of CMQ 9023 leading CP train 246, the Frontier yard trans... (more)

In may be one of the strangest sights I've ever seen, a pair of CMQ SD40-2Fs, along with one of CP's military units, reverse light at Scott Street in Franklin Park. With the Sears Tower providing ... (more)

Pinch me. I must be dreaming. Defying all odds, CMQ SD40-2F 9020 curves into Welland, Ont., with Montreal to Chicago train no. 143 and a surreal lashup including sister SD40-2F 9022, CP 8013, 7023... (more)

The Barns are back! For how long, who knows. Nonetheless, it's pretty incredible seeing these ol' girls singing out their inevitable swan song on original home rails. After CP 8013 lost function o... (more)

Q165 Riding the sunshine across Lake Erie’s Wine country with a pair of CM&Q’s leading.

On June 21st, 2020, the SD40-2F made its grand return to the midwest, in the form of CP 143 (CSX Q165). Up until this day, no one ever expected a CM&Q SD40-2F to venture out to the midwest.

Canadian Pacific train 143 (Montreal, QC - Buffalo, NY) has a pair of Central Maine and Quebec EMD SD40-2F's leading a GE AC44CM rebuild and CP 7023 the Air Force Heritage unit, providing for an u... (more)

CSX Q165 cruises over the Indiana Harbor Canal with a pair of CMQ SD40-2Fs leading. I never would’ve thought a pair of former CP red barns would make their way to the Windy City in this day and ... (more)

Canadian Pacific intermodal 143 ended up with quite the unusual pair of lead units in the form of a pair of Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2F's as it made it's morning run into Buffalo over the CN St... (more)

253 heads north through Port Henry with a CMQ barn on the point.

Passing over the Mohawk River between Waterford and Cohoes, CP train D48 heads north from Kenwood Yard on their way back to Saratoga Springs, with CMQ 9023 on the point.