Offered without comment:
Abolish Norfolk Southern Camp Cars.

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So, to commemorate the second half of the month, brief commentary on the September 2007 Norfolk Southern Railway calendar photo.

We are treated to a near head-on shot of a mixed freight near Vesuvius, Virginia. NS 9230, one of the railway's ubiquitous GE D9-40CWs, is on the point. The most visible thing is, of course, the locomotive's white striping on the front with the rampant stallion. All lights are functional, so they're nowhere near a grade crossing.

Bob Bahrs, a conductor from Dover, N.J., shot the photograph on the way back from a reception held at the O. Winston Link Museum in the old N&W passenger station in Roanoke.

Originally drafted on 18 September 2007 at 20:26:35.

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This just in, a couple of days late. Apparently, the Canadian Pacific Railway is buying the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad.

Per the CBC, the CPR said late Tuesday it will pay the $1.48 billion in cash, plus contingent future payments of up to US$1 billion based on progress on a long-term DM&E expansion to carry coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.

If this does work, it would help to drive a stake into the BNSF/UP Powder River Basin system. That alone might be worth dropping the flag on the Class II carrier. News as I discover it.

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