{"id":23794,"date":"2019-01-31T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T12:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23794"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T00:38:26","slug":"illinois-central-sd40-2s-on-wisconsins-byron-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/illinois-central-sd40-2s-on-wisconsins-byron-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Central SD40-2s on Wisconsin\u2019s Byron Hill."},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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The Illinois Central has been part of the Canadian National system for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s remarkable that classic IC SD40-2s (listed as \u2018SD40-3s\u2019 on some rosters presumably owing to changes to the locomotive electrical systems and other upgrades) survive in traditional black paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my travels earlier this month with Chris Guss and Brian Schmidt, I made these photos of a pair of sequentially numbered IC SD40-2s working as rear-end helpers on a southward CN freight ascending Wisconsin Central\u2019s Byron Hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice the GE builders ‘plate’ on the trailing unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Low evening sun and frigid temperatures made for some rosy light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed using my FujiFilm XT1 digital camera with 90mm f2.0 lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made these photos of a pair of sequentially numbered IC SD40-2s working as rear-end helpers on a southward CN freight ascending Wisconsin Central\u2019s Byron Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4537,1586,493,7535,486,132,619],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IC_6202_helper_on_CN__SB_Chruch_Road_Byron_Wis_2019-01-20-23-37-12.jpg?fit=4896%2C3264","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-6bM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23799,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions\/23799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}