{"id":4523,"date":"2013-11-14T05:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T10:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2013-11-12T23:55:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T04:55:35","slug":"daily-post-brand-new-canadian-national-general-electric-locomotives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/daily-post-brand-new-canadian-national-general-electric-locomotives\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Post: Brand New Canadian National General Electric Locomotives"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCN\u2019s Latest Alternating Current Traction Diesels ply the old Wisconsin Central.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the fading light of a November 2013 evening three new Canadian National GE-built ES44ACs pass the Metra station at Round Lake, Illinois. Canon EOS 7D photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There\u2019s nothing like a shiny new locomotive; It will never look any better. Best of all, it\u2019s really something new, not just the \u2018same-old, same-old.\u2019<\/p>\n

Last week, Chris Guss and I were working CN\u2019s former Wisconsin Central Limited lines in Illinois and Wisconsin where CN\u2019s latest locomotives were plying the rails.<\/p>\n

Until very recently, CN was the last major North American freight railroad to refrain from AC traction technology. First used on wide-scale by Burlington Northern beginning in 1993, by the late-1990s most big railroads had at least sampled AC traction diesels. Yet, CN kept ordering DC traction. But not anymore; today AC’s are the latest thing even on CN!<\/p>\n

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New ES44ACs lead a freight near Theresa, Wisconsin on November 8, 2013. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"New<\/a>
New CN General Electric diesels with M34241-07 with a freight some 9,300 feet long (weighing an estimated 17,000 tons). Another new GE was cut-in mid-train working as a radio controlled ‘distributed power unit.’
This train is holding at Marsh siding for a northward train. Lumix LX3 photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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CN\u2019s new ES44DCs look good working in pairs in the rolling Midwestern countryside.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few photos I made over a two-day period in early November 2013.<\/p>\n

On our second day, Pat Yough joined us for some of the photos and we also met up with Iowa-based Craig Williams near Fond du Lac while waiting for southward CN ES44ACs to emerge from some trees.<\/p>\n

We were all on our way to one of the Midwest\u2019s premier railway photography venues: Beecherfest (held near Milwaukee every year).<\/p>\n

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