Gray Ghost

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Gray Ghost
Gray Ghost

Just another in the endless cycle of trains that pulled up here and parked.

There is a reason CPKC is making the massive investment in a second parallel bridge over the Rio Grande and this is an example. There was never a moment when I was in town that I didn't observe at least two or three trains queued up side by side in Union Pacific's ex MoPac yard just north of the bridge. And this was only what I could see, not whatever was held in sidings north of the city or up at UP's big Port Laredo yard and then of course CPKC had all their own trains staged. 24 hrs a day something was crossing the bridge one way or the other and it was clear that the KCS was right in their decision to make this investment with train counts constantly maxing out the 26 per day capacity.

Seen pulling up to tied down just north of the Zaragoza Street grade crossing across from the yard office in the old MoPac station is the MEWMX 28 (manifest Englewood Yard to CPKC de México in Laredo). A pair of rebuilt UP C44ACMs (orignally GE AC4400CWs) bracket unrebuilt KCSM 4564, a 24 yr old AC440CW built as TFM 2664 and still wearing its weather beaten gray ghost paint job.

Laredo, Texas
Wednesday May 29, 2024

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Taken on: May 29, 2024
Sets appears in:   • Union Pacific Railroad    • Texas   
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