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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Progressive Rail, Inc
Model:Rebuilt EMD SD40M-2Built As:UP 3613 (SD45)
Serial Number:33422Order No:7975
Frame Number:7975-14Built:4/1968
Notes:nee UP 3613 > 13 > 63 Sd45R > UP 4758 Sd40m-2 > Cefx/Citx/Mvpx 2806 >PGR 41
Other locos with this serial:  CEFX 2808(SD40M-2) CITX 2808(SD40M-2) UP 4758(SD40M-2) MVPX 2808(SD40M-2) PGR 41(SD40M-2) UP 63(SD45R)
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This one's lineage is uncertain - but it's headed to shuffle sand on the Wisconsin Northern with sibling #43.
Title:  This one's lineage is uncertain - but it's headed to shuffle sand on the Wisconsin Northern with sibling #43.
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2018  Upload Date: 6/15/2018 4:57:06 PM
Location:  Gurnee, IL
Author:  Andrew Heraver
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
PGR 41 is headed to play in the sand on the Wisconsin Northern
Title:  PGR 41 is headed to play in the sand on the Wisconsin Northern
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2018  Upload Date: 6/16/2018 1:32:27 AM
Location:  Wauwatosa, WI
Author:  Edward Weisensel
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  423   Comments: 1
mPRVP-14 gets rolling just after 8 pm
Title:  mPRVP-14 gets rolling just after 8 pm
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/2018  Upload Date: 6/16/2018 1:34:43 AM
Location:  Wauwatosa, WI
Author:  Edward Weisensel
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 2028(GP20D) UP 8545(SD70ACe) UP 2337(SD60M) UP 2628(ET44AH) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  391   Comments: 1
After pulling sand cars at NIS, the set of four blue EMDs heads south
Title:  After pulling sand cars at NIS, the set of four blue EMDs heads south
Description:  One of two PGR ex-CITX former SD45s on the WN. Another is on Watco's Wisconsin and Southern as WAMX 4223. The CEFX 3117 third out was also once an SD45, but has had its 20-cylinder 645 replaced with the 16-cylinder version.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/21/2018 8:00:28 PM
Location:  Chetek, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  323   Comments: 1
The SB WN sand train now has a pickup at Piranha Proppant
Title:  The SB WN sand train now has a pickup at Piranha Proppant
Description:  The SW1500s have shoved clear to allow the road power to access the loop track. This is the second-northernmost of four sand plants located from just south of Chetek to New Auburn.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/21/2018 8:12:40 PM
Location:  Chetek, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 42(SD38-2) CEFX 3117(SD40M-2) CEFX 3182(SD40-2) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
Pulling their Piranha Proppant pickup south onto the main
Title:  Pulling their Piranha Proppant pickup south onto the main
Description:  Alliteration, anyone? They have to pull the tail end clear of the crossover switch, then shove back to combine these with the cars they pulled from NIS.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/21/2018 9:27:39 PM
Location:  Chetek, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  360   Comments: 1
PGR 41 leads the hefty SB sand train
Title:  PGR 41 leads the hefty SB sand train
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/21/2018 9:30:35 PM
Location:  Chetek, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  326   Comments: 2
PGR 41 shoves its Piranha Proppant pickup onto the rest of the train
Title:  PGR 41 shoves its Piranha Proppant pickup onto the rest of the train
Description:  On a gravel driveway to yet another sand plant just south of Piranha (I think it's called Chieftain Sand and Proppant, the Google Maps labels vs. the signs I actually saw are confusing), which is also blocked by parked sand hoppers. There are reports of impending doom for the recently booming northwest Wisconsin frac sand industry, but the WN seems to be doing fine for now.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:05:53 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  247   Comments: 1
Four blue EMDs pass a green one and a yellow one
Title:  Four blue EMDs pass a green one and a yellow one
Description:  This photo encapsulates exactly why a visit to the WN was on my bucket list. Have I mentioned it was absolute nirvana for a fan of classic, colorful standard cab EMD power like myself? After making pickups at the northernmost two of the four closely spaced sand plants, this train bypassed the southern two including Superior Silica here at New Auburn.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:08:56 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2) CITX 3069(SD40-2)
Views:  323   Comments: 1
PGR 41 (and three more) southbound
Title:  PGR 41 (and three more) southbound
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:11:28 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  277   Comments: 2
PGR 41 and its three assistants growl and snort through town
Title:  PGR 41 and its three assistants growl and snort through town
Description:  Two of the four units on this train are former SD45s rebuilt to SD40-2 specifications. CEFX 3182 second out is a straight SD40-2, and PGR 42 4th out is an SD38-2.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:14:21 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  256   Comments: 1
Over the hills and far away
Title:  Over the hills and far away
Description:  With a row of trees between the tracks and the parallel County Highway SS, there are few vantage points on this part of the WN other than at the grade crossings.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:22:29 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  223   Comments: 2
PGR 41 crosses Duncan Creek north of town
Title:  PGR 41 crosses Duncan Creek north of town
Description:  I had photographed at this crossing a year ago, but in near-darkness. There was a horse paddock nearby, and I was hoping I could frame them up with the train on the bridge, but they ran to the other side.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:24:32 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  249   Comments: 1
Cloud-boinked
Title:  Cloud-boinked
Description:  The leaden sky of the morning was brightening as the clouds gradually broke up and scattered. I had about ten minutes of solid bright sunshine as I waited here, but of course seconds before the train arrived, a thick hunk of cumulus cloud blew in front of the sun. Seconds after the lead unit passed, it moved on and bathed the scene in bright light once again as if to taunt me.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:26:14 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  250   Comments: 1
Now yer talkin'!
Title:  Now yer talkin'!
Description:  Now the sun was out to stay, illuminating the handsome dark blue locomotive as the train ambled on out of Bloomer.
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:28:52 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  328   Comments: 1
PGR 41 leading a sand train to Norma, crossing 157th Avenue south of town
Title:  PGR 41 leading a sand train to Norma, crossing 157th Avenue south of town
Description:  My parting shot of this train. What could get me to break off a chase of a sharp-looking SD45 carbody in finally-good light? Earlier while at the bridge in downtown Bloomer, I'd heard UP 1989, the Rio Grande Heritage Unit, get a track warrant on the Chippewa Falls Sub (same line as the WN, from Norma south to Eau Claire)!
Photo Date:  10/19/2018  Upload Date: 10/26/2018 2:31:58 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Andre Wehrle
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  316   Comments: 1
CITX 3064 L1
Title:  CITX 3064 L1
Description:  L1 puts empties away at Chieftan Sands at 0830.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:43:05 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2) PGR 40(SD39)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
CITX 3064 L1 (2)
Title:  CITX 3064 L1 (2)
Description:  L1 continues north towards Chetek with two cars at 0847.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:43:08 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2) PGR 40(SD39)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
CITX 3064 L1 (3)
Title:  CITX 3064 L1 (3)
Description:  3 1/2 Avenue at 0850.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:43:11 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2) PGR 40(SD39)
Views:  189   Comments: 0
CITX 3064 L1 (4)
Title:  CITX 3064 L1 (4)
Description:  L1 shuffles cars around at Northern Industrial Sands at 0921.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:43:46 PM
Location:  Chetek, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2) PGR 40(SD39)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
PGR 41
Title:  PGR 41
Description:  Built April 1968 as UP 3613.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:43:49 PM
Location:  Chetek, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1
Title:  PGR 40 L1
Description:  L1 approaches a pickup at Chieftan at 1105.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:44:45 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  152   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (2)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (2)
Description:  Post pickup, L1 now has a little more than 100 sand loads in tow, plus a few mixed empties, rolling away from New Auburn at 1258.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:44:51 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  179   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (3)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (3)
Description:  Main Street at 1326.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:45:59 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  171   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (4)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (4)
Description:  97th Street at 1334.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:46:01 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (5)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (5)
Description:  97th Street at 1337.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:46:04 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  154   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (6)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (6)
Description:  125th Street at 1352.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:46:07 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (7)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (7)
Description:  WI 124 at 1413.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:47:54 PM
Location:  Eagle Point, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
PGR 40 L1 (8)
Title:  PGR 40 L1 (8)
Description:  95th Avenue at 1422.
Photo Date:  3/21/2019  Upload Date: 4/2/2019 11:48:29 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Der Langsame
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
PGR 42
Title:  PGR 42
Description:  PGR 42
Photo Date:  5/3/2023  Upload Date: 7/9/2023 6:06:09 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 42(SD38-2) PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
PGR 41
Title:  PGR 41
Description:  PGR 41
Photo Date:  5/3/2023  Upload Date: 7/9/2023 6:06:26 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
PGR 41
Title:  PGR 41
Description:  PGR 41
Photo Date:  5/3/2023  Upload Date: 7/9/2023 6:07:04 PM
Location:  New Auburn, WI
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 41(SD40M-2) PGR 42(SD38-2)
Views:  96   Comments: 0


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