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News photos: First CPKC locomotives go to work

By Trains Staff | May 28, 2024

| Last updated on August 1, 2025


After debut in Kansas City, first unit heads north in revenue service

Freshly painted red and black diesels with gold trim and white letters
The first repainted CPKC units lead train M251 at Nahant, Iowa, on May 25, 2024. Jeremy J. Schrader

After making its public debut on May 18 at a Final Spike Steam Tour event in Kansas City, CPKC ES44AC No. 9375 — the first locomotive to wear the railroad’s new paint scheme — is now in revenue service. Paired with sister ES44AC KCS No. 4805, also repainted into the new scheme, the locomotive was photographed leading Kansas City, Mo., to St. Paul, Minn., train 251 at Nahant, Iowa, on Saturday, May 25.

— Updated May 29 at 9 a.m. with corrected information.

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