Kansas City Southern de México "Gray Ghost" on the CPKC Paynesville Sub

Kansas City Southern de México "Gray Ghost" on the CPKC Paynesville Sub
"Gray Ghost" KCSM 4543 pulls CPKC 647 through the Medina sag on the Paynesville Subdivision followed by a 2nd train powered by two Norfolk Southern GE's.
Locomotive Power:
KCSM 4543 - GE AC4400CW
CP 8743 - GE ES44AC
NS 4461 - Rebuilt GE AC44C6M Built As: NS 9219 (C40-9W)
NS 8018 - GE ES44AC
00:00 Open
00:10 KCS 4543
02:29 NS 4461
Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V. (reporting mark KCSM) was a Mexican railroad and operating subsidiary of Kansas City Southern (KCS). The company was founded in 1996 as Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (reporting mark TFM), a joint venture between KCS and Transportación Maritima Mexicana after the companies won a concession from the Mexican government to operate the 5,335-kilometer (3,315 mi) Northeast Railroad connecting Monterrey and Mexico City with a US port of entry at Laredo, Texas and seaports at Lázaro Cárdenas and Veracruz. In 2005, KCS bought out its partner's shares in the railroad, giving it full control.
Canadian Pacific Railway purchased KCS in December 2021 for US$31 billion. On April 14, 2023, the railroads merged to form CPKC Railway, the first and only railroad to directly serve Canada, Mexico and the United States.
The Paynesville Subdivision or Paynesville Sub is a railway line that runs about 118 miles (190 km) from Glenwood to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The line is operated by Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) under the Soo Line Railroad, its US subsidiary. Construction on the line began in 1886 by the Minneapolis & Pacific Railway (which later merged with the Soo Line) which intended to build a railroad out to the Dakotas to supply grain to flour mills in Minneapolis. The line starts out at CP University and continues westward through the Humboldt Yard and crosses the BNSF Monticello Subdivision just east of the junction with MN&S Spur in Crystal. Then the line continues northwest through many small towns on its way to Glenwood.
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[@LinesideSouthEast]

Great video, very well filmed and edited.

[@MNRails]

Thank you very much!

[@sernajrlouis]

Awesome grey ghost. Cool video and channel just subscribed

[@MNRails]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CCXCreate]

Javie loves Gray Ghosts!

[@FishBone911]

My conductor: "Are we in some kind of slow order I don't know about?"

[@MNRails]

Indeed.

[@AndrewOsborne]

Shawn. You need to take this down. If CPKC finds this, they can find the crew and suspend them. They don’t have their ditch lights on.

[@LanternSignals]

Easy to miss the ditch light breaker on that unit. I’ve run the 4543 several times.