A B/W 400mm view from Lonetree at the imposing elevators at Berthold, ND. Eastbound stacks and intermodal traffic races east:
Here's another bit of Chicago railroading from my old b&w negatives, this from June 1975 where we see the Skokie Swift as operated by the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority). This line was once operated by the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee and placed in operation in 1925. The North Shore quit in '63, but the CTA picked up the line and a year later established the Skokie Swift trains with success. The line is still operated today, but the catenary is gone and replaced with third rail. Because of it's North Shore lineage, it was the only line with catenary on the CTA.
The single CTA cars are from the 1-50 series. I was talking about the Illinois Railway Museum a few posts ago, but my favorite museum has to be the Fox River Trolley Museum. It is a small museum, but they have some nice stuff if you guys like interurban cars. They have 3 of the Skokie Line 1-50 cars out there that they run on their tracks too. They still use the trolley pole on the roof, which is a little strange to see compared to the other CTA stock still in Chicago.
A couple teasers from the BMRC tour of the UP steam shop on April 28, 2018. Looking down the boiler! Front drivers, as viewed from above. Yellow lines are all new lubrication lines! View down the side of the 844, showing clean out ports. Clean out ports are stainless steel DOG FOOD bowls! More here; http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?media/albums/steam-tour-2018.3241/
Amen to that! There's a century of development and progress sitting there, getting more power, more efficiently, more speed, etc. Absolutely majestic.
The “in progress” views are of the 4014. The others are of the 844. The 3985 is parked in the roundhouse right next door. Not quite sure where the E units are kept. Think they’re kept in the roundhouse as well. The E8/9B was outside, on the east side of the steam shop.
What’s really gonna be interesting, is that the BigBoy is supposed to be complete, and operating by May of 2019!! In time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, UT.
That rings a bell (pardon the pun) with me. I might have seen it long ago, somehow part of the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin? I also remember a museum in East Troy, WI.
It was part of the CA&E. The museum’s tracks were part of the branch line to the Elgin Mental Health Center. It shut down in the 60’s (I think) and I heard it was used to carry coal to the hospital’s boiler. The Museum was founded in 1961 as RELIC (Railway Equipment Leasing and Investment Company).
I darn sure will try my damnedest to attend. That'll give my new hip a year to get accustomed to behaving itself. Heck, it only took its sibling 6 months. My only experience with articulated compound power was being awed by three Y6s with an eastbound coal drag in 1957 while standing on the Roanoke station platform. OK, 4014 is just a simplex, but it still is the most humongous piece of living breathing machinery I'll ever see.
I have been told that soon after my family moved to Tucson in 1956 that we saw a very large articulated locomotive on the SP there. I seem to have a memory of it but it could be a "false memory" perpetuated by my evil older brothers. It would have probably been an AC-10 if it were true.
