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  1. Akirasho

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    C&NW Bi-Level No.1 was found at Barrington, IL on a snowy day in March 1979. She was the first in an order of only 16 cars from St. Louis Car in 1955. Amazingly, these early cars were seen pulled by steam. The road's fleet eventually grew to nearly 300 cars with additional orders to Pullman Standard, including a quantity specially designed for lengthy routes far from Chicago.

    The C&NW ran a superb commuter service -- fast, clean, affordable and on schedule. My father rode their trains daily for 16 years and I rode them plenty too. What could be better than riding a train to Chicago to visit hobby shops?

    1979-03-24 COACH CNW Barrington IL - for upload.jpg
     
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  3. Doug Gosha

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    Wow! you can say that again and those are NEAT cars!

    I only ever got to go to one Chicago hobby shop and I can't remember its name. It was in Itasca (a west-of-downtown suburb) and across the street from the Holiday Inn I was staying at during a business trip in 2009. It was there I bought a duplicate of my late older brother's Tyco Santa Fe cigar band F9 he got in a train set in 1961 and which had been gone for years.

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    Ex-MILW GP40 #2026. I believe it ended up with the UP. I wonder if she still exists?
     
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    SD60-3(rebuilt from an ex SOO) CP 6306 leading 474 across the Yellow River Bridge north of Marquette, IA.

    July 25, 2020


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    ZG2LT-26 rolls by Otis with UP 1111 second out.
    July 26, 2020


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  7. Kurt Moose

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    Nice to see a couple of SD40-2's still gettin' 'er done!!(y)(y)(y)

    Really long freight for 6,600 HP!:D
     
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    CP 4612, but at work, I cannot check my usual roster links. It doesn't seem to still be rostered by CP.

     
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    Three Amtrak cars as seen in Montgomery, AL. Lounge car Betsy Ross was built by Budd in 1952 for the PRR, retired July 1995 [seen 10/1989]. Sleeper Pacific Patrol (an awesome name!) was built for the UP about 1949. It's since been renamed Pacific Cape (boooo) and serves as some sort of ATK company service car [seen 11/1989]. The Observation was a private car for Anheuser-Busch built in 1954 by the WAB in their shops. Unusual skirting. It's off the roster. [seen 10/1984]

    1989-10-27 LOUNGE ATK Montgomery AL - for upload.jpg 1989-11-19 SLEEPER ATK Montgomery AL - for upload.jpg 1984-10-10 OBSERVATION ATK Montgomery AL - for upload.jpg
     
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    Train - CSX 7625-IMG_1998 (05262010).jpg

    Train - CSX 2304-IMG_2436 (06042010).jpg
     
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    "Foxholm Canola 199"
    A few miles north of Foxholm, ND, CP train 199 struggles to make track speed on the gentle Des Lacs River valley grade west of Minot on the CP Portal Sub.

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    My local hobby shop. Been going there for years!

    https://www.americasbesttrain.com/
     
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    With a friendly Geoffrey The Giraffe emblazoned on the side, a Toys R Us trailer makes its way through Howells Interlocking in Atlanta, GA in August 1994. What's weird is that there's no SCAC code or stenciling on the trailer. It's brand new, so maybe it was being transported from the manufacturer to Toys R Us.

    1994-08-20 TRAILER TOYSRUS HOWELLS [ATLANTA] GA - for upload.jpg
     
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  14. Doug Gosha

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    Yeah, that's it! They have a lot of stuff there. I also bought the old Heljan N scale coal tower and, I believe, another building kit.

    Doug
     
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    On July 16th, there were no trains rolling across the double track main between Dunlap and Jefferson, IA. Just parked with crew and waiting for the "go lights." PIC_0284.JPG PIC_0286.JPG PIC_0291.JPG PIC_0295.JPG And these were the reason! The majority of the equipment and crews were down in a cut east of Denison, IA at the time, but I was able to watch these two pieces working...



     
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    "Peekaboo at Ten-Six"
    H-NTWPAS rolls around the curve near CP10.6 as an eastbound intermodal drifts downgrade.

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    On my last layout, I super elevated the largest, prominent and sweeping curve (the first thing you saw of the layout). It was neat seeing four SD-40 2's, leaning into that curve with a long string of cars in tow! I miss it. :cry:

    I forget to mention that it was DOUBLE TRACKS!
     
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    In imaginative strokes of adaptation, the SOU turned an FT-B into a scale test car [Spartanburg, SC - 11/1989] and the Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern turned an RS-11 into a snowplow [Donovan, IL - 10/1990].

    1989-11-24 SCALE SOU Spartanburg SC - for upload.jpg 1990-10-26 PLOW TPW Donovan IL - for upload.jpg
     
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  19. HemiAdda2d

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    Shortline and regional roads were often the most inventive and used whatever they had available to fill their needs. The two above photos are pure proof of this. Thanks for sharing!
     
  20. Akirasho

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    kind of sad to see the Alco... wonder where it is now?
     
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