The SOU was a heads up property, superbly run. I was in Greensboro on a business trip and one afternoon I was taking in the air on our boxcar unloading platform and a SOU hotshot passed by with Nathan 5-Chime blasting for a nearby road crossing. I was awestruck at the beauty of it all and took the afternoon off to find Pomona Yard and the local hobby shop. I had to look up the name you posted and found she was an actress on the Andy Griffith Show. I never did railfan Mt. Pilot.
A classic pose from Dearborn Station in Chicago 60 years ago. Late afternoon on November 4, 1961. Rodney Peterson collection.
How those Santa Fe F's shine! I was just thinking about how much hobby time there is in modeling that scene. Enough to keep someone busy with happy thoughts for years to come!
Agreed! Although not seen in this photo, images of Santa Fe trains at Dearborn sometimes include less remarked trains of the Monon, Wabash, GTW, Erie and others in the background. Dearborn must have once been a very cool place hang out.
Yeah, I wish this image was larger with high resolution. A lot going on here. From 1966. Ed Dabler collection.
Past issues of Trains Magazine and Railfan & Railroad have shown some excellent shots around Dearborn, woulda' been a great place to watch some action from all those different railroads!
Happily Dearborn still stands, repurposed. Chicago trivia: The station gained its name from Fort Dearborn, the first United States fort in what would become Chicago, built around 1800. Most of my education in IL public schools was of questionable worth, but what I learned in the history classes has somehow stuck.
I'll say. A Trainmaster (or baby) on the left next to the Warbonnets, a road switcher (looks like an Alco except the cab roof doesn't look high enough - Baldwin?) near the center, an Erie E? unit, and a CB&Q? Alco RS-2?, or is it an RS-1? unit on the right. Doug
Didn't the Santa Fe have several FM switchers they used especially here for passenger switching? H12-44 or something like that? That one at left, perhaps an H14-44? Looks like an N&W Geep and to it's right, a GT (GTW) Geep.
Those F-units appear to be in a remarkably pristine condition considering that they were built in 1948.
2 Commuters and an Acela on a grey November afternoon. It was brillian sunny less than 60 minutes earliers. Argh! I'll get a good one for you soon. Escpcially when the snow flies. Maybe I'll even find some freight in the area.
On a very bright and beautiful day with fluffy clouds overhead MBTA shoves inbound at Roslindale Village Station. Taken 3 hours *before* the one in the the post above Good olde New England Weather changed from sunny to cloudy: I am very pleased because I could not see the screen *but* still resisted the desire to zoom in. Much better shot.
Another photo from April 1981 in Greensboro, NC. This neat combination station and yard tower survives in use, but Amtrak has since vacated to a new location.
If you can get to Union IL, the Illinois Railway Museum has one in their collection. https://www.irm.org/gallery/unloadingATSF543
That's a great set of photos, including some of an old Winton V12. Thanks for pointing us in that direction!
