TRAINS in the RAIN

Peirce Jul 10, 2005

  1. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    If CPKC ever does "Heritage" units, can only imaging the Milwaukee Road version, lol!
     
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  2. CardboardNoWheels

    CardboardNoWheels TrainBoard Member

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    IC 2720 on the point with a load of empty potash cars headed north through Des Plaines, IL yesterday. The white spots are the rain on my window.

    This is just north of where the Milwaukee Road, Soo and CNW lines intersect; also in Des Plaines. This used to be the Soo line, so I'm not sure how CN acquired it. It is definitely CN track though. On the other side of the train is 10 or so CN trucks, working on the signals for the route 12 and route 58 crossing signals.[​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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  3. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    In that neck of the woods, any ex-Soo tracks would have been spun off into the "new" Wisconsin Central, which CN acquired 14 years later. Only a few years after spinning off the WC trackage, Soo was completely taken over by what was then called CP, now CPKC.

    CN, CPKC, SOO, WC, IC... You need a program to keep up with the alphabet soup of mergers, spin-offs, re-mergers, acquisitions...:confused:

    Makes reality shows look like sitcoms...:ROFLMAO:
     
  4. CardboardNoWheels

    CardboardNoWheels TrainBoard Member

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    Thanks Mike, that definitely answers some questions. However, now I'm a bit confused. Does Soo or CPKC or CN operate the old MILW line just east of this CN line? How about the line from Chi to Elgin? I thought Soo bought those lines out of bankruptcy. I remember seeing Soo locos on the Elgin line as a child in the late 80s.

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  5. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    The tracks that you're seeing are part of CN's Waukesha subdivision. In Des Plaines, just east of there I can see UP's Harvard sub, with Metra next to it. CN crosses the Harvard sub a little north of Des Plaines.

    The Elgin-Chicago line is CPKC Elgin sub. It leads through CPKC's big yard at Bensenville on the way to Chicago.

    There are a lot of Canuckians around Chicago...:ROFLMAO:
     
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  6. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Today in the rain at Cedar Park, Texas. Parking the diesel with a load of new ties behind. They had already unloaded two car loads.
     
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  7. Hardcoaler

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    Thank you Mike. I grew up in Chicagoland, but moved away nearly 45 years ago and get confused as to who owns what these days. In my day, the busy C&NW/MILW/Soo junction at Des Plaines was protected by Deval Tower, as seen here on 07/03/1984. Deval is gone today.

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  8. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Deval Interlocking from the mid-1970s. As seen in the distance and in the photo below, semaphore signals were still in wide use here.

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  9. Hardcoaler

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    Another from 07/03/1984. That's the single track Soo crossing the three track C&NW Harvard Sub. The train is inbound to Chicago ..... running on the left hand main of course. :love:

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  10. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Northbound MILW on the joint MILW/C&NW freight line crossing the C&NW Harvard Sub. Out of sight to the right, the train is also crossing the Soo.

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    Northbound MILW approaching the interlocking.

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  11. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Three-of-a-kind, you win!
     
  12. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    The biggest steam event in recent North Dakota history is merely dampened by a steady downpour:
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  13. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    A little rain won't deter me from something like that, either!:)
     
  14. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Someone was following us, way back in the distance you can see a headlight. October 6, 2018.
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  15. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. March, 2015.
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  16. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Beautiful architecture around that station. Love that clock tower!(y)
     
  17. kevsmith

    kevsmith TrainBoard Member

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    Amtral FP40H #220 in a downpour

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    Union Pacific SD40-2R #3249 and SD40-2 #3613 just about to block all the crossings in town. At 15mph max it took a long time to clear out of the way

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    Those dots on the left hand side was a stream of water coming off the station roof!

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    Kev
     
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  18. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    The rain finally let up but was still sprinkling here. You can see a few drops on the puddles. Prince Rupert, BC Canada.
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    West Glacier, MT, Nov 2024

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  20. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Hiding from the rain in Tower 17 at the Rosenberg Railroad Museum, where it now resides, some action on the BNSF Galveston Sub and UP Sunset Route. April 2018.
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