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| Title: |
Three E7As Blow Their Soot Leaving Chicago Union Station with the CZ |
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After idling in Union Station, the first time the engineer notched up all the built-up soot in the cylinders was blown out as these three elephant-style ladies demonstrated. Photo taken from Roosevelt Road Bridge. The tallest building to the right is the Board of Trade, which today would be obscured by the new and larger Board of Trade Building. The whitish building to the left is the Post Office in the air space above the Stations south tracks. It has a hole through it for Architect Daniel Burnhams Congress Boulevard (Eisenhower, nee Congress, Expressway). |
| Photo Date: |
12/26/1967 Upload Date: 5/18/2007 8:01:20 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Passenger,Track |
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CBQ 9998(E7A) |
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2322 Comments: 9 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9912A (Silver Meteor) and 9912B (Silver Comet) with the EB Morning Zephyr |
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Stainless steel shovel nosed E5ABs were rare when this photo was taken August 21, 1964. Built in March 1940, this matched pair fly the eastbound Morning Zephyr across northern Illinois through the sleepy town of Chadwick just after lunch and a 129 miles from a bumper post in Chicago Union Station. |
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8/21/1964 Upload Date: 10/26/2006 11:49:49 PM |
| Location: |
Chadwick, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CBQ 9912A(E5A) CBQ 9912B(E5B) |
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4363 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway #2536 |
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10/7/1968 Upload Date: 5/9/2007 7:02:01 PM |
| Location: |
Richmond, VA |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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SOU 2536(GP30) |
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1056 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Train #7 |
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Note the extra air hoses and the jumper cable door open. This train is about to become an intermodal train with multiple freight engines upfront and 50 or more piggybacks and other freignt cars behind. Southern decided not to join Amtrak and ran intermodal trains (except for the Southern Cresant) that made station stops. See http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=738818 |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1972 Upload Date: 5/7/2007 1:06:15 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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SOU 6141(FP7A) |
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1333 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southern Ry. President William Graham Claytor, Jr. (March 14, 1912 May 14, 1994) and His Car, His Train, and His Wife(?) |
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If you don't know who he was, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Jr._Claytor Was the lady his wife? The business car in front of his car is North Carolina. The Crescent this night has 5 business cars on the rear end! For other pictures of this train see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=735402 and http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=735400 and http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=736104 |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1969 Upload Date: 5/4/2007 7:42:17 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
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1985 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
SCL 575 with Tr 85 the Everglades, Snow, and a Mail Box in 1969 |
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| Photo Date: |
3/2/1969 Upload Date: 11/24/2006 8:47:04 AM |
| Location: |
Ashland, VA |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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SCL 575(E8A) |
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1165 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
MILW 806 Backing a Rush Hour Train into Union Station |
| Description: |
Note steam generator vents on top of the short hood. Shot from Milwaukee Ave. bridge. The John Hancock Center (building) is to the top left and one of the Marina City towers is in the top right. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1975 Upload Date: 5/1/2007 4:02:28 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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MILW 806(GP9) |
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980 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Two Sun Bleached Noses After Years of Facing West |
| Description: |
Taken three miles west of State Street at Western Avenue Interlocking where the Milwaukee Road tracks from Union Station turn to the north and in the process cross the CNW tracks from its downtown station. Note the double-slip switches and the different signal heads for each road. #49 had an outbound train while #54 was inbound and had just left the interlocking plant. The tall white building in the background was the Standard Oil Building (Big Stan) a couple blocks east of State Street. Big Stan is now called the Aon Center but remains the third tallest building in the United States. |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/1982 Upload Date: 4/24/2007 2:07:44 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 49(F40C) |
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979 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
MILW 907 |
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6/10/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2007 7:31:31 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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MILW 907(S12) |
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1169 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The Pocahontas Making a Station Stop |
| Description: |
Note the steam generator components on the short hood roof and the mid-train dome. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1970 Upload Date: 4/1/2007 8:32:03 PM |
| Location: |
Petersburg, VA |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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NW 504(GP9) NW 519(GP9) |
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2483 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
GM&O 809A Flying White Flags Desgnating an Extra |
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| Photo Date: |
8/15/1965 Upload Date: 3/25/2007 7:34:13 AM |
| Location: |
Springfield, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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GMO 809A(F3A) |
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1619 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
LN 797 with Tr# 3 from Roosevelt Rd. Bridge |
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| Photo Date: |
3/30/1971 Upload Date: 3/15/2007 4:36:03 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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LN 797(E8A) |
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1730 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NKP 21 at Pullman Jct. |
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| Photo Date: |
4/7/1966 Upload Date: 3/15/2007 10:32:25 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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NKP 21(NW2) |
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1688 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Looks Like a Crew Change |
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| Photo Date: |
6/13/1968 Upload Date: 3/13/2007 5:20:53 PM |
| Location: |
Muskogee, OK |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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MKT 75C(F7A) MKT 75B(F9B) MKT 83C(FA1) |
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4412 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
C&EI 1203 Leads Interesting Lash Up and All Box Cars |
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| Photo Date: |
3/31/1964 Upload Date: 3/11/2007 10:41:40 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago Heights, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CEI 1203(F3A) |
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3785 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Come On Guys, Let's Go! Englewood Union Station |
| Description: |
An AB6 had an E6B carbody modified with a single 1000 h.p. engine, windows and controls at one end, baggage compartment, and steam generator. Only two were built by EMD in June 1940 for the Rock Island (#s 750 and 751) for the Rocky Mountain Rocket (Google it). The train would run from Chicago to Limon, CO with an EA-unit on the front and an AB6 second. The train was split at Limon with the AB6 taking a few cars to Colorado Springs and the other unit taking the rest of the cars to Denver. The reverse happened on the trip to Chicago. See: http://www.railroademporium.com/images/stories/ri/rocky-mountain-rocket-lg.jpg. Of course over the years there were variations on this theme. A second diesel was added in the baggage compartment making each a full E-unit. The six pictures I am posting are about how the EA6s lived out there lives in commuter service in Northeastern, Illinois. What is all that piping on the roof? Enjoy! |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1965 Upload Date: 2/25/2007 8:49:09 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CRIP 750(AB6) |
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2916 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Big Ben and the Board of Trade |
| Description: |
This is the departing Quad Cities Rocket with LaSalle Street Station and the Board of Trade at the left edge of the photograph. Big Ben (see http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=660823) the dome-observation-parlor car is on the end of the train where it belongs. |
| Photo Date: |
3/30/1971 Upload Date: 2/23/2007 7:10:32 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CRIP 648(E8A) |
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2036 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Frost on the Ties at Brainerd this Morning 42 Years Ago |
| Description: |
Check out the light for the crossbucks. Commuters are crossing the street to get on the front cars when the train stops. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1964 Upload Date: 2/20/2007 11:39:29 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CRIP 494(RS3) |
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1822 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CRI&P 2, Englewood Union Station |
| Description: |
An EMD intercity failure ends its days at age 10 downgraded to commuter service, not a good application of a train with few and narrow doors. There are actually three additional RI trains in the distance in this picture. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1965 Upload Date: 2/16/2007 3:33:39 PM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CRIP 2(LWT-12) |
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2895 Comments: 11 |
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| Title: |
AT&SF 505 and Seven Others Pull on the "Loop" |
| Description: |
No tresspassing signs make this picture imposible to take today. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1992 Upload Date: 1/17/2007 6:32:07 PM |
| Location: |
Walong, CA |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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ATSF 505(B40-8W) ATSF 520(B40-8W) |
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1557 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9208 Has Its "Way" in 1964 |
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| Photo Date: |
8/21/1964 Upload Date: 12/6/2006 11:56:23 AM |
| Location: |
Sterling, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CBQ 9208(NW2) |
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1945 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q SD24 #501 Heads Some New GP30s and Freight |
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| Photo Date: |
7/2/1965 Upload Date: 11/30/2006 9:35:31 PM |
| Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 501(SD24) |
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2006 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 165ABC in 1965 |
| Description: |
Early F units usually came in set of 4, i.e., ABBA. The CB&Q found that for most trains on its mostly flat railroad ABA sets were sufficient so the ABBAs were broken into ABs with another newer A added. On the CB&Q an ABBA set was lettered ABCD and an ABA set was lettered ABC. In this picture we see CB&Q 165A, an F7A and 165B and C, F3B and A. Is this the A end or the C end? |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1965 Upload Date: 11/14/2006 8:24:48 PM |
| Location: |
Eola, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 165A(F7A) CBQ 165B(F3B) CBQ 165C(F3A) |
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2189 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
CRI&P 630 in 1965 |
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Arguably the most beautiful diesel locomotives ever made were the EMD shovel nosed E5As and E6As. Here April 21, 1965's morning sun makes the 24 year old Rock Island E6A 630 looks almost new. She is crossing the PRR diamonds at Englewood Union Station on Chicago's south side with a SB commuter train. Pigs are on another RI track. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1965 Upload Date: 11/6/2006 11:17:50 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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CRIP 630(E6A) |
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4969 Comments: 9 |
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| Title: |
For Box Car Fans |
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Looking like a mixed train because of the 40 ft. combine on the rear this day instead of a way car (CB&Q jargon for caboose), this is the Oregon Turn with NW2 9234 doing the pulling. It near Rochelle, IL on September 5, 1964 while making its round trip between Oregon, IL and the Eola, IL yards on the line to the Twin Cities. All the corn stalks in the field have been cut. |
| Photo Date: |
9/5/1964 Upload Date: 11/5/2006 11:21:57 PM |
| Location: |
Rochelle, IL |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9234(NW2) |
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1351 Comments: 4 |
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