Two E7s speed the Morning Zephyr from the Twin Cities to Chicago in 1964. Chadwick is 120 miles from Chicago so it won't be long.
Chicago Burlington and Quincy E5A 9915B leads the Galesburg Local (Train #2) at 9:45 a.m. (9 minutes late) at Sandwich, Illinois (56 miles west of Chicago--due there at 10:45) on July 5, 1963. EMD... (more)
NP 155 is a SW 1200. You're looking at two grand old ladies, both beautiful in there own way.
Demoted to a yard switcher in Clinton, Iowa, EMD-Pullman built CB&Q Doodlebug 9769 rests in the sun on New Years Day 1966. The opposite end is also painted red and yellow for reverse running, see:... (more)
The second switcher is 9401A. Both of these switchers were built in 1949 as TR2s. The cows with cabs were numbered with an A. The cabless calf's number ended in B. They were rebuilt to standard N... (more)
#975 is a GP30.
With Empire Builder cars.
The CB&Q Mt. Morris Spur heads north 7 miles from the main line at Oregon, Illinois which is about half way between Savanna and Aurora, Illinois. It exists because of a major printer in Mt. Morri... (more)
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 Roche... (more)
Built Aug. 1946 became BN 525.
CB&Q 992 became BN 2538 and the second unit, SD24 #501 became BN 6241.
