tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60491908490103073942024-03-27T16:52:57.412-07:00Railfan44's Railroad Photo Essays: the stories behind the picturesStory Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-65857268712828868002020-06-12T19:54:00.000-07:002020-06-12T19:55:17.799-07:00I Stopped the North Coast Limited<br />
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I helped put myself through College
working for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in the summer of 1964
and the Chicago & Northwestern in summer of 1966. These were great
jobs for a student because you received the same wage rate as the
railroader on vacation.
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For the Northwestern I worked mainly as a switchman in Proviso Yard in
the west Chicago suburbs close to where I lived with my parents and four
siblings (we lived a block from the CB&Q three-track race track 15
miles from Chicago). I even pulled pins on the hump a couple of times. I
also caught from the CNW extra board a round trip on freights to and
from Clinton, Iowa. And worked a few times switching in the CNW's Potato
Yard closer to downtown Chicago.
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I remember one 4th of July I did two tricks in Proviso Yards because no
one else wanted to work. I made double time and a half of the wage rate
for the jobs. In the mid-60s to a college boy that was big money.
Probably adjusted for inflation it still would be for 16 hours of work. I
had eight hours off between 8-hour tricks and went home to eat and
catch a little sleep. I remember sitting on the front porch of a green
and yellow CNW Fairbanks Morse switcher almost asleep (the burbling of
the diesel was almost like a mother rocking and singing you) as the sun
came up.
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But this story is about the CB&Q. I worked as agent in a half a
dozen stations, rural and urban. At the Lisle suburban station I sold a
lot of tickets but had no idea how to balance the books. After all I was
a physics major! There was no adding machine. I remember they said I
lost about $30 and they docked it from my last paycheck that summer. I
was also a student leverman at Union Avenue Tower, an interlocking tower
which controlled the west end arm of the wye south of Chicago Union
Station. Every Zephyr, every dinkey (CB&Q suburban train), every
train going to the washer, and every transfer freight between the Q's
Clyde (Cicero) Yard and railroad yards to the south came through the
plant. Plus some trains off and on the St. Charles Air Line did too. It
was a pistol-grip plant. I don't remember how many grips it had but 75
would be reasonable. I was a student for the first trick, 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. for a week. There were trains every few minutes. To have three or
four trains in the interlocking plant was not uncommon. The four track
CB&Q narrowed to two tracks around the west to north leg of the wye.
Dinkeys had priority over Zephyrs because it was assumed that a few
minutes to a commuter were more important that a few minutes to an
intercity passenger. I never got to operate Union Avenue Tower by
myself. But I did Montgomery Tower just beyond Aurora on the Galesburg
main. A major wreck occurred there with a detouring Rock Island
passenger train coming up the branch and a Zephyr just a few days after I
left working that tower because school had started (the interlocking
logic failed due to conversion of the plant to CTC, i.e., human error).
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But this story is about the Burlington's Oakland Tower (no longer
existent) which was about three miles south and a little east of St.
Paul Union Depot. The Milwaukee Road and the Burlington had parallel
single tracks through the plant. The Milwaukee's was closer to the
Mississippi River south of Oakland Tower and had less of a grade
northbound to St. Paul so northbound trains would run on it. Southbound
trains ran on the Q, which ran more on the bluff south of Oakland. This
made for mostly left-hand running for the ten miles from Newport south
of Oakland into St. Paul Union Station. The Q had a modest freight yard
against the high bluffs north of Oakland Tower and to the east of the
joint double track mainline called "Dayton's Bluff," the name of the
bluff above it. The Milwaukee Road had a large freight yard north of the
tower but on the west side of the tracks name "Pigs Eye" for a lake
that was almost across from the tower. The main purpose of Oakland Tower
was to let trains in and out of Pigs Eye Yard.
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About mid-summer I was assigned the swing shift at Oakland Tower. This
means I worked two days a week when the first trick operator/leverman
had his days off (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.). The next two days I substituted for
the second trick man. Then I worked the third trick for two days. Thus I
got one day a week off. This made sleeping and eating interesting. I
was 17 and could easily handle it. I stayed in the YMCA in downtown St.
Paul. Ate mainly at the diner looking like a railroad passenger car that
is still there as a greasy spoon in downtown St. Paul. I have eaten
there since.
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Oakland tower was a strong-arm plant. The strange thing about it was you
had to put the order boards down to let trains in and out of the leads
to Pigs Eye Yard. I never understood why. One day I forgot to put them
back up. I cleared the regular interlocking signals for the next
northbound train, the North Coast Limited. Normally when the order
boards are down the tower operator is on the ground and hooping up
orders to the conductor and engineer. I was in the tower unaware of my
mistake. The train came to a screeching halt about half way through the
plant. I bet a few drinks were spilled in the diner. I realized my
mistake and urgently called the dispatcher. He told me how to rectify
the situation, a Clearance Form saying I had no orders. By then the
conductor was up in the tower calling me every word you can't put into
print. I got written up for delaying the Northern Pacific RR’s hottest
train 3 minutes.
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I received a phone call from Chicago the next day saying if anything
ever happen like that again, forget my summer job. It didn't. Anybody
know why the order boards had to be down to get trains in and out of
Pigs Eye Yard?
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The first of the two photographs is an interior shot of Oakland. The
other is of the Q's northbound Morning Zephyr crossing over from the Q's
track to the Milwaukee's track. The tower and the order boards are to
the left. The southbound order board is down. I can't remember if you
could put the order boards up before you cleared a non-Pigs Eye route.<br />
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<br />Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-33756308324693228642019-10-26T20:23:00.000-07:002019-10-26T20:23:30.551-07:00My Favorite Caboose, Central Vermont 4014I spent the summer of 2013 volunteering at the Railroad Museum of New England. One piece of rolling stock which was quite impressive is CV 4014. It was built February 1925 by a Central Vermont B&B gang. Replaced a car of same number lost due to a fire. It's a gem of a renovation. Fans, it does not get any better.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1. Yes It's That Orange!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2. Some of the collection at the RR Museum of New England in Thomaston, CT. Closest is NH 529, an RS3.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3. Al Pomeroy, owner and renovator of the caboose (buggy in New England
speak), rides the cupola. The interior paint scheme is as was found
under 1/4 Masonite that was universally applied over tongue and groove
interior by the CV late in its service life.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4. Central Vermont Buggy 4014 at the Railway Museum of New England --
looking from the cupola end. Note, owner Al sometimes works on the
caboose on Saturday and drives the train on Sunday. Yes, the caboose
then serves one of it's original purposes -- an RV.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5. The fold-up table on the wall is original to the car and was moved to
various positions along this side of the car during its service life.
The coach seats are the owner's addition.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6. Original desk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7. Al is at the cupola end of the buggy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8. The correct replacement stove was found shortly after purchase.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9. This is the non-cupola end of the utterly gorgeous wood caboose.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr>
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10. One of two documented versions of the Maple Leaf. This is the correct version for this car.
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Black Hawk 92 in Lincoln, Neb. October 21, 1956</div>
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Black Hawk exterior as built</div>
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Blackhawk being iced on B&O Train #8 at Cumberland, Maryland on July 25, 1966</div>
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On B&O #8 at P&LE Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 25 1966</div>
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On B&O Race Train, Del Park, Wilmington, Del. on June 3, 1967</div>
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1975, on the rear of a C&O freight train was taken in Potomac Yard.<br />
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<br />Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-33597349358278478202019-08-19T20:41:00.001-07:002019-08-19T21:44:06.186-07:00Cab Ride in the Deccan Queen Pune to Mumbai (formally Bombay) India on February 11, 1982 PART 2
Please see Part 1 first at https://railfan44.blogspot.com/2019/08/cab-ride-in-deccan-queen-pune-to-mumbai.html<br />
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Commuters. <br />
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Track work. <br />
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Kanjurmarg Railway Station in Mumbai.<br />
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Housing right along the tracks, Mumbai. </div>
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WCM5 20090 with the Deccan Queen just arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus Station) in Mumbai (frormally Bombay) on February 11, 1982. <br />
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Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com84tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-26946150808427599052019-08-19T20:08:00.004-07:002019-11-06T17:01:26.727-08:00 Cab Ride in the Deccan Queen Pune to Mumbai (formally Bombay) India on February 11, 1982 PART 1<br />
In early 1982 I was consulting to the United States Agency for
International Development (US AID) on energy and environment relative to
India's Transportation System. What better way to get to know a transportation system than to ride it. <br />
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The Deccan Queen or Deccan Queen Express, is an Indian passenger train that connects the two largest cities of the Indian state of Maharashtra, i.e. Mumbai and Pune. The service was named as Deccan Queen after the nickname for Pune: Queen of the Deccan. <i>Wikipedia</i><br />
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The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in western and southern India. It rises to 100 metres (330 ft) in the north, and to more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in the south, forming a raised triangle within the south-pointing triangle of the Indian subcontinent's coastline. <i> Wikipedia </i><br />
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This is looking out of the cab of the large electric locomotive. I'm on the right side of the cab, the motorman is on the left side. The railways were built by the British so everything is left-handed. The U.S. example is the Chicago & Northwesrern Rwy.<br />
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We have just left Pune (pronounced poona) on this very nice morning and are headed for Mumbai about 80 miles west and somewhat north.<br />
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There are vertical bars outside the front windows appear in most of the photos.<br />
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This photo is looking back at the substantial train. <br />
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At that time Indian Railways had active steam.<br />
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We met a freight train powered with an electric, very similar to the one I was in, and pushed by two diesel locomotives.<i><br /></i><br />
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Out the cab window.<br />
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Another look back from the cab. <br />
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A passenger train headed toward Pune. <br />
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Saw this across some fields. Wonder if it is 2 foot gauge. <br />
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A commuter train headed toward Pune. <br />
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And another meet with an Electric like ours. <br />
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Please go to PART 2 https://railfan44.blogspot.com/2019/08/cab-ride-in-deccan-queen-pune-to-mumbai_2.htmlStory Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-54623165271535477232019-02-08T16:11:00.000-08:002019-02-08T16:11:10.938-08:00Looking at the Pikes Peak Cog Railway I rode the Pikes Peak Cog Railway on August 11, 1993 and took
several photos to record its operation. The cog railroad is a few miles
west of Manitou Springs, CO.<br />
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Wikipedia says, "The Broadmoor
Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) was an
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway#Abt" target="_blank">Abt rack system</a> cog railway with 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard
gauge track in Colorado, USA, climbing the well-known mountain Pikes
Peak. The base station was in Manitou Springs, Co<span class="text_exposed_show">lorado
near Colorado Springs. The railway was the highest in North America by a
considerable margin. It was built and operated solely for the tourist
trade. As of March 15, 2018, the company has ceased operations for the
foreseeable future. They state the entire infrastructure needs to be
replaced or upgraded; this includes the rails, the ties, and the
passenger cars."</span><br />
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Recent information says it will reopen for the 2021 season with all new equipment, rail, and rack.<br />
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Peak Cog Railway Car 24 at the Base Station. It is a Diesel
Hydraulic with a Cummins 855 built in 1983 and carries 214 passengers. I
actually rode Car 25, an identical sister to Car 24.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My high school and college railfan buddy Roger Puta was at Brockville, ON one day in March 1980. Every day trains from Montreal and Ottawa arrive, are combined and head off to Toronto. Later a train from Toronto arrives and is divided into two trains, one goes off to Montreal and the other to Ottawa. Sounds simple. Yes. But fun to watch? <b>Yes! </b> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are the cars from the Montreal train.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Montreal cars (right) and Ottawa cars are coupled together to make up the train for Toronto.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Roger photographed the train about to depart ...</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">... and departing.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And what about the diesel that came in on the Montreal train? VIA 6791 has been hiding behind the depot!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And everything is quiet for awhile. Roger positions himself on a bridge east of the depot. Then ...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">... a westbound comes through without stopping as the red nosed train of interest from Toronto arrives at the Brockville Depot.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">VIA 6791 moves into position while the red nose prepares to leave with the Ottawa portion of the train.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Red nose moves out leaving the Montreal cars behind.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the crew on the ground prepares the way for VIA 6791 to move to her train.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Roger can go get warm.</span></span>Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-17422991187376987482016-11-01T17:15:00.002-07:002016-11-01T20:09:08.996-07:00An 8-Photo Sequence of Semaphores - Before, During, After a Train <div class="editable meta-field photo-desc ">
<span style="font-size: small;">The photographs in this PhotoBlog were taken by Roger Puta in October 1985. This amazing sequence shows Roger's love of signals. Few of
us would have stayed around to get the whole sequence. </span></div>
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The aspects of the signals in the first photo show the track is clear in both directions.</span><br />
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The location on the Southern
Pacific RR was along the Tuscon Division, Carrizozo Subdivision -
Ancho Block (Direct Traffic Control) - between clearance point east
switch Robsart siding M.P. 1447.4 and clearance point east switch Ancho
siding M.P. 1463.6 in New Mexico. Thanks to Bob Finan via the Train
Orders Discussion site for the location information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The one blade signal shows the block ahead is now occupied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The one blade signal shows the block ahead is occupied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The one blade signal shows the block ahead is still occupied. The two arm signal shows the engineer that the next two blocks are clear.</span><br />
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The double blade now shows the block next to the camera is occupied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The double blade now shows the block next to the camera is occupied. The single blade shows the block ahead of the camera is clear.</span></div>
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The train has cleared the block next to the camera. The aspect on the double arm signal is equivalent to a yellow signal which tells an engineer in a train coming at the camera to prepare to stop at the next signal.</span></div>
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The train has cleared the second block behind the camera. The signals say clear in both directions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thank you Roger for this documentation and for teaching us. </span></div>
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Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-31739153008592387302016-10-20T17:15:00.001-07:002016-10-20T17:15:23.649-07:00Alaska Railroad's Denali Express, A Chase, Summer 2009During the Summer of 2009 the Alaska
Railroad ran the DEX (Denali Express) for the cruise ship lines between
mid-May and mid-September between Whittier and Denali National Park,
both north and southbound on Saturdays and again on Mondays. That took
two train sets. The northbound set was put away at the end of the day
in Fairbanks. The southbound run in Anchorage.
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I caught a southbound DEX the afternoon of August 22, 2009 at Wasilla
and followed it south to Whittier. It had left Fairbanks very early to
pick up its cruise line passengers at Denali at 7:45 a.m. and would
bring them to a cruise ship at Whittier. As my photographs show, there
is much beautiful scenery for them to see as they ride in luxury.
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The train consisted of SD70MAC 4007, a Holland America Tours car, and
five Princess Tours cars. The cars are self contained and required no
electricity from 4007.<br />
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I first photographed the DEX just south of the Wasilla depot at 2:25 p.m.
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I then hurried down to Anchorage and caught the train just before the depot. (next two photos)<br />
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Here the DEX is passing Potter Bird Sanctuary (foreground) just south of Anchorage at
4:07 p.m. Above the train is the Turnagain Arm of Cooks Inlet.
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And again south of Potter at 4:25 p.m.
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At 7:00 p.m. the DEX is in Whittier, discharging its passengers. The crew has
run the locomotive around its train so it can head back through the tunnel to Portage.
There are no turning facilities at Whitter.
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At 9:11 p.m. it is back at Portage using the wye so it can pull the
train back to Ancorage Yard cab first. In the foreground the higher
track in the mainline and the lower a siding. A crewman is on the
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The crew continues to wye the locomotive. I didn't chase the DEX north
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Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-40041358613062402732016-04-21T23:51:00.002-07:002016-04-21T23:51:21.690-07:00Permit Me to Show You a Bounce<strong></strong><span style="font-size: large;">When a suburban train makes a second run during the commuter rush, it does
not always run out to the end of the line. I photographed an example
on the Burlington Northern Racetrack the morning of May 13, 1991. The Burlington Northern Racetrack is the three-track mainline that runs from Aurora, Illinois to Chicago Union Station. Daily it sees many commuter trains (called dinkys), several Amtraks, and a good number of freight trains. It is big-time railroading, and has been since about 1900.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Burlington Northern locomotive 9914 and her train had already been to Chicago and were returning to bounce at Lisle, IL. I took this photo at 7:35 am. She is on the inbound track (eastbound) approaching (about a half mile from) the Lisle inbound platform. She has run express back from Chicago Union Station where she had deposited her first load of commuters. Her train is now empty. She is pulling. Her head light is on. For the record she was an E9A. Some call her an E9AM because in September 1973 she was rebuilt with diesel generator (HEP) from CB&Q 9989B, an E9A with a steam generator, built in January 1956. She was retried in October 1992. I'm sure she pulled the best over the years: The Denver Zephyr, The California Zephyr, The Empire Builder, and The North Coast Limited. And she did that while rotating in and out of commuter service. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It's now 7:50 am, the Lisle passengers have boarded and are reading
their newspapers. No smart phones. She is pushing her train back to
Chicago and will make a few local stops before hopping on to the Zephyr
track (the middle track) for a fast run back to Union Station and then a restful day in the
coach yard before the evening rush. Maybe she will visit the Zephyr
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<span style="font-size: large;">She has a High Green, her headlight is out, and her engineer has
abandoned her for the bi-level cab car. She is pushing with everything
she's got. And don't tell her her train is a Dinky. Never insult an
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note, not all railroads call this a "bounce". I have heard "flip-back".</span></span><br />
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Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-40233035825908476512015-05-19T16:59:00.002-07:002020-07-06T21:35:30.235-07:00SPUD, Not a Potato, But St. Paul's Train Depot<span style="font-size: small;">On Thursday May 14, 2015, while at my daughter's in Minneapolis, she and I visited <span style="color: red;">S</span>t. <span style="color: red;">P</span>aul <span style="color: red;">U</span>nion <span style="color: red;">D</span>epot, <span style="color: red;">SPUD</span>, by riding the Green Line light-rail to St. Paul and back. I wanted to see the renovated depot I had known in its glory in the 1960s when I worked for one of the tenant railroads, the CB&Q. She had used it recently to ride Amtrak's Empire Builder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thursday was a dark day with intermittent light showers. We boarded the Green Line at the Warehouse District Station after a short bus ride from her neighborhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The first SPUD burned in 1915. The completion of this SPUD was delayed by World War I until 1923. The renovation took it back to its 1920s appearance. Here is the headhouse in its early years. The headhouse is one grand room with multi-story wings for offices, meeting rooms, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When I first entered the headhouse in June of 1964, it was the waiting room and housed the steam locomotive <i>William Crooks</i>. This 1954 photo is licensed under Wikimedia Commons. The ticket windows are to the right. Note the "modern" florescent lighting from the 50s has been replaced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The concourse of the station was above the tracks with staircases down to the platforms between the tracks. Between the headhouse and the concourse is a wide hall which serves as the waiting room today for Amtrak passengers and intercity bus passengers. The Amtrak Chicago to Seattle/Portland Empire Builder goes Chicago bound in the morning and westbound in the evening. Midday Thursday nobody was waiting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the end of the hall is the concourse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The concourse was above and perpendicular to 9 platforms serving 18 tracks. During its heyday, the depot hosted the passenger trains of nine
railroads, and at its peak in the 1920s, 282 train movements
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<span style="font-size: small;">To the left (east) in the above photo are the gates which lead to staircases down to the platforms. The next photo from 1964 is looking back at these staircases and gates. The black arrow points to one of the skylights in the concourse. Today this area east of the concourse is basically vacant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And another 1964 photo of about the same area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is my daughter looking at one of the gates along the east wall of the concourse. Both local transit and intercity buses serve some of these gates from below. If you look all the way down at the end of the concourse you can see a gate marked "C". That is where the only train platform, a new one, is. Amtrak's Empire stops there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The last train to stop at SPUD was in 1971 when Amtrak was formed and moved all operations to </span><span style="font-size: small;">the Great Northern Depot in Minneapolis until it moved into the Midway Station in 1978. Amtrak came back on May 7, 2014 after the renovated SPUD was opened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Only one of the original stair cases from the concourse down to the platforms survived. It is along this east wall of the concourse. I had to photograph it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is that gate "C" where the Empire Builder arrives and departs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This picture was shot on Thursday from a window in the west wall of the far end of the concourse. To the right is the ex-St. Paul Central Downtown Post Office complex. In SPUD's hayday the depot's trains handled more than 20 million pieces of mail annually to or from the Post Office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beyond the Post Office Complex is the Robert Street Bridge over the railroad tracks and the River and just beyond it you can see the tower of the railroad bridge that crosses the River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next photo was taken in 1964 from the Robert Street Bridge looking back at SPUD's concourse (upper center). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Looking back from the far south end of the concourse looking toward the headhouse on Thursday. The west wall of the concourse has a set of murals instead of gates. That's sure a lot of floor to keep shiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Walking back to the headhouse end of the concourse and turning around we see the the murals displayed. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tour End</span></b></h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">As a final note, in 1964 SPUD even had its own switch engine!</span><br />
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<br />Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-59398190296031480852015-05-12T17:18:00.000-07:002015-05-12T17:32:55.162-07:00Virginia & Truckee #22, McKeen Motor CarThis PhotoBlog is about a self-contained Railroad Passenger Car. It was called a Wind Splitter for obvious reasons. <span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">She was built by McKeen Motor Car </span><span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">Company of Omaha, Nebraska in April of 1910 and was renovated by the </span><span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City. She is a piece of beautiful art </span><span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle"><span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">as I will show you</span>.</span><br />
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<span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">The car was donated to the Nevada
State Railroad Museum in early 1996. The official unveiling of the restored
car was May 9, 2010, one hundred years exactly from the date it was delivered to the
Virginia & Truckee Railroad. </span><br />
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renovation of railroad cars/locos you either keep as much of the
original material as you can and only replace with today's equivalent
what you have too. Or you save what is in perfect or near perfect
condition and rebuild the car with as much new material as necessary
including making many replica parts. The second method is the case with
Nevada State Railroad Museum's McKeen Motor Car. The interior, for
example, is almost all new material and and this PhotoBlog contains several interior shots.
I rode and photographed her on October 29, 2011. </span></span><br />
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This photo is of the front truck with a flywheel.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For more information check these pages out:</span><br />
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The first picture shows the tow truck guy (I think his name was Ernie) checking the grip. <br />
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"Yep, it's broken."<br />
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"Everybody off the car!"<br />
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Fortunately it was only a couple blocks to the end of the line and everybody walked.<br />
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Hook up <i>Big Bertha</i>. Well, I was hoping the Muni guys had named the tow truck. I checked. They hadn't. So just for this blog (it's my blog) she is <i>Big Bertha</i>. This next picture is her cameo appearance as she pulls #26 away. Good work Bert!<br />
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Now #12 is free to move on. Up the hill is Cable Car #9. And #9 comes by.<br />
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<br />Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-86533487566907470242015-02-23T14:02:00.001-08:002015-02-23T15:22:00.048-08:00I Once Made a Bus Stop<div>
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Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-67403624686244196332014-08-23T20:11:00.000-07:002015-06-08T22:58:57.783-07:00Chasing the Kettle Falls International Railway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The Kettle Falls International Railway has two lines out of Kettle Falls in northeast Washington State. On October 25, 2010 I chased the train they call the Waneta/Columbia Gardens Job which runs for about 48 miles from Kettle Falls north into Canada along the 150 mile
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I woke up early so I could drive to Kettles Falls and watch the train crew put their train </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> together </span>in the yard. It was an overcast day with "few showers" as the Online Weather Channel had said. And it rained on and off all morning. But hey! This is the Pacific Northwest. And the autumn colors were splendid, standing out against the grey the Weather Channel brought me.</span><br />
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This is my first time in Kettle Falls, so while the train was being made up, I scouted around and found the overpass I used as a stage to photograph the train's locomotives at 8:28.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">All three diesel locomotives are leased from three different leasing companies. The leader is a GP40-2 from GATX Railroad Locomotive Group bought new in March 1969 by the Baltimore and Ohio RR.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">In the middle is a rebuilt OmniTRAX GP38-3 built in December 1964 as <span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">SSW 771, a GP35.</span></span></h4>
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I studied the map the night before finding I could follow one road, State Route 28, from Kettle Falls to the Canadian Boarder. I had found that road during my scouting. <br />
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8:56, in the country and starting to see autumn colors. And there's Route 28 to the right with some of the train crossing over it..</h4>
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9:09 near Evans, WA.</h4>
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9:09 near Evans, WA.</h4>
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9:31, the road and railroad in the Columbia River Valley. The Valley is partially filled with Lake Roosevelt. An agreement between Canada and the U.S. allows the U.S. to use water out of the lake for irrigation in Washington State and in return provide some of the electricity produced at the Coolidge Dam to British Columbia.</h4>
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9:47 near Dolomite, WA</h4>
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9:47 near Dolomite, WA</h4>
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10:14 The train moves at maybe 30 mph. I would leap-frog ahead of it and look for photo opportunities, especially one with lots of color in the trees. Here is an example where while waiting for the train to catch up, I took a scenery picture.</h4>
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And another scenery shot out across the lake.</h4>
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The train caught up with me.<br />
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10:37 near Marble, WA.</h4>
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10:37 near Marble, WA.</h4>
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Looking across the lake again.</h4>
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10:38 As you can see, these last two train shots of the chase really
make the day worth while. The place is called Boundary, WA. </h4>
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could see the Canadian Boarder from this little town of Northpoint,
WA. I was happy with my catch of pictures. One more shot of this
building on Main Street then head back for home. Hopefully I'll find
trains along the way.<br />
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Thanks for looking.<br />
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This wreck involved trains of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR. It happened on the CB&Q at their Montgomery Tower in Montgomery, IL. Montgomery Tower was the first interlocking plant west of
Aurora, IL on the CB&Q double-track mainline to Galesburg, IL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The </span> CB&Q's single-track Streater Branch headed off to the
southwest and crossed the CRI&P at Ottawa, IL about 40 miles down the
branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pictures in this blog were
taken the morning after the wreck, September 28, 1964.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rock Island was repairing its Des Plaines River Bridge in Joliet on its mainline
and was detouring trains to Chicago up the CB&Q branch and
trains to the west down it.</div>
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An interlocking plant is a location where trains may switch tracks, enter a train yard, or diverge to a different line as at Montgomery. Montgomery was operated by a CB&Q employees called a levermen. An interlocking plant is a large mechanical device that will not allow the tracks to be routed so a collision between trains occurs. But it did at Montgomery. Before the investigation, everybody who understood the interlocking concept said the wreck was impossible.</div>
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As the diagram shows three trains, all passenger, were at Montgomery at
the time of the wreck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An eastbound Rock
Island waiting at a home signal (a signal on the signal bridge to allow a train to enter the interlocking plant) to come off the branch (upper right on the
diagram). It was CRI&P Extra 656 the combined Golden State and the Rocky Mountain Rocket. The second was a Rock Island westbound on Track 1, the normally westbound track (both tracks were signaled in both directions), waiting at a home signal to go down the branch (lower left on the diagram). The third was CB&Q #3, the combined Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr, westbound at 59 mph on the normally eastbound track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to an error in upgrading the plant to electric-powered turnouts compromised the integrity of the plant and turnout #14 was improperly set for the branch and the Zephyr veered off into the waiting Rock Island train. Indications were that the operator had no indication of this error. Track turnout #14 was set for the
branch and the Zephyr veered off into the waiting Rock Island train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The wreck took place at 10:49 p.m. on the 27th.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The known diesel numbers are shown on the chalk diagram drawing I drew right
after the wreck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some computer additions
have been made to the diagram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
the diagram the interlocking plant is between signal bridges drawn like an
uppercase letter I across the tracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The home signals are on those bridges. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The importance of the track that curves
behind the tower labeled “to SHEEPYARDS” will become apparent.</div>
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Three CB&Q employees (two in the lead CB&Q engine) and one in the RI lead engine were killed. 200 hundred passengers and other employees claimed injuries but amazingly only five remained in a hospital more than one day. ) I was the night operator leverman at the tower two weeks previously. The operator that night collapsed of a nervous breakdown soon after the wreck. Some of the details in this album are from the October 1965 TRAINS Magazine article titled <i>The Accident That Couldn't Happen</i> by Mike Woodruff. The article goes into some detail on how interlocking plants work and what went wrong that horrid night. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The extremely interesting Interstate Commerce Report on the accident is here: https://www.jonroma.net/media/rail/accident/usa/icc/Ex%20parte%20244.%20CB%26Q.%20Montgomery%2C%20IL.%201964-09-27.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0HAVsmZx_dDzHUSNEEfa5hLTxLePRDJ5U_JfQf5fZc5Zxyfatc3GaVp2U <br /></div>
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<![endif]-->This diagram shows the situation as I found it on the
morning of the 28th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second
CRI&P train had been removed (towed back to at least Aurora) and the first
CB&Q diesel though shown was mostly gone. Two steam wrecking cranes with
their trains are present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 27
pictures in this blog are numbered and the number and direction of each
picture is shown on this diagram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr had three units, four stored mail cars (J), two baggage cars
(B), three coaches (C) two Pullmans (S), and a heavyweight diner
(D).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The headend cars (mail and baggage) accordioned, no
doubt absorbing much of the impact and protecting the passenger cars
somewhat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lead CB&Q diesel jackknifed
and the first Rock Island diesel took to the air.</div>
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Pictures of the Wreck</h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 01: The steam crane to the east of the wreck rerailing the last Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr car, a coach. This first one is easy.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 02: CB&Q Heavyweight Diner and Pullman "Silver Craig" originally purchased for the California Zephyr as it says on the Letter Board.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 03: Mustard and Ketchup On Your Hot Dog? The car to the left
is Denver Rio Grange & Western Diner "Silver Gorge" the other is CB&Q Pullman
"Silver Crag". Both are California Zephyr cars.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 04: Zepher Cars</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 05: The accordianed Zephyr headend cars.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 06: Seven of the nine diesel units involved.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 07: This unit was repaired and became Burlington Northern 9987 and pulled/pushed commuter trains in and out of Chicago.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 08: E7A 9922B was subsequently scrapped. She was 19 and obviously not worth
the repair expense. E9A 9987A at the right however was returned to
service.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 10: I can find no information if Rock Island 651 was rebuilt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 11: This diesel was later used in suburban service.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 12: Too closely spaced.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 13 : Rail laying over.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 14: This looks like the cab to the first Rock Island unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 15: The first train through using the "Sheep Yards" track down and through the yard and back up to the Aurora Depot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 16</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 17: First train through using the sheep yard lead track. Pieces on the ground are parts of the lead Zephyr diesel unit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 18: One of the first trains through using the Sheep Yard lead track. Parts on the ground are from the lead Zephyr diesel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 21: First train through on Sheep Yard lead track and Zephyr baggage car.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 23: Second CB&Q coach and two Pullmans.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 24: Looking west from Montgomery Tower (screen on window). One crane and its cars are
to the left. Sheep Yard lead track is center with rods from tower to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 25: Looking west from tower (screen on window). One crane and its cars are
to the left. One of the first trains is on the Sheep Yard lead track.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 26: First train through on Sheep Yard lead track behind the tower.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture 27: First train through on Sheep Yard lead track behind the tower.</td></tr>
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Unlucky 656. This was the third wreck for Rock Island diesel unit 656. It was rebuilt and upgraded the first two times, but not this time. What engineer would want to run her?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CB&Q Montgomery Tower 15 days before the wreck.
These were called strong-arm plants and sometimes you had to use a leg too as demonstrated in this self portrait. If school had not begun, I may have been the leverman that awful night!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montgomery interlocking today. The tower is long gone and the interlocking is operated by a remote dispatcher.</td></tr>
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<br />Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-41542890848937516052013-10-11T19:53:00.000-07:002018-02-04T17:08:03.451-08:00Downers Grove Depot Front Sheared Off by GoddessesIn 1947 the "Train of the Goddesses" (one of the second pair of Twin
Zephyrs) derailed at speed and hit the Downers Grove Main Street Station shearing off the front. Downers Grove is a Chicago suburb
22 miles from the city. Three people were killed and 30 injured in the
accident.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downers Grove Main Street Station, March 29, 1964</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is from the Downers Grove Historical Society. The men in the foreground are restoring one of the tracks to get the railroad partially operating.</td></tr>
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In November 1947 the repaired trainset was reassigned to Nebraska Zephyr
service between Chicago and Lincoln, Nebraska along with the "Train of
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The ICC accident report indicates that the derailment of Train #24 was
caused by it hitting a bulldozer which had fallen off a flatcar in a
freight train on the middle track. No. 24 was moving at about 73 mph
when it hit the bulldozer, the locomotive involved was E5A 9914A "Silver
Arrow" which was also repaired and returned to service. The engineer of
#24 was one of the fatalities.<br />
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9914A, an E5A, built in June 1941 and was traded in March 1968. Most of the cars from
the Train of the Goddesses are at the Illinois Railway Museum and run as a train.<br />
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Of interest are the names of the cars. The cars of the "Train of the Goddesses" were named <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesta_%28mythology%29" title="Vesta (mythology)">Vesta</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a></i>, <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyche_%28mortal%29" title="Psyche (mortal)">Psyche</a></i>, <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_%28Roman_mythology%29" title="Ceres (Roman mythology)">Ceres</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_%28mythology%29" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a></i>,and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_%28mythology%29" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a></i>. Those of the "Train of the Gods" were named <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28mythology%29" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_%28mythology%29" title="Neptune (mythology)">Neptune</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid" title="Cupid">Cupid</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28mythology%29" title="Vulcan (mythology)">Vulcan</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28mythology%29" title="Mercury (mythology)">Mercury</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_%28mythology%29" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a></i>.<br />
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Here's a YouTube video of Illinois Railway Museum's Nebraska Zephyr passing the station on the same track in 2012 by Patrick Kearn.<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcSRB8oaQKM<br />
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And note the following advertizement.<br />
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The original Norfolk Southern Railway Co. operated in Virginia and North Carolina between 1891 and 1974 when the Southern Ry bought it but kept the name. The Southern merged with the Norfolk & Western to form the current Norfolk Southern Ry. It's identity is gone but some pieces of the original Norfolk Southern operate as short-line railroads operated udifferent names and separate from the Norfolk Southern.<br />
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The map below shows the original Norfolk Southern in its maximum extent prior to 1974.<br />
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My window into the Norfolk Southern was 1968, 69, and 70 when I lived in southeastern Virginia. I knew little about the railroad but it would once in awhile show up as I was scouting for trains in various cities. Locomotivess 1 through 17 were GP18s. Number 6 below kindly waited on May 24, 1970 in Plymouth, NC for me to show up and take its picture.<br />
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Geeps 8, 3, 2001, and 13 are about to pull in Charlotte, NC on October 27, 1968. 2001 is a GP38. The following pictures show the other units on the train. Also note the NS boxcar #1311 to the right in the first shot.<br />
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I was surprised to learn that the Southern rebuilt the NS geep with a high short hood and long nose forward. Was there some sort of union agreement?<br />
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Here are two pictures of #11 working in Norfolk in May of 1969.<br />
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I volunteered at the North Carolina Transportation Museum last winter and guess what was there? NS 1616, a non-operable Baldwin AS416. I had taken NS 1617 in Chesapeake, VA in May of 1969. And yes I duplicated the picture as nearly as possible.<br />
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During the summer of 1963 I worked for the CB&Q filling in for vacationing agents, operators, and levermen. As the agent at Leland, IL for a couple of weeks, I found NS 28226 on the team track. I no doubt handled the waybills for the car. I doubt I knew anything about that NS. Didn't know I'd be photographing it by the end of the decade and 50 years later photographing its metamorph.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed this peek through the window my camera made.<br />
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As you might expect the original NS has a historical society. Their website is here:<br />
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Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-6244434818200415842013-07-23T10:06:00.000-07:002013-07-24T04:22:29.886-07:00EMD E5s and E6s I Have Known<h3>
I Have Known</h3>
Well "known" is really stretching the term. I'll show you E5s and E6s where photons from the sun bounced off the locomotive and impinged the Kodachrome in my 35mm camera. So it wasn't an intimate relationship.<br />
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I've photographed Rock Island and Seaboard Coast Line E6s and CB&Q E5s. The main difference between an E6 and an E5 is the stainless steel body of the E5s.<br />
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Where to start. Well, with the most recent, the years I spent in Ashland, VA (1968 to 1972) during the transition from SCL passenger trains to Amtrak passenger trains. Then I'll bounce back to my roots in Chicagoland and present the Rock's two contributions. And then the ones I love. The ones with names starting with<i> Silver.</i><br />
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E5s and E6s had two 1000hp model 567 Diesel engines each running a generator to power the traction motors. 16 F5s were built (11 As and 5 Bs) in 1941 and 42. C&S and FW&D each had an A and a B and the CB&Q had the remainder. 91 E6As and 26 E6Bs were built between November 1939 and September 1942 for 14 roads. ACL had the most, 22As and 5Bs.<br />
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Considering that there were a total of 1,251 E7s, E8s, and E9s built. The probability of finding an E5 or and E6 heading a train was small unless you knew where to look.<br />
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This is actually a very special locomotive. She was built as an E3 in November of 1939 but wrecked in the late 1940s and rebuilt to E6 standards. She still exists, painted in her original Atlantic Coast Line "The Champion" (modern NYC/Miami passenger train) purple motif at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. In the above picture she is on the ready track at Broad Street Station (Richmond, VA) waiting her next assignment. It's January 17, 1970. Below she is be washed by volunteer Noah last spring (2013) for a special event at the Museum.<br />
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Actually she was built by EMC (Electro-Motive Corporation) before in became a division of GM, i.e., EMD <b>(</b>Electro-Motive Division). One could argue she is the last remaining E3. She ran over 6 million revenue miles before she was retired circa 1970. Then tourist railroads put more miles on her.<br />
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This shot in Richmond clearly shows why they were called shovel nosed. The F-units and higher numbered E-units had much flatter "bulldog" noses.<br />
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Both Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line had E6s. When those lines merger to form the Seaboard Coast Line only the ACL 6s remained.<br />
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Out on the road their 2,000 hp would knock down the miles with ease. Here E6A 514 is mated with an E7A with Train 85, The Everglades, on September 15, 1969 in Richmond, VA.<br />
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Here's 514 again this time with the northbound Glades near Ashland, VA, also in September of 1969. <br />
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On this March 1969 day, E6A #518 has charge of Train 22, the Silver Star at Richmond. Quite a train as the next two pictures show.<br />
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518 also on the ready track at Broad Street Station.<br />
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Here E5A 519 is north of Ashland, VA the northbound Everglades in September 1968.<br />
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521 is at the Ivy City Engine Terminal north of Washington Union Terminal waiting the evening southbound parade of trains. <br />
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The Rock Island E6s</h3>
The CR&P had five EAs. Only 630 and 631 hung around long enough for my camera to capture their photons. I photographed 630 in Chicago/Joliet commuter service many times in three different paint schemes but she was never painted during that period in the classic "Rocket" scheme which she now wears. The last photo I can find of her was taken at Mid-America Car in Kansas City in May 2012.<br />
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My two favorite shots of 630 were taken the same morning at Englewood Union Station on Chicago's south side. It was Easter Break 1965 on a beautiful April morning. The first shot is an inbound commuter and the second an outbound. WOW, in the second she sure looks good in the morning sun for a 24-year old dame. She's crossing the Pennsylvania RR diamonds. Behind her is a transfer of piggy-back cars to the small downtown piggy-back yard the Rock Island had near the Loop.<br />
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I caught 630 in another paint scheme in March of 1971 working a commuter train in Joliet, IL. This surely was a plain Jane scheme. In the first picture she is at the platform and in the second beginning her pushing toward a green signal and on to LaSalle Street Station.<br />
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Six years later 630 was caught delivering an afternoon-commute train to Blue Island. The paint scheme has been spiffed up with a gold nose and redder flanks, <i>al beit</i> dirty. <br />
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I only caught E6A 631 once. Here she has just started to hustle the Golden State (Tr. #3) toward the Golden State seen passing the 99th Street commuter stop. The Rock Island will hand the train off to the Southern Pacific at <span class="st">Tucumcari, NM for the remainder of the run to Los Angeles. 631 and the two E7B units behind her will no doubt be turned to that the eastbound back home to Chicago.<i><br /></i></span><br />
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Now the Silver E5s</h3>
By far my favorite shot of the CB&Q's E5s is this one of 9912AB shooting the eastbound Morning Zephyr across northern Illinois through the sleepy town of Chadwick just after lunch with a 129 miles to Chicago on August 24, 1964. Their names: Silver Meteor and Silver Comet.<br />
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I worked for the CB&Q during a couple summers my college years and was the agent at Chadwick that day. The dispatcher's line gave me the heads-up on what the Zephyr's power would be. That gave me time to set up this shot. Below are three more shots of 9912A. The first two are at St. Paul Union Depot on June 27, 1964. Don't call that Northern Pacific SW1200 switcher #155 ugly just because it's sitting next to such a beauty. They both had their job to do.<br />
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I was also fortunate to capture Silver Clipper 9915B several times.<br />
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On July 5, 1963 the Silver Clipper lead the Galesburg Local (Train #2) at 9:45 a.m. (9 minutes late) at
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And a profile at Sandwich that morning,<br />
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Wishing for a wider angle lens so I could get closer and get her all in (Minneapolis in June 1964).<br />
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Here she and an E7A were taking Train 21, The Morning Zephyr to the Twin Cities through Milledgeville, IL on August 20, 1964. Note the four domes.<br />
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What 5s and 6s Survive? Only 4 A-units!</h3>
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<li>Chicago Burlington & Quincy E5A 9911A at the Illinois Railway Museum</li>
<li>Louisville and Nashville E6A 770 at the Kentucky Railroad Museum</li>
<li>Chicago Rock Island & Pacific E6A 630 hopefully being rebuilt in Kansas City</li>
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Note, of the 511 E7s built, we have only saved one. Many E8s and E9s survive.<br />
<span class="homePageText"></span>Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-66345014626898845792013-07-20T15:59:00.000-07:002013-10-12T17:01:54.730-07:00The Last Decade of the CB&Q on the Racetrack in My HometownI lived along the CB&Q racetrack during the 1960s in suburban Westmont, Illinois -- high school, college, and marriage. I had a decent camera which took good 35 mm slides. I was a railfan. I started taking color slides for documentation for model railroading. I soon took pictures for their own sake.<br />
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Westmont is about midway down the Q's three-track race track between Chicago and Aurora. That section of the Q was called the East End and was dispatched by the East End Dispatcher. Commuter trains were dominant especially on weekday mornings and evenings. But there was lots of freight, including locals, and, of course, there were the Zephyrs.<br />
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The "Q", along with other roads, was merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad on March 2, 1970. The pictures I am going to present in this blog were all taken between the early 1960s and the merger date.<br />
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So how to present them. Well I sorted my slides in a big metal slide box by locomotive number, so that's the way I'm going to present them which put the F-units first and the E-units last. Freight first and a big windup with Zephyrs and Dinkies. Actually I end with a few odds and ends.<br />
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CB&Q F3A 122D headed for Clyde Yard, just outside Chicago with a typical freight of that era of mostly box cars through Westmont on June 25, 1965. In all my track-side time during the '60s I can't remember a unit train.</div>
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This picture of 128D is the same combination of an F3A, F3B, and an F7A at the same spot but taken in January 1966.<br />
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This was the east bound East End Way Freight (other roads would call it a local) on July 15, 1966. The way freight seemed to run weekdays in both directions between Eola Yard near Aurora and Clyde Yard near Chicago. It had to dodge dinkies (commuter trains) all day. The "Way of the Zephers" GP7 218 is a EMD product of 1951. After the merger it became BN 1574 and was retired in1983.<br />
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CB&Q began applying the Chinese Red scheme to the Geeps in the 60's. Here GP7 259, about to cross Cass Ave., works the west bound way freight. She became <span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">BN 1615 and was retired Dec. 1981. On the rear is not a caboose. It was a way car.</span><br />
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SD24 #502 heads a freight with lots of power through the Westmont station area. <span class="CallOutSmall" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Thumbnails_SubTitle">She was built in 1959, became BN 6242, and was retired in 1982. Unfortunately I never caught a Q SD7 or SD9 leading a train in Westmont.</span><br />
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GP30s were unique because of the curves in their cab roof. Built the year after the GP20s, we see 942 coming through town with a sister GP30 and a relatively short freight in 1965.<br />
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CB&Q GP30 943, SD9 333, and another GP30 wast east bound with a long freight in 1966. The GP30s lasted well into the BN era and some survived to be part of the BNSF.<br />
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GP30 #955 crosses Cass Ave. Note the first car has a piggyback! I surely remember that National Food Store.<br />
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Often the East End Way Freight was handled by switch engines instead of geeps. This and the next picture show EMD model NW2 and both are westbound in approximately the same place just east of Cass. Both were built just after WWII and retired in 1983 as BN units. The above was captured in 1964 and below in 1962.<br />
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General Electric U-boats and Baldwin VO1000s switch engines. The VO1000s
were used in the coach yards of Chicago Union Station. Mentioned above
I didn't catch SD7s and 9s leading trains. My camera caught them however in other locations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">With minor exception passenger
engines were numbered in the 9900 series beginning with the Pioneer
Zephyr now on display in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. By
1960 all the early units up to the E5s were retired. While there were active E5s in the 1960s, and they came through Westmont, none did when my camera was around so we will ponder the
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<span style="color: black;">Here is an express dinky skipping Westmont and other intermediate stops pulled by E7A 9918B on a cold January 4, 1965. </span>She was built in November of 1947. Note the power car at
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generator for heat. The Budd gallery cars (we called them double deckers) were steam heated and had Waukesha self-contained A/C units. The
cars also had a 32 volt lighting system and received current from the power cars. The older suburban cars needed steam and had a small generator which ran off an axle of the car for lighting. The headlight for the next local can be
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All CB&Q E-units were members of the "Zephyr Pit" next to the Q Coach Yard south of Union Station. All were rotated in and out of Zephyr Service and Suburban Service. During the '60s all had steam generators for heating the intercity trains, the older commuter coaches, and initially the gallery cars. The transition to all-electric gallery cars and locomotives with head-end power was slow and was eventually completed by the BN.<br />
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Oops, a B&W snuck in. But that's OK because it is the eastbound Empire Builder lead by CB&Q E8A 9938A and two sisters on June 15, 1962. We lived on Park Street in Westmont which was perpendicular to the tracks and would have crossed the tracks right about here if there had been a grade crossing. With spare time I'd often walk, camera in hand, down to the tracks, cross all three to get to the south side and the sun and wait for what would come. And something always did. More often two or three somethings in a half hour.</div>
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Westmont is on a subcontinental divide. West of approximately Park Street water runs into the Illinois then Mississippi Rivers. East into Lake Michigan and out the St. Lawrence Seaway. Thus the Chicago River flowed into Lake Michigan and because of all the industry along it and poor sewage treatment it was severely polluting the lake and the fresh water. Thus a series of canals and locks were dug about 10 miles south of Westmont to reverse the flow of the Chicago River into the Mississippi watershed in 1900. </div>
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E8A 9945B and a sister running elephant style take the Empire Builder west on the Zephyr Track on a cold December 23, 1967 afternoon.<br />
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Here was a strange dinky because it ran with a baggage car to distribute baggage from intercity trains that arrived in the morning to patrons who took earlier suburban trains to the suburbs. It didn't last many years. Note the home-made power car (converted coach) next to the one gallery car. The date is 1/26/66. The power is 9946B, and E8A. Built in 1950, she had an interesting life after her CB&Q service as BN 9946 and then Amtrak 340.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"> 9947B is heating all the train except the last two cars as she makes her station stop at Westmont. She also made it to become an Amtrak locomotive.</span><br />
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The California Zephyr, 5 domes, zips through Westmont to make its afternoon arrival in Chicago on June 15, 1963. BN rebuilt several CB&Q E8s and E9s with head end power for its continuation of the Burlington's commuter service and finished the conversion of the gallery cars to all-electric.<br />
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Today, most or all diesel-powered commuter rail operations do not change the length (number of cars) of trains during off-hours thus accumulating many extra miles on empty cars and using many gallons of extra diesel fuel. It seems to be a trade-off between today's labor costs vs. fuel and equipment costs. Here E8A 9973 leading a commuter run on Sunday July 5, 1964, and the Q obviously didn't expect many riders and cut the train to one push-pull gallery car. Also some E-units by this time were converted to be able to generate enough power for two or three gallery cars' hotel load. <br />
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You are looking at the front and rear of the Nebraska Zephyr taken at about Park St. That's either observation car Juno
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Cities Zephyrs. One of the sets, with fewer cars, is now at the Illinois Railway Museum and has recently run down this very track. Unfortunately we have no way of knowing if it is this set. Look at all the head end (cars between the locomotives and the passenger cars). They are carrying mostly mail and Railway Express. Captured May 20, 1962.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">CB&Q E9A 9993 is in charge of the April 29, 1962 Morning Zephyr from the Twin Cities (afternoon when it passed Westmont). Budd Domes, Silver E-units, that was the Burlington image in the 1960s. 9993 was among the last passenger locomotives built for the Q in 1954.</span><br />
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Westmont is a commuter stop. Oh, the way freight stopped there to pickup and set out freight cars. But only commuter trains stopped, and not all of them either. The census of 2010 put Westmont's population at 24,685 but the station serves a much larger area north and south of town.<br />
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About 17 miles from the Union Station bumper post, this midday train's cab car faces east. With all gallery cars, the locomotive was on the outer end for easier servicing in Chicago, The conductor checks his watch before giving the highball on January 26, 1966.<br />
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Because of track work, or maybe the way freight got in the way, the station stop was made from the middle track. Detraining and boarding took extra time and delayed the train this fine Westmont June day in 1965.<br />
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Let's look at one more big inbound commuter train. The gold circle to the left of the Burlington Route emblem on the noise of the diesel was for the centennial of the railroad running between Aurora and Chicago. The first four older coaches had ice air conditioning and were steam heated by the steam generator in the locomotive. As mentioned they had a generator on an axle and batteries for internal lighting. The next car, the gallery car was steam heated but needed electricity for lighting provided by the last car, the power car. Inbound not too dinky May 20, 1964.<br />
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Here is one of the power cars. Originally a "combine", part baggage and part coach, the diesel generator was placed in the far front of the car. The roof vent is obvious however the door cut in the side to slide the diesel in and out is not except upon close inspection. The two big hinges help. Generator cars were unique to Q commuter trains because the diesel locomotives were all in the pool and would be also assigned to intercity trains. Other railroads used diesel locomotives dedicates to commuter service thus the steam generator could be swapped out for an electric generator called head-end power (HEP). Amtrak's first order of cars were the first all electric intercity cars and its diesel locomotives had HEP. As noted, BN wasted no time upgrading the Q's locomotives including HEP conversion. Amtrak locomotives handled the intercity trains.<br />
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Periodically run-through power from western roads would roll through Westmont to Chicago. If you like GP30s, here are four Rio Grandes returning home on January 26, 1966.<br />
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I'm sure I was elated in April of 1962 when I caught this brace of Great Northern F-units heading back to the Pacific NW. Must have been a Sunday since the commuter parking lot is nearly empty except for the family station wagon.<br />
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More GP30s, the middle two cabless, are returning with tonnage to Union Pacific tracks on August 30, 1968<br />
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UP Geeps Chicago bound with a Q unit tucked in third, roll through the commuter stop in August of 1969.<br />
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And there were passenger extras. Here's one on June 25, 1965 with a GN Super Dome and GN and NP business cars. <br />
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And finally steam. During the 1960s two CB&Q steam locomotives, 5632 and 4960, pulled fan trips, most of which were based out of Chicago and went through Westmont. Here is one headed by 4960 returning to Chicago on July 5, 1964. Luck us who rode a few. 4960 still operates periodically on the Grand Canyon Railroad, unfortunately altered to look more like a passenger engine. I don't understand that blotch on 4960's front. I'm sure it is not dirt on the slide.<br />
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Now you have seen how the last decade of "my" CB&Q looked in Westmont. I hope you have enjoyed the ride.<br />
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When I posted the existence of this blog to the Train Orders Nostalgia & History Forum I received many comments, several with corrections which I have made. But I want to especially thank CJV in Aurora for several clarifications on the heating and lighting systems of the gallery cars.<br />
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"Developed by the railroad as a mineral springs resort, the origin of the town dates back to the late 1840s. Officially incorporated on February 19, 1858, the town was named “Ashland” after native son Henry Clay’s estate in Kentucky.<br />
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"With the relocation of Randolph Macon College to Ashland in 1868, the town evolved from a railroad resort to a small college town. The construction of U.S. Rt. 1, and later I-95, further shaped the Town character and development.<br />
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"Today, Ashland is a community of seven square miles and 6,000 plus residents that enjoys prosperity fueled by the College, a growing private sector and a strong regional economy."<br />
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Well, It Was Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Land When I Took My First Stint of Pictures in Ashland Beginning Fall 1968 Through Summer 1972 </h3>
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This is the Silver Star which ran between New York City and Miami. The RF&P handled the train between Washington, DC (90 miles north of Ashland) and Richmond (17 miles to the south). As the picture shows, the RF&P's tracks ran in the median of the main north/south street, Center Street. This is the southbound Silver Star heading for Miami on September 18, 1968. The diesel/electric locomotive is an E8A built in 1949.<br />
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I was in Ashland for four years teaching at Randolph-Macon College which is conveniently located adjacent to the tracks.<br />
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At that time the railroad that handled the passenger trains south of Richmond was the Seaboard Coast Line (SCL). Often its power was used on the RF&P portion of the run. We are looking at the southbound Everglades, a New York City to Jacksonville train, on March 2, 1969. Snow was relatively rare in Ashland and the mailbox adds a touch of color. The Pennsylvania RR which handled the trains north of Washington DC was electrified so for trains the diesel/electric locomotives were exchanged for an electric locomotives while the train was in the DC terminal. Visa versa southbound. SCL 575 is also an E8A.<br />
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Freight was also hauled through the middle of Ashland by the RF&P. Here three of their units (GP40, GP7, and GP40) do the honors down Center Street in January of 1970.<br />
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Amtrak came into existence on May 1, 1971 and reduced the number of passenger trains running through Ashland by more than a half. This is Amtrak's Silver Star in May of 1972. Initially Amtrak had no equipment so it negotiated with the railroads to use/buy their locomotives, baggage, and passenger cars.<br />
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Lighting was interesting along the tracks. Tall trees cast dark shadows in the summer and more lacy ones in the winter. Northbound trains seldom had sun light on their noses. I was happy when I got back the slide of this telephoto shot of the northbound local freight because of the neat lighting.<br />
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One Day The Southern Railway Detouring Trains Through Ashland</h3>
In Virginia, their mainline from the South to Washington DC roughly parallels the RF&P. It passes through <span class="st">Charlottesville</span> and must have been blocked.<br />
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I caught this detour from the Southern Railway moseying through Ashland in August 1969. The white flags mean was an "Extra". It's a backlit northbound. The first unit is a GP30R. It was wrecked and put back together with a GP35 body and Alco trucks from a trade-in. Here's two more photographs of the train as it passed by.<br />
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I also caught a couple of Southern passenger trains detouring through Ashland. I wish I knew what southbound train this F3A is leading. It's late evening. Could be the Crescent ... but F-units? The detour could have messed up the power pool. Here is a second shot.<br />
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Here's a northbound with piggybacks (truck trailers on flat cars) on the end. Lighting is late afternoon or evening. Don't know how late the train is. My guess it is the Piedmont. And a second picture.<br />
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Auto Train</h3>
The Auto Train concept was conceived by a private company (Auto-Train Corporation) and the first train ran in December 1971. The trains ran daily in both directions between Stanford, FL (central Florida) and Lorton, VA (just south of DC). It carried passengers in passenger car comfort and their automobiles in freight car auto racks overnight between the end points. Initially quite successful, Auto-Train added a second route into the midwest. That route became problematic, pulled down the company, which folded in April 1981. 22 months later Amtrak started a similar service between Lorton and Stanford which continues daily.<br />
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The first picture below is the original Auto Train just north of Ashland in March 1972. The auto-racks are first and the passenger cars last. Amtrak did it oppositely with the passenger cars first as the next two pictures show. Dates are May 2007 and May 2013.<br />
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And the auto racks behind the passenger cars in May 2013. Big train!<br />
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Last Runs</h3>
Even before Amtrak the Seaboard Coast Line was attempting to discontinue poor performing passenger trains. Here's a couple trains it did.<br />
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The first two pictures are of the Sunland making its last run on September 9, 1968. It was a Washington to Tampa train. Not many passenger amenities in its last years. Who would want to ride it? Few did. Thus it was a money looser and the Interstate Commerce Commission allowed the Seaboard Coast Line to drop it.<br />
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And this is the last run of the Silver Comet passing Mile Post 13 on the RF&P on May 8, 1969. It was a New York to Birmingham train via Atlanta with connections to New Orleans. To try to justify the train the Seaboard Coast Line added priority freight on the end of the train as did other railroads during that period.</div>
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A Look at a Few Freight Trains Passing Through</h3>
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Led by an old guy, RF&P 102, A GP7 built in 1950 leads two newer Geeps and a Road Switched down Center Street in July of 1969. And below we see 102 with sister 103 doing local switching in September of 1969. The industrial spur they are on has been removed.<br />
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With a GP35 up front, the fourth unit is a passenger unit. With the number of passenger trains diminished, passenger horsepower was used regularly on freight trains. This is from August 1969.<br />
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My guess here is that the Seaboard Coast Line freight units did not have cab signals compatible with the RF&P signal system so a RF&P road switcher was added up front. This is May 1972.<br />
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Through a series of mergers, the RF&P became part of CSX Transportation on July 1, 1986. Quite soon RF&P power was roaming around the eastern United States and CSX power hauled freight trains through Ashand as these next four January 1994 pictures show.<br />
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Here's Amtrak's Southbound Silver Star Marches through Town in the Spring of 2007</h3>
First the telephoto lens shot (note the lens flair from the head light on the baggage car), then the normal lens shot, and finally the turn around shot. The photographs were taken in 2007 and the lead locomotive was built in 2001.<br />
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Amtrak's Carolinian heads north from Charlotte, NC in the next two shots with the Randolph-Macon College Campus to the left. I also captured the southbound Carolinian the same day (third shot below), January 8, 1994. The Carolinian's northern terminal is Boston and the locomotive in the first two shots was built in 1981 and in the third shot in 1979.<br />
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Train 86, The Everglades was photographed north of town in September 1968. The lead locomotive is an early passenger diesel electric, a SCL E6, built in 1942. The second unit is an RF&P E8 built about 10 years later. <br />
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Ashland has a neat little depot which was turned into the town's Visitors Center after Amtrak took over and only one train each way called. Now the State of Virginia funds several additional Amtrak trains and with a few others make Ashland a stop. But the depot remains the Visitors Center with no ticket agent or baggage handling. The train arriving is #93 to Richmond, a State supported train. The rainy evening was May 17, 2013.<br />
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With the older RF&P paint scheme, locomotive 1003 heads Train 21, the pre-Amtrak Silver Star on August 4, 1969. The four cars between the locomotives and passenger cars, the head-end cars, include two cars of Railway Express packages (today's FedEx equivalent) a U.S. Mail Car possible with mail being sorted on-route (if so it was a Railway Post Office (RPO)), and the baggage car for the passengers' baggage. The far end of the train is just leaving the track on Center Street.<br />
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This is a State supported train from Newport News stopping at the depot on that rainy May 7, 2013 evening. <br />
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A foggy day make interesting pictures. This is the Silver Star in 1968.<br />
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And to end this blog, a hi-tech freight train. Actually this is a CSX work train. The cars carry ballast (stones for the track) and have batteries to open the doors along the bottom of each car to drop the ballast. The solar panels seen on each car keep the batteries charged.Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-52357929348606783152013-03-12T11:59:00.002-07:002013-03-12T16:37:52.343-07:00A Train Photographer's NightmareIt's a late winter March afternoon in Fayetteville, NC in the unlucky year of 20<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>13</b></span>. The sun angle is perfect to catch the late-running southbound Amtrak Palmetto headed for Savannah making its station stop. I have mentally marked three places to stand to catch the train approaching the station, at the station, and departing. I'm ready.<br />
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Suddenly I hear horns from the north and the <b>south!</b> I can't see the Palmetto. I turn around. A headlight is coming at me from the south. It's a freight! It's on the track closest to me. The Palmetto will be on the other track and the freight will probably block my view of the Amtrak. )-:<br />
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I could cross over the tracks but the lighting would be bad and I already have a couple mediocre shots of the Palmetto from that side. I stay put. I'm not much for praying, but sometimes it is necessary. <br />
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The freight arrives first and soon I don't even know if the Plametto is at the station. Then I spot it stropped over some gondola cars.<br />
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I'm not much for swearing, but sometimes it's necessary. I guess that neutralizes the prayer. I look back. I can't see the end of the freight.<br />
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Will the Palmetto's station stop be long enough for the freight to clear? Minutes go by. Certainly everybody has gotten off and on and the baggage exchanged by now, but the freight is still rolling by. Ok, I can see the end of the freight. Is the Palmetto still in the station? I can't see.<br />
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The last freight car goes by. Yes! It's still there. Click! Click! Toot toot! Click! Click! (-: <br />
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<br />Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-51047418628394327362013-02-23T17:52:00.000-08:002013-02-23T18:03:57.215-08:00Perley A. Thomas Car Works, Inc. Morphed Into Thomas Built [School] BusesI am sure many of us have made the pilgrimage to New Orleans to ride the Perley Thomas streetcars. Or being there for another reason, rode them. They are the dark green cars that run on the Saint Charles Avenue Line. <br />
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Some have been painted red for the Riverfront Line.<br />
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Perley A. Thomas started his streetcar company in High Point, NC in 1916 to rebuild open cars as enclosed cars for Charlotte, NC. He built cars for many cities including Helena, MT as shown in this ad. In its hayday the company was the fourth largest streetrcar builder producing over 400 cars.<br />
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The Tennessee Williams play <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> was set in New Orleans, Louisiana where Perley A. Thomas streetcars were operated on the Desire Line around the period of 1947. The Desire Line has not existed for decades.<br />
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There are nearly a dozen Perley Thomas cars saved outside of New Orleans at museums and San Francisco. The new streetcar line just opened in New Orleans will use Perley Thomas cars. Actually the transit agency there is capable of building new Perley Thomas cars and has.<br />
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The St. Charles Line loops on Canal Street for one block. A good hotel room can provide excellent photo ops.<br />
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And as this and the next picture shows, it is not just an historic artifact. The St. Charles Line provides well used local transportation.<br />
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This is my favorite picture of a Perley Thomas car slightly panning one as it hurries around Lee Circle.<br />
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Hurricane Katrina wiped out the St. Charles line. Here is a picture the evening it reopened out to its midpoint in November 2007.<br />
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Your child or grandchild may have ridden a Perley Thomas to school this morning. Well sort of. Thomas Built Buses, Inc. is a descendant company building school and other speciality buses in High Point, NC. I could not see any buildings on their site that looked old enough to have been there during trolley building though I'm told some remain but modified. Here is a picture of their main entrance.<br />
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Perley A. Thomas has been inducted into the North Carolina Transportation Hall of Fame. A Perley Thomas trolley is under reconstruction at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The work has nearly stopped because many of the volunteers working on it were Thomas Built employees and were laid off because of the recession.<br />
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A lot on this subject exists on the Internet. Just Google "Perley Thomas".Story Behind the Pictureshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13716784079436827968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6049190849010307394.post-16406419447940607642013-02-23T15:52:00.000-08:002020-04-05T10:24:39.763-07:00God's Side of the Tracks<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the tiny village of Huntdale, NC, up in Appalachia is a Free Will Baptist Church, Established in 1900. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because of a sharp curve the trains go slow through there. But the
noise is still significant. Today there is about one train every 2
hours. At one time a steam-engine-pulled train came by much more often. I hope the preacher times his sermon so the fire and brimstone part comes as a train goes by.<br />
<br />I guess on a snowy Sunday morning coming out of the church if you slip and fall on the <span class="il">tracks</span> and get run over you go straight to heaven.</span><br />
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<span class="metadata-info"><span class="metadata-info-title"></span></span><span class="link-list metadata-info offer-links-with-thumbnail"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you remember the song with the first line "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The railroad comes through the middle of the house". </span>Huntdale comes as close as I have ever seen to making that true. Look at how close the back yards are to the tracks in this picture I took seconds before the one of the train above.<br />
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charted at #11 in September 1956.</span></span> Maybe we can rewrite the song to "The railroad came up the aisle." In 1975 the Lawrence Welk Show turned the song into a skit as seen here:<br />
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It was college spring break week. The weather tomorrow,<br />
the Wednesday after Easter, was going to be good for train<br />
pictures. Where to go? I had a car. Englewood Union<br />
Station. I’d never been there. Englewood wasn’t the best of<br />
neighborhoods. (It’s now one of the worst.) I’ll do it in the<br />
morning. I was 20, male, and relatively fearless. So before<br />
dawn April 21, 1965, I left my parents’ warm western suburban<br />
home to head for the mid-south side of Chicago – 63rd<br />
and State. [EDIT, I recently remembered that my good railfan friend Roger Puta was wioth me that morning 5 decades ago.]<br />
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Englewood Union Station had much to offer; three major<br />
railroad mainlines – New York Central (NYC), Pennsylvania<br />
Railroad (PRR), and Chicago Rock Island and Pacific<br />
(CRI&P) with the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad<br />
(Nickel Plate or NKP) a tenant on the NYC. Name trains on<br />
all lines. Suburban trains on two. And all passenger trains<br />
stopped except for a few Rock Island suburban train expresses.<br />
Today no passenger trains stop, neither the Amtrak trains on<br />
the ex-PRR tracks nor the Rock Island District Metra trains.<br />
The CRI&P tracks ran basically north/south east of and parallel<br />
to LaSalle St. They are now part of Metra’s Rock Island<br />
District. The PRR’s tracks (now Norfolk Southern) coming up<br />
from Indiana ran northwest past the station, across many diamonds<br />
with the Rock Island, and continued over the Dan<br />
Ryan Expressway about 1000 feet later before heading north to<br />
Chicago Union Station. The NYC tracks came in from<br />
Indiana on the northeast side of and parallel to the PRR<br />
tracks, made a sweeping curve north at the station resulting in<br />
curved station platforms where neither the fireman nor engineer<br />
could see the conductor, and paralleled the Rock Island<br />
north to LaSalle Street Station. The two ex-NYC tracks nearest<br />
the station remain but some of the adjacent yard tracks<br />
have been removed (the remainder serve as a Norfolk<br />
Southern intermodal yard) as has the track that connected the<br />
Pennsylvania and Rock Island in the southeast quadrant.<br />
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I do not know how many slides I took that sunny morning.<br />
Forty remain. But in those days I was good at getting rid of the<br />
bad ones when they came back from processing. Maybe I took<br />
60.<br />
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The Rock Island presented the most trains that morning because of all<br />
the commuters and the piggyback transfers to their downtown<br />
piggyback yard which was essentially under the Roosevelt<br />
Road Bridge. The Central was next in the number of trains<br />
mainly because its E-units had to run back through Englewood<br />
to its engine terminal from LaSalle Street Station. The Pennsy<br />
was a close third and the Nickle Plate presented only the westbound, <i>The</i><br />
<i>City of Chicago</i>.<br />
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How many of those 40 kept slides will fit into this Blog Post?<br />
We’ll see. And where should I start? That’s easy: <i>The 20th</i><br />
<i>Century Limited</i>. I was a diehard CB&Q fan so <i>The 20th</i><br />
<i>Century</i> and <i>The Broadway Limited</i> were not special to me at<br />
20 years old but as a 4-year old my first train, a Lionel, had an<br />
NYC Streamlined Hudson pulling a couple of freight cars and<br />
a caboose. That train made me a lifetime railfan and modeler.<br />
And my Hudson was a model of what pulled <i>The 20th Century</i><br />
up the Hudson River on “The Water Level Route – You Can<br />
Sleep.” This slogan clearly was aimed at the PRR which went<br />
through the Alleghenies and around Horseshoe Curve.<br />
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A near perfect ABA set of E-units lead the <i>20th Century Limited</i> into<br />
Englewood Union Station that 1965 April 21st Wednesday. At the front was<br />
E7A 4022 followed by an E7B and an E8A. Hard to believe, but the NYC had<br />
no E9s or E8Bs either. The dozen cars ended in a plain stainless steel roundend<br />
observation car. Alas, no streamlined Hudson but an ABA set of Es a few<br />
minutes from ending their overnight run in LaSalle Street Station was just fine<br />
that long-ago morning.<br />
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Square-end “Mountain View” summed up the <i>Broadway Limited</i> that<br />
morning in a much more elegant fashion. She’s a 2 Master Bed Room, 1<br />
Double Bed Room, and a Bar Lounge. The train is just pulling out as a couple<br />
walks toward the station. Maybe that’s their porter looking out of<br />
“Mountain View’s” dutch door. The E-units on Train 49 will be at their Union<br />
Station bumper posts in a few minutes. Of course, no coaches, but also no<br />
checked baggage. Compared to the <i>Century</i>, the <i>Broadway</i> never made much<br />
money. PRR's <i>General</i> (coaches and no extra fare) was their money-maker<br />
overnight train between New York City and Chicago.<br />
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Mountain View's and the other train set's Tower View's Floor Plan.<br />
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The other E-unit ABA set that morning was an E7B sandwiched between the rears of two E8As. The lead unit of this eastbound, #4095, was the last E-unit the Central bought. The train was probably the “Except Saturday” <i>New York Limited </i>via Detroit. And it should be making money because of all that head end business. The roof line of the depot shows it was a simple building.<br />
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Here is the layout today. The depot is gone and the names of the railroads have changed. The Norfolk Southern's intermodal yard (the crescent to the right) was a NYC freight yard in 1965. Today, no passenger trains stop.<br />
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The most exotic engine to appear that morning is still difficult for me to choose after all these years. Of course, it would be one of the Rock Island’s commuter train power. Some might argue that AB6 750 had to be the most exotic. An AB6 had an E6B carbody modified with a single 1000 h.p. engine,windows and controls at one end, a baggage compartment, and a steam generator. Only two were built by EMD in June 1940 for the Rock Island (#s 750 and 751) for <i>The Rocky Mountain Rocket</i>. 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. For an illustration <a href="http://www.railroademporium.com/images/stories/ri/rocky-mountain-rocket-lg.jpg">click here.</a> 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 which operated as a B-unit on intercity trains and finally living out their days pulling and pushing suburban trains to Blue Island or Joliet. Here the fireman is looking in the mirror for the highball the conductor is giving.<br />
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Others would argue this General Motors failed experiment at light-weight and high-speed train was the most exotic. Called an Aerotrain and designated LWT-12 it was 10 years old that morning and downgraded to commuter service – not a good application of a train with few and narrow doors. Rock Island ended up with all three Aerotrains. I never saw #3 but caught #1 in LaSalle Street Station. Note there are actually four additional Rock Island trains in the distance in this picture. This picture is looking north with the CTA Englewood El bridge in the distance and the NYC tracks to the right. Surprisingly two of the three Aerotrains still exist. Number 2 is at the National Railway Museum in Green Bay,Wisconsin while number 3 spends time at the National Museum of Transportation near St. Louis, Missouri.<br />
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And a look in the rear door that morning.<br />
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If not on the exotic list, 630 was the most beautiful that morning. An E6A and cousins of the neighbor CB&Qs stainless steel E5s (same locomotive except for looks). These early E-uints (E1 through E6) shovel noses were, and still are, in my book, the most beautiful diesels ever built. The morning sun makes the 24 year old lady look almost new as she crossed the PRR diamonds southbound commuter train. Pigs are on another RI track. Note the interesting derails on the main PRR tracks. Fortunately 630 exists at the Midland Rwy Historical Association in Kansas.<br />
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A BL2 in commuter service! Well any railfan would admit that was exotic. Only one place else could you find a BL2 (BL for branch line, i.e., a light weight<br />
nimble engine) pulling a commuter train, especially one of decades old coaches. That one other place was on the Boston and Maine. 426 was one of five BL2s the Rock had and is seen here with an inbound express.<br />
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While Alco RS3s were not rare in 1965, one pulling a suburban train was. The Rock Island had a couple of hand fulls. Here 487 pulls an inbound.<br />
Not only did the Rock Island have to scrounge for diesels to keep its service going, any coach that could turn a wheel was fair game. This train was<br />
made up of three intercity cars with few doors and several double double-door Pullman-Standard commuter coaches.<br />
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Well I could not help adding another picture of 630. Here she is earlier that morning than the previous picture with a northbound. As usual, the conductor is the last on.<br />
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The Pennsy presented my 35mm camera two commuter trains from Valparaiso, Indiana both pulled by GP7s.The first seen here facing the diamonds with the Rock Island at about 6:50 a.m. was hauled by GP7 8551 and left Valpo at 5:55 a.m. – 29 nine miles and seven intermediate stops in 55 minutes. 8552 brought in the second about 45 minutes later. <br />
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The combined <i>Manhattan Limited and Golden Triangle</i> stirred up the pigeons on arrival about 7:00 a.m. at Englewood Union Station. E8A 5766 was assisted by two E7s. The roof radio antenna is obvious. Pittsburgh passengers could board the <i>Golden Triangle's</i> sleepers at 9:30 p.m., two hours before the cars were added to the <i>Manhattan Limited</i> and departed for Chicago. The Pennsy put three big trains through Englewood in an hour and forty five minutes every morning back then.This was the first, then the <i>General</i>, and culminating with the <i>Broadway Limited</i> for a 9:00 a.m. arrival at Chicago Union Station. Quite a show. Three westbound and two eastbound name trains consisted of NYC’s morning act. While more in number they just didn’t have the class of the tucson-red, E-unit hauled, Pennsy offering. At least that’s how it feels today over four decades later.<br />
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I caught NYC E7A 4002 and E7B 4102 in the simplified paint scheme backing to LaSalle Street station from the NYC engine terminal. An hour or so later they were back with an eastbound.<br />
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Of course there were F-units. Here CRI&P F7A 677 shoves four gallery cars full of commuters toward LaSalle Street Station. It was right on the diamonds with the PRR. <br />
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The Rock also presented inbound morning name trains – The <i>Rocky Mountain Rocket</i> and <i>The Peoria Rocket. The Peoria Rocket</i> required a lone E7 for its five cars that morning. However The <i>Rocky Mountain Rocket</i> arrived up with three elephant style Es lead by E7 641, followed by two E8s and cars from Los Angeles (off the Southern Pacific at Tucumcari, NM and via Kansas City), Denver, and Colorado Springs. <br />
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I can’t forget the Nickel Plate Road’s solo entry, Train #5, <i>The City of Chicago</i> with Alco RS36 #875 up front. This overnight Buffalo train had sleeper, a Cleveland to Chicago Club Diner Lounge and connected to New York City via through coach on the Erie Lackawanna. This shot was actually taken six months after the Nickel Plate/Wabash/Norfolk and Western merger. You could not tell by the train consist. It was pure NKP.<br />
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In the midst of that April morning’s commuter train rush the Rock Island shuttled piggy-back loads up to their piggy-back yard at the Roosevelt Road Viaduct and the LaSalle Street Station leads. Four were caught by my camera. On this one Baldwin’s 1952 S8 did the duty.<br />
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And another pulled north by a SW900.<br />
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About the same time an NYC crew was preparing for local switching<br />
duty with a transfer caboose and a rare reengined Lima-Hamilton LS-<br />
1200 #6210 built in September 1950. Founded in 1879, <i>Goes Lithographing Co.</i> occupied the same 75,000-sq.-ft. building the founder built inEnglewood in 1904 until they moved in 2010 to Delavan Wisconsin.<br />
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Well, I've told the story but there are more pictures to show you of the trains I saw that morning.<br />
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There were more BL2s with inbound trains. Here are two more.<br />
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And another Rock Island FP7.<br />
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And 750 with an inbound and then an outbound train. <br />
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And a Rock Island Galley Cab Car. That's an outbuilding to the depot at the right.<br />
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Here are two more photos of the <i>20th Century Limited.</i> <br />
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I have to show you E-units. This is NYC E7 4002.<br />
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NYC E7 4007. <br />
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NYC E8s 4079 and 4061.<br />
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NYC E8s 4081 and 4960. <br />
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And the Pennsy sent some through that long-ago morning too. Here's PRR E8A 5766 taking the combined <i>Manhatten Limited and Golden Triangle</i> to the Loop.<br />
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PRR 5853 E7 with the <i>Broadway Limited</i>.<br />
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And PRR E7 5880 with the <i>General</i>. <br />
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And finally a couple pictures of the Valparaiso trains. Here is another shot of the first with PRR GP7 8551 up front.<br />
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And sister 8552 with the second Valpo train. Both GP7s had dual control so the engine did not need to be turned for the engineer to face forward and steam generators in the short hood.<br />
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