So that #28 is Texas State Railroad? What is the location? I see a depot behind the steamer, but cannot read a name.
Wasn't the TSRR having some financial difficulties a few years back? Is the freight operation doing well?
The depot is Maydelle, which midway between Palestine and Rusk. In 2007 the State leased the railroad to American Heritage Railways. Then in August of 2012 American Heritage Railways sold the lease to Iowa Pacific Holdings. In addition to continuing passenger operations, Iowa Pacific Holdings opened the track to the main line in Palestine on November 1, 2012 to begin offering freight services.
That shot of 300 is great, but it sure looks like it's missing a trailing truck. Did it begin life as a Mike or 2-8-4?????
It started out as a Consolidation. I believe that would be a 2-8-0. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Isn't there another shortline, somewhere within Illinois / Iowa / Wisconsin area, whose units also wear this famous NP paintscheme? Dom
It's April 1980 and we're at the bumping posts in Chicago at Northwestern Station. Sorry about the low-rez scan. I'm still saddened that this beautiful terminal was razed. Beautiful architectural details abounded and all are now lost.
I remember that place. Yeah sad it's gone. Although the platforms were still there the last time I visited.
Thanks for the post! I wish I'd have shot more photos of the station back then, but who knew? Here's some C&NW action in 1978 on the Northwest Line at Barrington, IL. Some years later when the new depot was built, this coach yard was moved a mile or so east.
That would be the St. Croix Valley Railroad, which is headquartered at Rush City, Minnesota. Their track is actual ex-NP, and their engines have an actual copy scheme of the NP. The units you saw above are different colored and different patterned.
I found my old Kodachrome slides from August 1977 and rescanned them. This is the ceiling above the waiting room in the C&NW depot in down town Chicago. They demolished all this and put a chrome and glass office tower in its place.
That F7 looks like it had more than one rebuild/upgrade. I spy what looks like HEP mufflers near the back end of the unit. And an appointment with the dirt rearranger is desperately needed!
Wow. Slightly. Looks like when I have seen lightly colored automobiles which have driven through a segment of freshly tarred highway. Ugh!
Oh man, thanks a bunch for the ceiling shot too! I can vividly recall sitting in the waiting room as a lad, looking up at the steam locomotive drive wheels in the tile thinking how neat it all was. How wonderful that you took a photo of it. When I was young, I'd ride the train in with my Mom at Christmastime. We'd shop at Marshall Field, then meet with my Dad and visit All Nation Hobby and Hobby Service & Supply near the Loop. Many years later, all are gone, even my Dad. Nonetheless, I have such happy memories of it all. Again, thanks so much for sharing your photographs.
Another westbound "Scoot" between Palatine, IL and Barrington, IL on the three track main. Although this was a short early afternoon train, it was assigned an E. The main reduced to two tracks at Barrington. My scans are all old and of lesser quality. One of these days I'm going to buy a good slide scanner.
