From about 1975, a Chicago-bound "scoot" slows for a station stop at Barrington, IL. The C&NW operated three commuter lines from the city to the north, northwest and west. The "armstrong" interlocking rods to the right extend from the EJ&E's Barrington Tower.
Wow, you're all set there. Your kind of cold could result in frostbite if faced without respect. There is something about railroad photography that motivates us to sacrifice our comfort and time like no other.
Like snowshoeing up to Boreas Pass to stay a few nights in the old Colorado & Southern section house and see an old box car at the summit.
Beach, North Dakota. Kind of an oxymoronic name, huh? Like Hemi stated, but it is funny sounding! It is less than a mile from the Montana border and is a neat little town. Wibaux, MT was originally called Keith after a landowner with a post office at the siding. Then it became Mingusville, for the same reason! Minnie and Gus took over the post office, and changed the name. Later it became Wibaux after a French noble related to the Marquis of Medora, ND. Place names can be "verrry interesting", to quote a favorite little Nazi soldier of Laugh In fame........
Is it common for CP 199 to be a single locomotive consist? I know nothing about CP operations and next to nothing about intermodal. When I get back to the US, my layout will cover old WC/CN tracks in the Chicago suburbs(Antioch to Western Ave on the Metra lines) and there are intersections I think with CP and UP. I’d like to have some guest appearances from CP, and if it’s mostly prototypical to have a single locomotive consist that’s pretty appealing to me to keep costs down. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Wow! Naturally, you wouldn't do that in summer, right? I didn't know about Boreas Pass. I'm astonished that a standard-adhesion railroad crossed the Divide at nearly 11,500 FT. I can't begin to imagine the operational trouble that crews and maintainers must have faced.
Since I have started paying attention to it, (2018 or so), CP 198/199 is 1x1, usually 10K ft plus. While it's the hottest train on the Portal Sub, it's not powered as such to make track speed, and especially not on windy days! Is this like an AirB&B? So cool! As far as higher standard-adhesion railroads, Denver, Northwestern & Pacific (later Denver & Salt Lake) crossed Rollins Pass at 11,660 ft. The difficulties of operating trains above treeline on a rudimentary ROW (a temporary line intended for 3 years of use, while main range tunnel was bored at 9,900 ft elevation) with minimal attention paid to drainage meant operating rotaries every 8 hours around the clock for 9 months of the year. Blockades could last weeks, and the costs of operating Rollins Pass nearly bankrupted the railroad. Only the Moffat Tunnel and later Dotsero Cutoff saved the Moffat Route from being a dead end branch line. 27 miles of 4% grades mandated 5-engine trains, and those with some of the biggest steam engines in the world at the time of their 1908/9 construction, the DNW&P 0-6-6-0 200-class mallets. They later had a leading truck added to improve tracking, making them 2-6-6-0s.
Never did this before, but shooting a train over Gassman Coulee, I caught CP 293 in the distance. Upper & under, anyone?
That's neat! It's quite the feat to catch two railroads in the same shot on the road outside of a terminal. In 45+ years of shooting trains, I've managed it only a handful of times I think. We may have a new theme on our thread. 01/28/1989 Atlanta (Howells), GA
I've seen it only once before, when my uncle drove into the open door on my father's '40 Ford. Snapped the door's cloth restraining strap. OOOPS
A highly modified 1938 Hudson Terraplane.^^^^^ I like the fender skirt with a hatch to make a storage locker.
