Thank you. I thought I'd found all of my MILW shots, but happened upon a few more here. I shot these on a day trip with a friend I knew from high school and after 45+ years we recently caught up with each other again. His pictures are gone, but I'm blessed that our friendship has endured. Poor light here, but GP-20s are neat.
Just came across another one from 1976 of a northbound C&NW at Des Plaines, IL and there's my friend at the left with his trusty Canon AE-1. Des Plaines was a really neat spot, with a triangle of mainlines handing the Soo, C&NW's Harvard Sub, and a MILW/C&NW joint freight line, all controlled from Deval Tower. In this shot, the train is on the MILW/C&NW joint line and he's crossing over the Harvard Sub. This was Deval in 1976, demolished in 2012 after an electrical fire took it out of service.
No objection here for B&W photos! Even neater, rebuilt GP9s that were boosted to 2000 hp - without a turbocharger - and then MILW bought those GP20 plaques and bolted those on. That's one of them! Neat and a half!
Oh, that's neat Mike -- had no idea. One of the dumb things I failed to do that day was to take a picture of FP-45 #2. I saw it, but was then distracted by other units and never got a shot of it. These were two that distracted me.
GP9 passenger units. At one time, they were painted in UP colors in the mid-50's, and even pulled the Olympian Hiawatha thru Eastern Washington thru the "Gap"!
Ow! I love my stable of H16-44s. I have 4 SOU units. If I was railroad president they would have stayed on the property.
FM H16-44, little brother to the H16-66 - Baby Trainmaster which was, in turn, little brother to the H24-66 Trainmaster! There were Baby Trainmasters around here in the sixties. Doug
CN 100 unit leading CP 375(empty grain cars). Green Island, IA March 24, 2022 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Elevator goat, once at Havre, MT, passing thru Minot, ND and marked for Northern Plains Railroad. In Havre, 2008: Minot, 2022:
