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Stourbridge Lion Feb 27, 2006

  1. Hardcoaler

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    They were older kids just taking in the view. I'm glad they chose to stand there, adding a bit of human interest to the picture.
     
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  2. BoxcabE50

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    I keep looking at the sign. It just has a class all of it's own. Quite an attention getter. Sad that such art is long gone today. :(
     
  3. Kurt Moose

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    I bet it looked awesome at night, all lit up!(y)
     
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  4. r_i_straw

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    On the Mudge track at Englewood Yard, Houston, 1996.
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  5. BNSF FAN

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    Still some C&NW freight cars out there. This si at Saginaw TX Jan 15, 2023

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    CNW 753529 (Former Rock!!!)
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    CNW 135784 (How about those spray painted numbers)
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  6. BNSF FAN

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    But wait, there's more :D

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  7. Kurt Moose

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    Two Fallen Flags on the same car!:D
     
  8. Hardcoaler

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    From 08/24/1974, a snapshot from my 126 format Kodak Instamatic at Barrington, IL. The 415 is pushing inbound to Chicago, hence no headlight. Good ol' C&NW with their left-hand running. :love:

    1974-08-24 Barrington IL - for upload.jpg
     
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  9. Hardcoaler

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    Probably taken the same day is this shot of the station at Barrington, with active train order signal. The Barrington station agent also controlled the interlocking to the east where the main reduced from three tracks to two.

    The station survives as a restaurant, moved some 45 years ago to a new location.

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    From August 1978, here's the station being moved, power lines lifted and all.

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    From March 1978, here's the new station. Looking at mapping sites, it's since been doubled in size and the TO signal is gone.

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  12. Doug Gosha

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    Wow! It looks almost exactly like when they moved the CGW station back to almost exactly its original location in 1996, on the other side of the track because there wasn't enough room between the track and river after flood control work in the eighties. As it looks today:

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    Doug
     
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  13. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  14. Doug Gosha

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    Oops, I forgot to mention that was in Rochester, MN in my post, above.

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  16. Kurt Moose

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    Wow, cute little thing! You could use a old Roundhouse loco to model it!(y)
     
  17. Doug Gosha

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    I like the old boxcabs.

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  18. Kurt Moose

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    Today in Auburn Yard!
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  19. Hardcoaler

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    Three interesting C&NW pictures found on the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library website.

    Owatonna, MN
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    Dakota 400 at Rochester, MN
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    C&NW's entire RDC fleet in one picture. Bought in 1950 and sold to the C&O in 1957. That's the CNS&M under wire at left.
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