From a box of old snapshots I took as a teen, SOO 777 (SD-40-2, Built 10/1974) is seen at Deval Interlocking in Des Plaines, IL northwest of Chicago. The C&NW, MILW and SOO all crossed here in a large triangle-shaped plant, with this set of diamonds on a bridge above US-14! I think I took this shot about 1976 or so. Is that a truck-mounted rerailing frog?
The "F-Units" last hurrah on the Keokuk Jct Railway before going to storage. Canton, IL Spoon River bridge-Seville, IL Marietta, IL Bushnell, IL crossing the BNSF Brookfield Sub diamonds. West of Bushnell, IL The final approach before tying down for good at La Harpe, IL. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Great pics of those F's, in perfect weather and lighting too!! Sad that they are going into storage, love seeing F's still earning they're keep.
I wonder how much of their fleet was equipped with such a frog? Was there something in their operating history, which prompted such an installation?
Sugar Land Railway locomotive #9. A Baldwin Ten Wheeler built for the railroad shortly before WWI. Another locomotive, probably #6 with a different pilot and no number boards. Note the different number of bolts on the smoke box cover also. The engineer, Cal Dean Hill, had his wife posing on the pilot.
Taken on Thursday, NS 192 passes by the south end of the passing siding at Simpson, SC. Signal fans will note the "Absolute" signal, as evidenced by the lack of a number plate and NS's use of an additional lower signal on the mast that always burns red. No "stop and proceed at restricted speed" on a red signal here. Stop and stay is required.
Just trying to learn this site and its software (a bit weird to me at the moment). I didn't look at the date on those postings at first,...didn't realize I was way back in history
