SD70MAC BNSF Executive Unit DPU on an eastbound double stack train rolling into West Glacier this afternoon...
From 03/16/1997 at Seligman AZ, which was once a division point between Needles and Winslow. Station is gone today, razed in 2008.
On 7 November 2024, R&N passenger power for the Jim Thorpe excursion train lays over at their Muhlenberg Twsp. station.
Definitely Alco, just looking at that Otto Kuhler-designed streamlining! The headlight casing is a dead giveaway! Beautiful machine!
Wow, that's beautiful! With the multiple track mains, my guess is that it was shot at Mayfair where the MILW crossed the C&NW's Harvard Sub in suburban Chicago. This was an anticipated location to see when I rode C&NW commuter trains and is still a busy spot today.
Neat! At the extreme right, we can see a curved line under a signal bridge as seen in the 1920 drawing below. It was a C&NW line built in the late 1890s as a freight cut-off. North of Mayfair, it turned in a northeasterly direction to meet the Chicago <=> Milwaukee main south of Wilmette. As a teen looking out coach windows in the 1970s, I was intrigued to see that the Cutoff did not have diamonds where it crossed the C&NW Harvard Sub, but rather a series of switches that worked their way across. The Cutoff had become a weedy industrial branch by then, made obsolete by a new line further west at Deval/Des Plaines.
Miami Junction, on Bill Darnaby's Maumee Route HO layout is also configured as a series of crossovers, instead of diamonds. https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GMR2007_5665.pdf
