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    SD70MAC BNSF Executive Unit DPU on an eastbound double stack train rolling into West Glacier this afternoon...

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    From 03/16/1997 at Seligman AZ, which was once a division point between Needles and Winslow. Station is gone today, razed in 2008.

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    On 7 November 2024, R&N passenger power for the Jim Thorpe excursion train lays over at their Muhlenberg Twsp. station.
     
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    IL 1944 (An F7 from ALCO, not EMD.)

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    Awesome sauce! MILW 156 exists today at Oklahoma Railroad Museum, wearing PanAm paint.
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    From Milwaukee to Maine, via Mexico, and finally to a museum in OK.
     
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    Definitely Alco, just looking at that Otto Kuhler-designed streamlining! The headlight casing is a dead giveaway!

    Beautiful machine!
     
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    Wow, that's beautiful! :love: 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.
     
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    Yes, Mayfair crossing.

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    Yes, Mayfair crossing.

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    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.
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    Miami Junction, on Bill Darnaby's Maumee Route HO layout is also configured as a series of crossovers, instead of diamonds.
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    Oh, that's pretty neat -- over the NYC at Miami Junction. Wow, that's a fantastic model railroad!
     
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    Eastbound Grainer rolling into West Glacier, MT with foreign power in the lead (needs a bath!)

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    Still lookin for corn, SP 9314 goes head to head with 199. Mojave CA.
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