Nice baby ! So what's this thing indeed ? In the first place I thought about a SD35 (don't know if there are still some running nowadays), but looks like it's not ? Dom
You never know what parents will produce when their DNA mixes. Those six-axle trucks look way too large for that body.
On 10/20/2017, GE C44-9W BNSF 4689 takes an NS rail train north from Burnside, KY over the Cumberland River.
Eastbound doublestacks make track speed downgrade into Minot over Gassman Coulee Trestle, among the longest on the former GN. 109mm, f/10, 660 sec
Russ, is 2571 one of the units that Sante Fe rebuilt from an F unit? That abnormal body triggered long-unused neurons in the catacombs of my brain...
Yes, the ATSF called them CF7s. They rebuilt virtually all of their F units in the early 1970s to road switchers. 2571 was formerly F7A 202L.
Two pics from 2002, as originally shot and then cropped. Challenger running through Mt Prospect, IL, July 6, 2002. These are 35mm negatives scanned on a Canon scanner.
GREAT shots and scans -- thanks! My family lived further up the C&NW's Harvard Sub northwest of Mt. Prospect, IL in the late '60s and '70s and I'm trying to nail the exact location of these shots, as the C&NW/UP main is/was three tracks in Mt. Prospect. However, there are a lot of nearby lines and freight connections to the big yards further south and the Mt. Prospect geography gets confusing. I'll bet I wouldn't recognize a thing if I were to visit today! Thanks again for these.
If I recall correctly, that is just northwest of OHare, just north of Touhy and just east of Mt Prospect Road.
All of Mt Prospect is N/NW of O'Hare. The question is which side of Main Street and distance to Prospect Bikes and Trains. Actually, this is really really simple there are only 2 railroad crossings in Mt Prospect. Mount Prospect Road on the east side of town and Main St in the center of town. The signal box CLEARLY states Mt Prospect Road. So this is taken on the eastern side of town. Directly north of O'hare aThe shot shows another crossing down the way which the current google maps would indicate that Wolf Road is about half a mile to the east (In Des Plaines) and Main is about a 1-1.5 miles to the west. That Crossing looks a lot closer than a half mile. So they may have removed some crossings. I forget if it was Mt Prospect or Des Plaines that had the horrific School bus/train crash that changed all the crossings in the area.
I believe that gated crossing is Mt Prospect Rd, the small crossing nearest the camera is no longer there. It may have been an industrial access. My memory is fuzzy after 15 years (and 74 years of life!). Also, almost all of the trees that were in the area, no longer exist. And yes, it was east bound.
Last time I was in that neck of the woods was in 2001 before I moved to the west coast. I lived in River Forest and Worked out in Rolling Ghettos....I mean Meadows. So I visited all the train shops and Role playing shops in those suburbs.
I too, looked at Google maps to refresh my memory and it would appear that it was actually in town of Des Plaines, not Mt Prospect though the location is accurate as far as I can recollect. We've lived in the same house in Elk Grove Village for over 40 years and the changes we have seen cannot be believed.
