Beautiful. Great to see this shot from 60 years ago. Quality is right up to today's standards!
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What a time capsule! The brilliant, red Great Northern boxcar (and a brown D&RGW one, too) in the background, but a switcher helping a mainline steam freight? Unprototypical! The cinder-coated ROW embankment is a sure sign of better (railfan) times.
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Best thing from steam days I have seen lately. Notice the broom sedge or whatever on the right of the fill, burned off, perhaps a wildfire caused by cinders. The freight cars are great, it's the era I model. We modelers fail to appreciate the styles and manufacture of vintage freight cars. Where in Nebraska? Ought to be easy. I love to see this great stuff come out of obscurity.
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Neat shot, a very funny combination of power.
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Great shot! That appears to have been shot from the South 36th Street overpass looking east. Today I-80 is just out of view to the left and may also occupy much of the area of the hill in the distance in its huge interchange with US 75 and I-480. The westbound train has just come through Summit and the local road bridge over the tracks in the distance being Dahlman Ave. The tracks below the UP are the C&NW (Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Valley) line to Irvington on Omaha's northwest side. The plant with the four boxcars, Mid-America Milling Co., exists today as National By Products, one of many meat processing-related industries in Omaha. I welcome any additons or corrections to my comments.
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