Waiting for a job. One of two GP7s CGW had.
#61 is a TR2.
Six or more F units up front was typical for the CGW. Here it looks like 3 F3s followed by 3 F7s.
About 70 miles west of, and headed for Chicago, the snow started in earnest, but Chicago Great Western F units don't slow their pace during my Christmas break from College.
At the suggestion of 1st trick Operator Sam Armstrong, Mike Nelson climbed the signal bridge and got this view of a westbound. "It'll make a better picture!", Sam surmised. 110C has 91 loads and... (more)
Seen from the bluffs above the placid Mississippi backwaters on a July morning, a CGW eastbound will soon crossover and duck into Winston Tunnel onto home rails. With 4 loads and 142 empties, thi... (more)
Eastbound CGW manifest enters interlocking at Dubuque Junction. The pot signal near the front of the 2nd unit governed eastbound movements on the former westbound track, which was used for access ... (more)
Inbound into Kansas City, Chicago Great Western 154 tugs mostly mail down from Iowa.
The Chicago Great Western lives on in 2008, on a great looking caboose.
N&W 2441 (ex NKP) wait for CGW transfer to clear Short Line Junction.
Eight years afer CGW merged into the C&NW, RS2 52 still wears its CGW colors pulling a local across the Cannon River.
