This was C&NW Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum, where all the C&NW locomotives on museum property were given a chance to run trains on the mainline. The museum also hosted the C&NW Historica... (more)
Smell That Paint! Very freshly painted CNW 1518, CNW 411 and CNW 1689 pose out front of Barn 2 during the Diesel Days 2022 night shoot.
The original GP7. CNW 1518, the original GP7, has been restored to its hi-hood status and is on display in Council Bluffs for the CNWHS convention being held there in 1987.
For a special Rail Expo held in Duluth during the fall of 1988 C&NW borrowed (from IRM) the first GP7 built and an overhauled SD45 for display. Made for a neat photo.