10 of the stored units sitting in Janesville.
EX-UP switcher still in full UP paint, with all the UP's fuss about copyright on my HO scale... hehe
Only around 2850 miles from home.... Its great to shoot the blue & yellow of ARR without all the time off from work.
Taking a pose...
Interesting train-set heads west towards Milwaukee.
C&NW 1689, C&NW 6847, C&NW 8646, and C&NW 8701 all sit under a crescent moon at the Illinois Railway Museum.
A line up outside the diesel shop during IRM's showcase weekend. Included here is the CB&Q 504 EMD SD24, the CRIP 4506 EMD GP7R, the ATSF 92 EMD FP45 and the CB&Q 9255 EMD SW7.
Trains staged for the morning. What is the smoke in the background? The Milw 261 simmers in the rear.
The ATSF 2903, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1943 for the Santa Fe, is displayed at IRM. The 2903 is a heavy Northern type locomotive, it weighs in over 510,000 pounds, while the FP45 next... (more)
Steam returns to Milwaukee. The 261 slumbers with a hint of twilight, and a healthy dose of Lumedyne.
Two C&NW cabs reside here, rare because neither are vandalized.
Sunset, smoke and steam... The tiny little Pacific type from the Little River Railroad rests next to the big Berks.
Steaming the night away.
An early morning at Galesburg finds a SD40-2 tugging on a cut of cars, under the horrible sodium vapor lighting.