Battered old goat doing the work to help feed the world.
A late version on the model, note the hood vents and the single angle slope to the cab. By the way, thanks to BN for a classy way of renumbering without butchering the paint job. CSX, pay atten... (more)
I think this green scheme is the last incarnation of this joint operation.
NW2 8814 has just recieved clearance to roll north crossing the CSX main and into the IHB East Chicago Yard.
Johnson Railway Service NW2 139 is assigned to the Murphy Brown elevator at East Laurinburg, North Carolina. (The lightened background was not done in PhotoShop ... there was a lot of grain dust ... (more)
147 became BN 484. It had a good lifespan, 8/45 to 8/82.
104 was built in 1941 and later became BN 590.
A rare NW2 rolls northbound past Calumet Tower on a cool fall evening in northwest Indiana.
The second switcher is 9401A. Both of these switchers were built in 1949 as TR2s. The cows with cabs were numbered with an A. The cabless calf's number ended in B. They were rebuilt to standard N... (more)
The CB&Q Mt. Morris Spur heads north 7 miles from the main line at Oregon, Illinois which is about half way between Savanna and Aurora, Illinois. It exists because of a major printer in Mt. Morri... (more)
Looking like a mixed train because of the 40 ft. combine on the rear this day instead of a way car (CB&Q jargon for caboose), this is the Oregon Turn with NW2 9234 doing the pulling. It near Roche... (more)
The grain silos tower over their switcher.
Built Aug. 1946 became BN 525.
