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| Title: |
CB&Q GP7 211 and NW2 9245 |
| Description: |
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad NW2 9245 and GP7 211 at Eola, Ilsinqis on January 8, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler |
| Photo Date: |
1/8/1966 Upload Date: 4/2/2008 10:47:01 AM |
| Location: |
Eola, IL |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 211(GP7) CBQ 9245(NW2) |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9245 |
| Description: |
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad NW2 9245 at Eola, Illinois on January 8, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built in August 1946 (c/n 3641) on EMD Order E699. It became BN 542 and was retired by the BN in May 1983. It appears to have acquired a new all-weather cab window recently. There was a roundhouse behind the photographer, who's shadow is pointing toward the rear truck. I posted another photo of this locomotive dated October 11, 1964, and in that photo the Way of the Zephyrs slogan was painted on the hood, suggesting that this locomotive was shopped sometime between the two photo dates. |
| Photo Date: |
1/8/1966 Upload Date: 4/20/2010 8:07:42 PM |
| Location: |
Eola, IL |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9245(NW2) |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9248 |
| Description: |
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad NW2 9248 and crew at Narperville, Illinois, July 8, 1963, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This is the East End Way Freight between switching duties. Left to right: Mr. Fred J. Huntley - Engineer; Mr. Riedy (referred to as the College Boy by the crew), - Rear Brakeman, later, Head Brakeman; Mr. John Sylogye - Conductor; Mr. Norm Herrington - Fireman; and unknown - Head Brakeman. I have two stories about the Conductor. Shortly after this photo was shot, the gentlemen all went about the business of railroading. John however was curious about the spitting sound that the locomotive was making. There is a device on locomotives that separates the water from air when it is compressed, and expels the water automatically causing the spitting sound. John apparently was unfamiliar with that device and must have thought that the drain cock at the bottom of the air tank was not closed completely. He reached under the tank and turned the valve, which he opened by mistake instead, which expelled the water at the bottom of the tank at the full air pressure of around 100 pounds per square inch. The valve happened to be directly over the rail and the expelling water hit the rail and bounced back on John. After he corrected the error, the Engineer looked down from the cab at the soggy Conductor and said, 'Now now, mustn't play with the locomotive boys.' I was in high school during the years I knew John and the crew of the East End Way Freight. So I only hung around the railroad when I wasn't in school, which is to say on holidays and during the summer. I got familiar enough that I was allowed to do certain chores, one of which was to go to the Kroehler cafeteria and get coffee for the crew. This served several purposes; it got me out of the crew's hair, it made me feel like I was part of the crew, and the crew got free coffee. As it happened, my step-father ran the cafeteria, so I took the crew's thermos bottles and filled them up for free. On occasion, there was no time for my coffee services, so John made coffee in the waycar. I had never had coffee, so when it was offered to me, I felt like I should have some, being an honorary part of the crew. Perhaps it was because it was my first cup, or perhaps it was because that old coffee pot could have used a cleaning, but it was dreadful. Nevertheless, I drank it and made the best smiley face I could as I sat on the bunk in the coal-heated waycar with the crew. But I was more enthusiastic about my coffee services after that. |
| Photo Date: |
7/8/1963 Upload Date: 1/31/2010 12:17:02 PM |
| Location: |
Naperville, IL |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9248(NW2) |
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728 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Earlville Turn, Wayfreight. |
| Description: |
West of Aurora at Kennedy Rd. |
| Photo Date: |
1/1/1967 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 10:03:10 PM |
| Location: |
Aurora, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9248(NW2) |
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771 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9400B Switching in 1964 |
| Description: |
Built as EMD demonstrator TR2 #912B. It was a cabless calf. The cow was EMD #912A and then CB&Q 9400A when the Q acquired the pair. Rebuilt about 1954 as a full NW2 as shown. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/1964 Upload Date: 12/19/2006 10:18:58 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9400B(NW2) |
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956 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CBQ 9400B in Daytons Bluff Yard |
| Description: |
Built as EMD demonstrator TR2 #912B. It was a cabless calf. The cow was EMD #912A and then CB&Q 9400A when the Q acquired the pair. Rebuilt about 1954 as a full NW2 as shown. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/1964 Upload Date: 12/19/2006 10:18:59 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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CBQ 9400B(NW2) |
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662 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9400A |
| Description: |
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad NW2 9400A at Bevier, Missouri on August 14, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. It is seen here leased to the Bevier & Southern, arriving in 1962 to replace 4943, perhaps the last operating CB&Q steam locomotive in revenue service, excepting the two fan trip engines. This locomotive was built on Order E912 in October 1947 as the cab unit of EMD's TR2 demonstrator EMD 912A (c/n 5514). The CB&Q purchased a total of 14 TR2 sets, including the demonstrator, and in 1954, sent the B-units back to EMD for installation of cabs. The TR2/NW2's in the 9400 number series were the only NW2's on the CB&Q equipped with MU plugs. It eventually became BN 546 and was retired in May 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
8/14/1966 Upload Date: 5/30/2008 10:54:16 AM |
| Location: |
Bevier, MO |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9400A(NW2) |
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1122 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
simplied |
| Description: |
Surely not classic CB&Q in my mind! I guess someone must have decided that another day in the paint shop would just simply cost too much! |
| Photo Date: |
3/16/1969 Upload Date: 7/1/2010 1:08:55 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9400B(NW2) |
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526 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Variations on a Paint Scheme in Daytons Bluff Yard |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/4/1964 Upload Date: 12/19/2006 10:19:00 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9401A(NW2) CBQ 9413B(NW2) |
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1091 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9412B, 9401A, and a Waycar |
| Description: |
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 NW2s in 1954. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1964 Upload Date: 5/29/2007 7:25:06 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) CBQ 9401A(NW2) |
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1363 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q transfer headed into their yard in St Paul MN in June 1970. |
| Description: |
CB&Q used 3 switchers on the transfers for the big 1.8% grade out of their large St Paul yard. |
| Photo Date: |
6/19/1970 Upload Date: 6/12/2012 4:39:59 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9401A(NW2) |
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571 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CBQ 9404B in 1970 |
| Description: |
CBQ 9404B in 1970 |
| Photo Date: |
5/22/2006 Upload Date: 5/26/2006 8:47:30 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Vern Wigfield |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9404B(NW2) CBQ 9401A(NW2) |
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743 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Dealing with Cabooses in 1964 in Daytons Bluff Yard |
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| Photo Date: |
6/3/1964 Upload Date: 12/19/2006 10:18:54 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9402A(NW2) |
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1289 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9402A Switching in Daytons Bluff Yard |
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| Photo Date: |
6/4/1964 Upload Date: 5/29/2007 7:25:04 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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CBQ 9402A(NW2) |
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658 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9402A |
| Description: |
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad NW2 9402A at Clyde, Illinois on March 14, 1965, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in February 1949 (c/n 6564) on EMD Order E1009A for nine TR2A's, mated with nine TR2B's (EMD Order E1009B), this particular locomotive became BN 550 and was retired in May 1983. This was the cab of TR2 9402, a drawbar-connected cow-calf set. In 1954 the CB&Q sent the B-units back to EMD for installation of cabs, suffix letters were added to the units, producing 9402A out of the original cab unit and 9402B out of the returning B unit with a cab. The B's had the revised cab installed, with rectangular windows over the hood on the cab front instead of the arched windows on the original cab A units, as seen here. |
| Photo Date: |
3/14/1965 Upload Date: 3/19/2009 12:44:16 PM |
| Location: |
Clyde (subdivision), IL |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9402A(NW2) |
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1599 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9404B |
| Description: |
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad NW2 9404B at Saint Paul, Minnesota on February 5, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 9404B was built in February 1949 ( c/n 6571 ) as a TR2B. It was returned to EMD in 1954 for the addition of a cab and controls and reclassed as NW2. It became BN 555 and was retired in May 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1966 Upload Date: 8/30/2016 10:44:30 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9404B(NW2) |
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365 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9406B |
| Description: |
CB&Q NW2 9406B at West Burlington, Iowa on September 26, 1965, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built as a TR2B (a cabless NW2) during February 1949 (c/n 6576) on EMD Order E1009B for nine TR2B's, it was delivered drawbar-connected with 9406A as a single 2000 horsepower locomotive, commonly known as a cow-calf set. During 1954, the TR2B's were returned to EMD for the addition of cabs, and were returned as NW2's. The returned units featured a single taper hood and new style cabs and headlights, the spotting feature of the cabs being the rectangular windows over the hood in place of the original NW2's arched windows. The 9400's (9400-9413 A and B) were the only MU equipped NW2's on the Q. This locomotive became BN 559 and was retired during October 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1965 Upload Date: 1/1/2009 1:40:59 PM |
| Location: |
West Burlington, IA |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9406B(NW2) |
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674 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9411B and 9407B in Daytons Bluff |
| Description: |
YardNote, both were built as TR2Bs (cabless calfs) and rebuilt in 1954 to NW2s. |
| Photo Date: |
6/9/1964 Upload Date: 5/29/2007 7:25:04 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9411B(NW2) CBQ 9407B(NW2) |
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1433 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q TR2B 9408B |
| Description: |
CB&Q TR2B 9408B at Knoxville, Illinois on April 2, 1950, photo purchased ages ago from J. R. Gruber, scanned by Chuck Zeiler. This photo shows the original configuration of 9408, a single locomotive built in 1949 as a TR2 cow and calf. This would appear to be the only instance of a single CB&Q locomotive showing both slogans on the same side. The lead unit displays class lights as required by CB&Q rules for road locomotives. The TR2's were broken up in 1954, and the cabless units (CB&Q 9400B-9413B) were returned to EMD for installation of cabs. By that date, the style of the cab had changed to a SW7 style, with rectangular windows over the hood area, as opposed to the arched windows that were on the TR2A's. All the former CB&Q TR2's were re-classed as NW2's. |
| Photo Date: |
4/2/1950 Upload Date: 10/12/2012 2:42:26 PM |
| Location: |
Knoxville, IL |
| Author: |
J. M. Gruber |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9408B(NW2) CBQ 9408A(NW2) |
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| Title: |
BVS 9409A |
| Description: |
No. 9409A is one of 36 EMD TR2 cow-calf units |
| Photo Date: |
8/28/1967 Upload Date: 7/23/2019 11:20:24 AM |
| Location: |
Binkley, MO |
| Author: |
Jeffrey Lawrence |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
BVS 9409A(TR2A) CBQ 9409A(NW2) |
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679 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
climbing up the hill on the NP double track |
| Description: |
this CB&Q transfer was observed climbing the hill out of St Paul and the Great River valley. They were heading west towards Northtown and had just passed Trout Brook Jct and Mississippi Street. Sometimes there were two engines and sometimes three, but this was typical of the way that things were done. And yes, the engines always faced west as they ran around the Twin Cities making connections with other railroads! But one day soon the inbound power from La Crosse would no longer cutoff at Daytons Bluff and the "Red Birds" as they were known would run thru as they took their trains and made their connections with Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. And my time on the Milwaukee Road would be interrupted and cut short by the period of time that I spent in the US Navy Submarine service. But I did not know that when I returned home, that it would be the beginning of 30 years as a trick dispatcher on the Burlington Northern Railroad! |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1969 Upload Date: 5/31/2010 6:45:44 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9411B(NW2) |
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437 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9412A at Daytons Bluff Yard |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/4/1964 Upload Date: 5/29/2007 7:25:05 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412A(NW2) |
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486 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Common sight in the 60s in Pigs Eye |
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| Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 1/6/2011 10:27:59 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Mike Cunningham |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412A(NW2) |
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538 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q in St Paul Daytons Bluff yard in 1968. |
| Description: |
The CB&Q used a trio of SW switchers to run transfers up the BIG HILL in St Pa ul with the GN, NP, CNW, Soo Line and other railroad in the Twin Cities around St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN. The grade out of St. Paul is very steep and I read is as tough a grade as that in the Rocky Mountains. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/1968 Upload Date: 9/8/2011 5:32:16 PM |
| Location: |
Daytons Bluff, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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979 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
working on the lead |
| Description: |
yard engine is taking a caboose somewhere down the lead |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 4:41:56 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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695 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
two yard engines and a caboose |
| Description: |
there were two yard leads on the west end of Daytons Bluff. It looks like one engine is waiting "in the clear" until the other one with the caboose finishes making its move and the lead is then clear for a lite engine. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 4:39:39 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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426 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CBQ 9412B |
| Description: |
Working the caboose track @Dayton's Bluff--- i had no idea that in a few short years the Burlington Northern and Amtrak would come and change the world that i loved!!! |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 8/11/2007 9:53:02 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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1342 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
CBQ 9412B |
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the Burlington was said 2b "Everywhere West"--- and when yard engines left Dayton's Bluff on transfers to other railroads in the Twin Cities- they were often used in multiple unit engine consists each engine always faced the same direction--- WEST!!! Usually there was 2 or 3 but one day i saw a transfer heading to the GN or NP with 7 of these sw1000's and yes they were all facing west!!! Then one day someone decided that "the red birds" meaning the road power from LaCrosse and Chicago- could run thru to the GN @Union Yard and also to the NP @Northtown--- it was a sad day 4me!!! |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 8/11/2007 10:28:28 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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796 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
working the caboose track |
| Description: |
at Daytons Bluff, the yard engine seems to be putting away a couple of wooden cabooses. Notice the pile of coal on the far left probably for the caboose stoves?! The caboose numbers are 13891 and 14332. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 5:49:57 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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849 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q NW2 9413A |
| Description: |
CB&Q NW2 9413A at West Burlington, Iowa on September 29, 1963, photo by Chuck Zeiler. It's almost not fair to call this a locomotive, even the horn has been removed. It was built as a TR2A during November 1949 (c/n 8508), mated with cabless TR2B 9413B, the last TR2 set of 14 (9400A&B through 9413A&B). The TR2's were broken up in 1954, and the B-units were returned to EMD for installation of cabs. They were re-classed as NW2's by the CB&Q, and were the only NW2's on the system with MU&capability. It became BN 572 and was retired September 1983. |
| Photo Date: |
9/29/1963 Upload Date: 6/25/2008 12:11:31 PM |
| Location: |
West Burlington, IA |
| Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9413A(NW2) |
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737 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CB&Q 9413B in Daytons Bluff Yard |
| Description: |
Built as a cabless calf TR2B, rebuilt 1954 with cab. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/1964 Upload Date: 5/29/2007 7:25:07 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Marty Bernard |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9413B(NW2) |
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526 Comments: 1 |
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