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rebelfdl - Yes I do remember the ex-FRV SD24s and the SD45s quite well. I lived on the south side of town but I often got up near the yard while taking the "scenic route" up to Oshkosh on Hwy. 45. I often speculated that maybe the WC wasn't doing all that well because so many of their "big units" (later after I got back into railroading in earnest I learned they were SD45s) were still in the old BN paint scheme. Later I learned that it was just because those locomotives were being used so often they hadn't much time to repaint them quickly. I took a photo once of a long lashup of both CNW and FRV power (I mean actual CNW power, not ex-CNW under FRV ownership) in the former C&NW yard there adjacent the WC yard. They were performing an air test prior to departing southbound. The crew said they were CNW but I didn't get the reason the train was running - looked like a big power transfer. The lead unit was a CNW 6-axle hood unit, there was one or more other CNW engines, and the rest were FRV including one in the FRV livery (not just CNW paint-out).
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