The Chicago & North Western Wall of Memories

[railfanespee4449]

I think it's a DASH-9- look at the trucks, but I'm not sure

I've seen a lot of patched CNW stuff recently- check this stuff out.

[chicagorails]

 saw the the cnw "ace" rolling thru rochelle yesterday west at 1130am. pulling a mix frt.  that engine needs to be doing justice in respect of cnw, let her pull a high life porky piggy or stack, not a lowly  dirty graffiti,marked train.

[Lord Atmo]

you are? are you patching UP locomotives?

oh man. i might end up missing UP and hating CNW if that happened. ARRRGH!

well the point is i miss CNW. but yeah show us the HO stuff when you have it complete

Yes I am doing this as though CNW bought UP.  I have already purchased a "Centennial" diesel in full UP livery that'll be the first repaint.  I have two -9's, and a -8 (and I know you LOVE them) spartan cab that will be patched.  Ball and Bar on green background under the cab window....should be fun!  I'll post pics when I have them.

now now now. i may say i like spartan cabs and nothing else, but the fact is i like all locomotives, just some more than others. widecabs and spartan cabs are both nice. "ugly" was a step too far on my part and i apologize. i'm a fan of variety and was just mad that all that remains of CNW is widecabs. but i DO like them as well. i find it is not easy to hate any kind of train (aside from green goats. eeewww) and i like when  a GE widecab shows up in Altoona. i dont see them often. ok actually the widecabs i stone hate are SD60Ms. but that's probably it. no that IS it. but enough of my incoherant ramblings

are you patching any of the UP stuff? that should be interesting to see. i cant wait to see the pictures

[nordique72]

The CNW GP7 4120 on Trailryder's webpage is at a grain elevator in Seward, IL (on the CN's ex-IC Chicago-Dubuque main line)

[CNW 6000]

you are? are you patching UP locomotives?

oh man. i might end up missing UP and hating CNW if that happened. ARRRGH!

well the point is i miss CNW. but yeah show us the HO stuff when you have it complete

Yes I am doing this as though CNW bought UP.  I have already purchased a "Centennial" diesel in full UP livery that'll be the first repaint.  I have two -9's, and a -8 (and I know you LOVE them) spartan cab that will be patched.  Ball and Bar on green background under the cab window....should be fun!  I'll post pics when I have them.

[Lord Atmo]

you are? are you patching UP locomotives?

oh man. i might end up missing UP and hating CNW if that happened. ARRRGH!

well the point is i miss CNW. but yeah show us the HO stuff when you have it complete

[CNW 6000]

Nice photos!  Can you PM me and tell me where the GP-7 is?  That brings back some awesome memories!  I love the MOW pictures too...I've never seen any MOW with CNW on them.  May I save some of those for my modeling purposes?  I'm doing CNW as though they bought UP in HO gauge.

[Trailryder]

After watching this thread for a week or so I have been inspired to start a new photo gallery showcasing the Remnants of the Chicago & Northwestern System.

In this gallery you will find bridges, buildings and those pieces of equipment that have managed to retain some form of their Chicago and Northwestern identity.

All of the photos have been taken since May 2005, eventually i will enter the dates and  locations

Your comments are appreciated, as I am no Expert

http://www.pbase.com/trailryder/cnw

 

Later Bill

 

 

[Lord Atmo]

well 8701 went to JEnks shop a few months ago and that was when we were all worried that it would emerge in armour yellow. but they instead touched up its CNW paint. i think maybe they painted the roof green again when they did that.

and i'm starting to think foul play was involved in the patching of 8575. why would hinkle not patch the hood numbers if the locomotive was scheduled to be patched?

[CNW 6000]

Hey...I was looking at pics of 1995, 8701, and 8646 the other day and couldn't find any grey paint anywhere on 8701.  Am I merely missing it?  I've looked at about a dozen and a half photos of both sides as well as the front and back.  I'm not complaining but just curious if anyone else noticed that.

[ShopsYardMaster]

uhhh BOTH! the carbody moreso however because that's just old school CNW. but a STEAMER would make my day.

About the only " servicable" C&NW steamer left is the 1385 at North Freedom, WI (MidContinent RR museum), and it's been down for rebuild since about 1997. The museum has put it 3 rd in line for overhaul, behind 2 smaller engines, and the first of those isn't scheduled to return to service for at least a few more years.

[blhanel]

Brian, a good time to see the mueseum will be August 19-20 9am-5pm. Oelwein's annual RR days.

I'll put that on my calendar!

[cr6479]

me neither. i want to see that GP7 though. really badly

I miss those CNW GP7 engines.

[Lord Atmo]

uhhh BOTH! the carbody moreso however because that's just old school CNW. but a STEAMER would make my day.

[Anonymous]

Brian, a good time to see the mueseum will be August 19-20 9am-5pm. Oelwein's annual RR days.

 

LA, I take you mean FP7?

[Lord Atmo]

me neither. i want to see that GP7 though. really badly

[blhanel]

I should have seen it by now- heck, I'm only 30 miles away- but I didn't even know it existed.

[Lord Atmo]

wow i need to go to see that museum

[Anonymous]

No, the mueseum is on the opposite side of the tracks

The yard tower was restored a few years ago and the mueseum is the brick building behind the tower.

[cr6479]

Is UP 9798 EX-CNW #8694 a DASH 8????

[cr6479]

If you look close in the last photo you can read the on EX-CNW now UP 9798. CNW# 8694

[railfanespee4449]

If you want to see a patched CNW SW (Now ADM 1218)  go to the ADM plant in Des Moines, IA

Here are some CNW units I've seen recently

 

[jeffhergert]

 Here are a couple of links to what they have in Oelwein.  

 http://www.cgwo.org

 and

http://www.oelwein.com/railroad.php

Jeff

[cr6479]

That last pic does look like museum, but i am too sure.

[Lord Atmo]

there's a museum there?

[wctransfer]

Wow! Dingoix thanks for posting that! That last shot makes you feel like your there! Is that the museum part?

Alec

[Anonymous]

Ah, the legendary ex-CGW Oelwein shops. CNW rebuilt so many GP7s & GP9s there.

The south end of the "running repair" shop

 

North end

 

South side of the main shop

 

I've got a few more pics, but that's enough for now.

[nordique72]

yeah i think there's a few high hoods out there too and maybe a SW1500 which i would LOVE to find. a transportation museum in IL has a GP& on display, as i have said before. and i hope it's a high hood. wasnt EMD's very first geep ever made a GP& purchased by CNW? i think that one's actually still around in full CNW paint too and how bout that Alton and Southern?

 

Atmo- please see my previous post regarding CNW's SW1500. There may be some MP15DCs in patch paint still left as UPY units (1315-1328)- but there is no CNW SW1500 around in green and yellow. There are quite a few CNW GP7s floating around still- had CNW 4130 come through Houston in February, bound to a new contract switching assignment by it's new owner.

GP7 1518 is kind of a "born again" high hood unit- the CNW rebuilt it at Oelwein, IA and renumbered it the 4311 and chopped it's nose. In 1987 the unit was retired and IRM aquired it from CNW- as part of the deal CNW sent it back to Oelwein, rebuilt the high nose and repainted it as the 1518 (not a perfect reproduction of the original scheme- but good enough!). It is now at IRM being fully backdated to it's original appearance in their shop (pics are on the IRM site.) The 1518 is the first production GP7- a main reason why IRM got it.

Alton and Southern was once a joint venture owned by CNW and MP- the paint scheme was a combination of CNW's and MP's (using CNW yellow and MP blue) as was the logo (a CNW bar over an MP buzzsaw). The CNW sold it's interest in A&S to the SP in the early 70's- but still utilized them as their main St. Louis connection.

[Lord Atmo]

ah CNW will come back. now if only UP would retire an SD40-2 with the bell on the nose and that a museum would restore its CNW colors

[n012944]

yeah i think there's a few high hoods out there too and maybe a SW1500 which i would LOVE to find. a transportation museum in IL has a GP& on display, as i have said before. and i hope it's a high hood. wasnt EMD's very first geep ever made a GP& purchased by CNW? i think that one's actually still around in full CNW paint too

and how bout that Alton and Southern?

Illinois Railway Museum has CNW 1518 the first GP7 on hand.  It is currently undergoing restoration.  They also have CNW F7 411 which is getting repainted right now and should be back on the property in the next week. 

 

Bert