The Chicago & North Western Wall of Memories

[Lord Atmo]

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?

[Anonymous]

 Does that GP-7 still have a short, high nose?  

    

It's a high nose.

[CNW534]

UP never said it was closed to the public. they just said that it was open to employees. but nowhere did it say "employees only". do that trip. i have a feeling you wont be let down. spend some quality time with your father. i kow you'll se that locomotive whether it's at the ceremony or not

 

It's too late.  I live 50 miles west of you.  In the  up to unveil cnw heritage locomotive sd70ace......  thread, it was mentioned that you need a UP employee ID to get in. Mark

[Lord Atmo]

UP never said it was closed to the public. they just said that it was open to employees. but nowhere did it say "employees only". do that trip. i have a feeling you wont be let down. spend some quality time with your father. i kow you'll se that locomotive whether it's at the ceremony or not

[CNW534]

8 hours and counting!!!

 

I'm a little pissed that UP would only allow UP employees, retirees, and family to the unveiling.  We cancelled our father-son road trip after I read that here.  They essentially blew off the C&NW folks.  My dad wanted to see it SO bad.  He retired from the C&NW in 1994 after working for them for 42 years.

Thanks a lot, UP. 

Mark

[Lord Atmo]

8 hours and counting!!!

[jeffhergert]

Another CNW junk sighting to report.  GP-7 4160 rusting away at Janesville yard.  Last week there were two CNW engines sitting in Belvidere yard.  They're most likely gone now. 

 Does that GP-7 still have a short, high nose?  The elevator at Ralston, Iowa has two ex-CNW GP-7s that had there noses chopped after being sold off. One is/was still in CNW paint, the other in a solid blue. One of the elevators at Fremont, Nebraska also has ex-CNW GP-7, still in CNW paint, nose chopped. All retain there CNW number.

 Many of those 4100 series GP-7s were ex-Rock Island. Most were rebuilt by the RI in the late 70s and retained there high nose. When the CNW acquired them, they shopped them but didn't chop the noses. I myself, liked the high nose better on the early geeps.

 Since this is a CNW thread and I'm a RI fan, I'll stop here.

 Except, that I saw an ex-Rock blue box car that the CNW repainted into the yellow scheme. Except for the ends, still blue. Must have needed that car real bad.

  Jeff 

    

[nordique72]

cr6479- the engines your are seeing are patched AC4400CWs- the 8801-8835 units all came delivered with OLS decals and quite a few of these are still patched in CNW paint.

[cr6479]

I have seen alot of CNW engines w/ theoperation Life Saver on them.

[cr6479]

it has always been a fallen flag since evenb before this topic was started. CNW is dead as far as UP's fleet goes with what little remains of it scattered across the US.  if i ever get a terminal illness, i will be  illegally slapping CNW stickers on the patched UP locomotives. because then it wouldnt matter if i went to jail as soon i will just succumb to the illness.

WELL... Conrail is a fallen flag befor i posted CONRAIL THEARD.

[nordique72]

Btw- is CNW's Operation Life Saver C44-9W now in a coat of UP Armour Yellow?

Repainted into UP yellow as 9821 in May 2001.

[nordique72]

Well let's see- CNW had one SW1500, the 1301. Purchased from Minnesota Transfer in 1973- it went to NRE in 1985 who then sold it to the Marinette,Tomahawk & Western Railway in 1987 (now the Tomahawk Rwy.) as their 1587. UP never had this engine on their roster- they only had the CNW's MP15DCs.

 

[Anonymous]

Another CNW junk sighting to report.  GP-7 4160 rusting away at Janesville yard.  Last week there were two CNW engines sitting in Belvidere yard.  They're most likely gone now. 

[Lord Atmo]

it has always been a fallen flag since evenb before this topic was started. CNW is dead as far as UP's fleet goes with what little remains of it scattered across the US.  if i ever get a terminal illness, i will be  illegally slapping CNW stickers on the patched UP locomotives. because then it wouldnt matter if i went to jail as soon i will just succumb to the illness.

[cr6479]

It is sad to see CNW become a fallen flag

[cr6479]

Looks like CNW is becoming a conrail a fallen flag

[Cris_261]

Last time I saw a CNW unit was a C44-9W with the "patch job" renumbering, UP shield sticker for the front end, and the original number blanked out with gray primer. Aside from those aberrations, the rest of the unit looked pretty good.

Btw- is CNW's Operation Life Saver C44-9W now in a coat of UP Armour Yellow?

[Lord Atmo]

well considering CNW is becoming harder and harder to photograph. anyone know about a CNW SW1500 left? sold off of UP's fleet before it was patched or repainted. one of those all out there

[cr6479]

CNW real good photos are really hard to find.

[CNW 6000]

That's ok.  A picture would be too much to hope for!  No worries man.

[cr6479]

The numbers were very very very hard to read.

[CNW 6000]

Still cool tho...what were the #'s?

[cr6479]

Near Proviso?

No in rochester ny.

[CNW 6000]

Near Proviso?

[cr6479]

Today i saw 2 CNW on UP pulling a piggyback train heading westbound.

2 CNW with UP heading eastbound auto rack cars.

[cr6479]

Today i saw 2 CNW on UP pulling a piggyback train heading westbound.

[nordique72]

Incidently, I have a photo of one of the RI speed lettered covered hoppers w/CNW reporting marks, except that it's not one of the smooth-sided hoppers.

Cris,

Glad to hear you've got an example on film- as for the smooth side centerflows, CNW only briefly leased some of the 800000 series ACF centerflow hoppers from the RI trustees before returning them. (CNW never seemed to excited about centerflow grain hoppers- only leasing a small fleet in the 172000 series, which were off the roster by 1987. Cement centerflows were a different story...)  Most of the other RI centerflows were UP financed so they went straight to UP after the bankruptcy. CNW only purchased Pullman-Standard 4750 cuft and 4740 cuft ribside hoppers from RI trustees.  

Matt Holman

Spring, TX

[Cris_261]

Thanks for the info nordique, and for the link to the photo fuzzybroken!

Incidently, I have a photo of one of the RI speed lettered covered hoppers w/CNW reporting marks, except that it's not one of the smooth-sided hoppers.

[Lord Atmo]

which were they? UP repainted most of them completely. only 4 patched SD40-2s left and 3.5 C40-8s. ("8575" is still on the long hood!) and a few others. i saw a patched SD40-2 once. it made me sad seeing the great look ruined by more yellow than it needed to have and the loss of the ball and bar. but the ones that are owned by leasing companies are not too bad. save for the black square on the nose. i will never accept armour yellow as the better and cooler look to these units. it looked nice when it wasnt everywhere...

[cr6479]

Hey Lord Atmo. I have seen some CNW engines but they are patched numbers not the road name.