Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.
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
Dan
Lord Atmo wrote: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 wrote: Lord Atmo wrote: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 completeYes 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.
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.
Picture from the Lord... Atmo
Ok, I must not be very familiar with those remote devices. Is there really a button on the belt pack for rollover and play dead??? Good boy!
CC
Well, the remotes might be "job-eating horrid machines", but looking at your picture I would have to say a posistion just opened up.
Lord Atmo wrote:well i hope the RCOs will stop being used and engineers will be able to keep their jobs. i like how CNW never used these. ah they were such a great road!
The only reason the CNW never used remotes was that it was taken over by the UP before it got the chance.
Bert
An "expensive model collector"
Michael27 wrote:I thought that rco's are supposed to be safer, but I guess anything can happen. I also miss the CNW colors. UP yellow is kind of boring.
Well, IRM is almost done with the restoration of CNW F7 411, here are some pics of it painted, but not yet lettered.
http://www.irm.org/gallery/cnw411paintproj
It's great to see a C&NW F unit preserved.My only ride on the C&NW was on a Chicago to Harvard "scoot" in 1979. It had an F7 and four bi level coaches.
Hey, could anybody please write a nice piece on what Nelson Yard was like way back when? I have heard stories of the hotel at the yard and how it was like stepping back in time when you entered the building.
I am very curious about this as all the old timers talk about this place, and some crazy things that went on there.
Thanks,
Zane
C&NW OLS Engines
MP15DC; 1303, 1304, 1305
GP15-1; 4405, 4410
GP38-2; 4601, 4602, 4604, 4606, 4607, 4614, 4627, 4631
SD18; 6629, 6636
SD38-2; 6652
SD40-2; 6825, 6826, 6886, 6902, 6913, 6930, 6934, 6935
SD50; 7004
SD60; 8029
C42-8; 8551, 8553
C44-9W; 8659, 8717, 8727
AC4400; All 8801-8835; note-CNW 8834 after being repainted to UP 6736, retained its OLS markings
Ya I was sad to see CNW go. Of all 10-11 railroads that existed here in the Twin Cities when I was born in Nov 1958, they were the very last one still around. Seems like all the contacts I had with CNW people were positive. One guy on my block worked in the Omaha Road HQ in Minneapolis, back when I was a kid and would go out trick or treating as an engineer he always got a big kick out of it and gave me a big handfull of white CNW pencils that I used quite proudly at school the whole rest of the school year. (Wish I had kept a few now of course!!). I was happy to be able to get up to Upper Michigan and take pics of the C-628's back in 1986, not long before they were retired.
BTW someone mentioned the Packer/CNW color coincidence earlier...it's interesting that the Packers entered the NFL in 1920, but it wasn't until 1952 that it occured to someone that the GREEN Bay Packers maybe should wear GREEN jerseys. Before that they wore navy blue and gold, colors Notre Dame grad Curly Lambeau borrowed from his alma mater.
Also someone mentioned Chi Bears Blue and Orange, think the RR they were thinking of was the Chicago and Eastern Illinois that wore those colors too, though their blue was a little lighter than the Bears Navy blue...which I assume the Bears wore because George Halas was in the Navy in World War 1.
But hey, even the baseball Philadelphia/Kansas City A's wore dark blue until Charley O Finley bought them in the sixties (and moved them to Oakland).
sheesh why didnt i think to just bring this thread back. sure beats ruining other threads.
but onward to my point. there just isnt enough acknowledgement for the remaining CNW rolling stock and other various CNW equipment. but i've devoted myself to documenting these objects with photos. i'm happy to say the quest goes well. here are some of my "greatest hits":
autoracks arent as common around here. and so far, that one is the only one i have seen thus far. does anyone know if the ABEBE has a lot of these on it?
the 180000 rounded hoppers are also less common up here. however i saw a whole cut of them in altoona once. the above image was part of that cut. most of them were brown. that remains the only time i have seen those brown hoppers. hopefully it wont be the last
here's Altoona's yard office. a CNW building indeed. notice the green signs with yellow wording
oh goodness. i LOVE these hoppers. smaller 2-bays built by pullman standard. i saw a decent few in my past, but just that one so far in my new fanning life.
loved these in my past, love these to this very day. the ex-CRIP 750000 series hoppers. this one here still had its CRIP number visible, which i thought was interesting. the CRIP symbol i always thought was neat on those blue hoppers.
ahhh zito boxcars. i've seen 1 or 2. in short, not enough. that's one of my better pics.
the 175 series hoppers. add this to my list of "stuff i only saw 1 of so far". NWL did an article on these 2 issues back. so it was cool to see this one. anyone know if the green or yellow ones are still around?
check out this bridge. that really is something, isnt it? this is a bridge at West Allis, WI. possibly over 50 years old. i wish i could see a train on it.
CNW property in name only. this sign still stands. as well as other CNW warning signs. and yes that's my hat on it. i thought it would fit the theme.
well that's just the highlights of my CNW photo collection. anyone else documenting rolling stock or otherwise too?
Thanks for sharing the photos. I've seen a fair amount of C&NW equipment in UP's Salt Lake Yard, and passing through on trains. Used to regularly see former North Western locomotives passing through too. Mainly C44-9Ws and AC44CWs, with an occasional SD40-2, and even rarer C40-8. The last "C&NW" locomotive I've recently seen was the UP heritage unit heading north towards Ogden shortly after the "heritage photo shoot" in SLC.
Be sure to check out February's "Difference of Decades" article. There's a great picture of a C&NW coal train on the Powder River line.
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