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| Peter Zimmermann posted
Coaler Illinois:
Located about 80 miles south of Chicago on the old C&EI main line, coaler still exists today on the UP timetable with some yard tracks for local set outs by UP and CSX trains that ply the main line today, the coaling facility is long gone.
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| Alan Jones posted NS 9800 working the Taylorville ADM. Long morning of stacking the yard to capacity. [With four locomotives, I wonder if this train services multiple elevators along the former Wabash route. On the other hand, maybe that yard can hold a complete unit train. CSX refused to serve the smaller elevators along its L&N route in Illinois. But the shortline that now runs that route is more than willing to do several smaller cuts of cars for the existing elevators. BNSF helped build elevators in Ransom and Toluca to handle unit trains of grain along the former Santa Fe route. CN does seem willing to service smaller existing elevators along its former IC route.] |
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| Jim Yasinski posted C&IM SW1200 No. 21 being used to switch the ADM elevator north of Taylorville, Illinois. Mid 1980's. Engine was shut down at time of photo. Photo taken along E. Esther Street. I remember the Allis Chalmers/ Fiat Allis plant would use a C&IM switcher when their Plymouth switcher was broken down. Also remember when in grade school the tracks were still there between CIMIC and Auburn. Ryan Crawford: I think I know what’s going on here, CIPS power plant in coffeen leased a CIM switcher for a short while and I think this unit is headed to coffeen via NW and nkp trackage.Bill Crisp: This is the most likely explanation. Looks like it’s set up for a southbound pickup. I don’t believe the grain elevator was allowed to switch cars out on the N&W tracks. Kristopher Isaac Barrington shared |
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| Vintage Indiana Postcards posted Bag Factory in Goshen, IN - still open with various shops: |
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Indiana Landmarks Flickr, CopyleftOld Bag Factory, Goshen
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| Marla Brenneman Wonderful time watching the trains at the Bag Factory! |
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| Peter Zimmermann posted
Wanatah Indiana:
The tower and Monon station at Wanatah. This was the PRR "Fort Wayne" main line that was the famous "Broadway Limited" route while the Monon was their main line to Michigan City Indiana.
The PRR line today is the regional road, Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern Railway while the Monon line was abandoned by Seaboard System in 1980
Dennis DeBruler The town had a flour mill, so that must be the "mill" building in the center. http://www.wanatah.org/land.php Dennis DeBruler While researching what type of mill that building was, I came across a page of more photos. Note that it includes an interior shot of the tower. http://www.monon.monon.org/bygone/wanatah.html |
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| Carl Venzke posted Denver, Colorado, 1958 Glen Brewer Carl, do you know who was the photographer? Carl Venzke I think it might be a Fred Springer but I can't be sure. Dennis DeBruler As with Chicago, the Meadow Gold cold storage building is still standing because the thick walls make it too expensive to tear down. Dennis DeBruler The white building in the right background is part of the Union Station. The black lines in the background would be the old platform covers. |
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| Ricard Garcia posted [The comments agree that this was in Denver.] LIVE GAME CS posted This is what the BN Denver locomotive terminal looked like in July of 1982. It will be 10+ years before the ubiquitous SD70MAC will take over, so everything is green, with a wide variety of EMD products represented. Photo Credit to Robert Palmer. Roger Eyrich shared |
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| American-Rails.com posted Burlington Northern's engine facility in Denver, Colorado, circa 1983. Mike Bledsoe photo. American-Rails.com collection. Allen Schroeter: Wondered how much all those locomotives would cost. Then checked to see what they currently go for..... How much do locomotives cost? A diesel locomotive could cost from $500,000-$2 million. While an electric locomotive could cost more than $6 million. Price depends on whether it is powered by AC or DC traction, how much horsepower it has, or what electronics it is equipped with. Timothy D. Sievern posted Lots of Burlington Northern motive power at rest at the railroad's engine facility in Denver, Colorado, circa 1983. |
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| Duane Heltemes commented on a post Daughter is a yard master there and she sent me a picture of what it looks like today.... |
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| Center for Railroad Photography & Art posted An amazing display of Burlington and Great Northern color was captured in Denver, Colorado, by Ronald C. Hill on June 13, 1970, soon after the Burlington Northern merger. This Kodachrome scene is a favorite of our associate archivist Heather Sonntag, who is nearing completion of digitizing and cataloging the Hill Collection. “When I first saw this elevated view onto the Burlington Northern yard from 23rd Street in Denver, I immediately knew it was another Ron Hill zinger. Those colors! The amazing layers of composition! The array of locomotives and rail cars! I love how Ron filled the frame over 50 years ago, that still keeps the eyes moving from corner to corner and edge to edge.” Hill shot this on Kodachrome II with a Leica M-4 and 50mm f/2 Summicron lens. (Hill-12-01-17). In mid-July, Heather and lead archivist Adrienne Evans will begin work on the Steinheimer Collection. Randal Foster: Wow. You can just barely see the switch/track on the left of the photo that went to the wash rack. By the time I worked out of Denver in the mid 90’s, it was gone. The new bridge was just completed and half of the roundhouse was removed. We did still use the turntable to turn power sometimes. Good memories! |
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| MP Rail Photography posted The BNSF Engine Facility in Denver is crowded with a variety of paint schemes and power, including two SD40s still painted in BN green and one Geep painted in the ATSF "freightbonnet" scheme. May 5, 2024 Denver, CO Power of Note: BNSF 1958 - SD40-2 (Former BN 6351) - Lower Center BNSF 2854 - GP39-2 (Former ATSF 3640 in "Freightbonnet") - Center BNSF 1656 - SD40-2 (Former BN 7058) - Center BNSF 522 - B40-8W - Center Left Dennis DeBruler: There are several H1 locomotives as well. I've never seen that many standard cab locomotives in one place before. |
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| Daren Genau commented on Tim's post This is the Q passenger car shop now used as the roundhouse. Look north of the I-25/I-70 interchange and on the west side of I 25. North end of DRGW yard is the belt line headed east to the UP/Rock Island. Come back south a bit to find the Q shops. [Daren's comment confused both Tim and me.] |
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| Richard Crabtree posted Here we see Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Roundhouse & Yard. We see: CB&Q No. 61 2-6-0 H-2 Mogul (1895 Aurora) CB&Q No. 5040 2-8-2 O-1 Mikado (Baldwin 1910) CB&Q No. 3031 2-8-0 D-7 Consolidation (Baldwin 1903) 1918 Denver, Colorado DPLDC Paul Kakazu: Thank you, Richard Crabtree, for all these beautiful colorizations you've been posting. Do you get complaints from purists? I think your work really brings these images to life. Richard Crabtree: Paul Kakazu oh yes they think the world was all black and white before 1935 and then it magically became color 😉 Richard Crabtree shared Richard Crabtree shared Michael Decker: It looks like #61 is being used as the 'shop goat', with a saddle tank replacing the tender, and footboards behind the cab. |
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| Darren Hansen posted Aerial view of Denver. (1965) Bill Johnson: We watched from the roof of Aurora Central High School as whole sections on Denver would “black out” as the flood waters along the South Platte would knock out one power station after another. Rickey Lee Kalinowski: I lived on Dartmouth and Santa Fe. Sorta. Wiped Sheridan out. Insane water like 38 foot rise in the Platte then the New Hampden bridge went out Insane. Damon Lester: Likely a day or two after the '65 flood on June 16th. My late brother and I would go down to Denargo Market to get vegetables for our parents bar and cafe. Denver Tomato and other firms were washed clean and had to rebuild. The area is now called River North, I believe |
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| Gary Sturm posted Penn Central #6087 with Union Pacific engines trailing passes BEND Tower eastbound at South Bend, Indiana, Indiana in 1974. Dennis DeBruler That was a long tower. It must have had a lot of levers. https://www.google.com/.../@41.6694365,-86.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Satellite it was along South St. between Scott and Taylor Streets on the north side of the tracks [IndianaRailroads] |
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| Mark Hinsdale posted In January, 1980, an eastbound Conrail manifest train passes "HF" (renamed "BEND") Tower in South Bend, Indiana. This section of Conrail's busy Buffalo to Chicago main line also hosted Grand Trunk Western trains between Michigan points and Chicago, which shared trackage with Conrail across a one mile long grade separated corridor through South Bend. That same arrangement still exists today, between successors Norfolk Southern and Canadian National. January, 1980 photo by Mark Hinsdale Mark Hinsdale shared Mark Hinsdale shared |
This is the railroad control tower in South Bend, about 1929. There were a lot of improvements in rail service in South Bend at this time. The track originally had been at street level. It was elevated in 1928, as we see it today, and this tower controlled the switches for the track in that area. The westbound locomotive in the photo is a New York Central "Pacific" class pulling a passenger train. It was during this time that Union Station was built too.
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| 1 New York Central control tower at South Bend. Photo credit Bob Albert Collection. |
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| 2 The control levers inside the tower. These controlled the switches in the rail yard. |
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| 3 This display shows the status of the switches of the yard at South Bend. |
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| 4 The foundation and steps are all that remain of the South Bend tower. The building was on the hillside along the north side of the tracks on South Street, just before Scott Street. |
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| Bob Finan updated Grand Trunk Western #4906 West passing BEND Tower at South Bend, Indiana in 1977. Gary Sturm Photograph © 1977. Brian A Morgan: Once past High Street the GTW is back upon home rails. Brian A Morgan: Charles Geletzke Jr. Looks like the train is Westbound. That's the Studebaker Plant behind the consist. |
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Conrail Bend Tower stood near South Street in South Bend Indiana into the 90's. An important control and communications link for Conrail and Grand Trunk Western trains using shared trackage here. Control now automated and communications handled out of Elkhart. Only foundation remains.Photo by Conrail Historical Society taken by Doug DavidsonFor rare scanner audio of Bend Tower talk in action see https://youtu.be/qetPnnAe_WM
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| MichiganRailroads "'HF' Tower was built in 1930, when the GTW abandoned their own line through downtown South Bend. This was the original crossing of the GTW and NYC. It was upgraded with a new tower and interlocking machine and became a junction rather than a crossing....The new interlocking plant was constructed by General Railway Signal Co. and was a Model 5-B electric interlocking machine, having 259 working 'pistol-grip' style levers and 9 spare levers in a 304 lever frame. 36 levers in this machine were reserved for a planned extension to operate the 'MC Connection' via remote control, to be installed in 1935. The model board was 24 feet long." |
