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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern
Model:EMD SD9Built As:CNW 1723 (SD9)
Serial Number:20689Order No:5405
Frame Number:5405-3Built:11/1955
Notes:ex-CNW 1723, 6613
Other locos with this serial:  CNW 6613(SD9) DME 6613(SD9) CNW 1723(SD9)
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Long look
Title:  Long look
Description:  WAMCA rolls slowly toward Mason City as seen across a wide cornfield.
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/15/2015 3:49:20 AM
Location:  Otisco, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DME 549(SD10) DME 6613(SD9)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
Out in the field
Title:  Out in the field
Description:  WAMCA rolls 40 cars south at the breakneck speed of 10 MPH as it makes its way through the fields of southern Minnesota behind classic power.
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 3:30:19 AM
Location:  Otisco, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DME 549(SD10) DME 6613(SD9)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Leaving the yard
Title:  Leaving the yard
Description:  DM&E train WAMCA, a Waseca-Mason City IA job, is leaving the Waseca yard early in the morning for its 10 MPH jaunt to Mason City.
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:50:52 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DME 549(SD10) DME 6613(SD9)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
Getting underway
Title:  Getting underway
Description:  WAMCA gets started with its 40 car train for Mason City.
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 2:53:45 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  DME 549(SD10) DME 6613(SD9)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
Ready
Title:  Ready
Description:  My notes don't show a symbol for this train, but it had the power on and was ready to go somewhere. The power is typical of the hand me down diesels DM&E started with, and it was good to see all these first generation units working, many still in full CNW paint.
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 3:06:11 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6602(SD9) DME 6613(SD9) DME 6614(SD9)
Views:  353   Comments: 0
In the corn
Title:  In the corn
Description:  WAMCA has just left Waseca yard and is parting the sea of corn as it rolls slowly toward Mason City behind what was then one of a very few-if notthe only-DM&E painted unit.
Photo Date:  6/23/1987  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 3:33:56 AM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DME 549(SD10) DME 6613(SD9)
Views:  367   Comments: 0


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