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| Title: |
CNW 5056 |
| Description: |
Westbound pigs at Wheatland Iowa |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1984 Upload Date: 2/26/2011 3:18:00 AM |
| Location: |
Wheatland, IA |
| Author: |
Tom$Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5056(GP50) CNW 929(SD40) UP 3083(SD40) |
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1480 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Light power past the yard |
| Description: |
A power set off a run through train passed the yard while we were there. Its typical of the era. The GP50s were new at the time. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1982 Upload Date: 3/3/2013 3:07:45 AM |
| Location: |
Chicago, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 2501(C30-7) CNW 5058(GP50) CNW 5076(GP50) |
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668 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Away from home |
| Description: |
For years before UP merged CNW, they pooled power, dating back to streamliner days. In the modern era, the pool was on freights, most often pig trains. Sometimes UP would commandeer a unit for something else. Im not sure if thats what happened here, or this was a bad order unit that got set out-GP50s were high priority power in those days. Either way, this one looks lost and forlorn on a rainy siding in Central City. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1984 Upload Date: 7/10/2014 1:54:32 AM |
| Location: |
Central City, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5061(GP50) |
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607 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
This is different |
| Description: |
CNW power was not common on the Tier. On the Chicago Line, youd see it fairly often on PXSE or NPSE, both connections off Union Pacific that used the Northwestern to bridge the gap from Fremont Neb to Chicago, with the power running through. These guys got lost somehow, and wound up on OIBU, stopped here at Owego to check for a hot journal on one of its 119 cars, the train having tripped the detector at MP 230.45 near Campville. Too bad it wasnt an hour earlier-the light would have been ideal!! |
| Photo Date: |
10/6/1990 Upload Date: 1/29/2016 4:39:32 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5063(GP50) CNW 6840(SD40-2) CR 6006(C39-8) UP 3795(SD40-2) |
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851 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Bridging the gap |
| Description: |
Conrail, CNW, and UP participated in a run through train from Elkhart Ind to North Platte on the UP, symbolled ELNP. To get through Chicago, it used the Indiana Harbor Belt to get over the gap from CR to CNW. Here it is with all three component roads power having just rolled under the BN. This type of consist was typical. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1987 Upload Date: 5/13/2015 3:50:17 AM |
| Location: |
La Grange, IL |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 5073(GP50) UP 3257(SD40-2) CR 6625(C36-7) CR 6375(SD40-2) |
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1335 Comments: 0 |
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