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Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific
by Kevin Farmer 2003 page #4

West Central Illinois area in 2003

Wabash Road -Worden

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#1 and #2 SD70M #4849 and SD60M #6231 lead a westbound UP; Lindenbroker Road area, near Rte 4.

#3 and #4 Eastbound UP SD70M #4727 and C40-8 #9296 crossing over Staunton Rd and near Livingston Dr.

#5 Early AM southbound RoadRailer is near the former DeCamp Jct. area on Rte 4; A tower at DeCamp Jct at one time handled a crossing of the C&NW / L&M with the Wabash and Illinois Terminal.

#6 Northbound NS coal train waits on signal at Staunton; a pair of D9-40CW's sandwich a D9-40C for power.

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#7 and #8 Westbound UP with ex-C&NW C44-9W and SD70M near Carpenter and at Rte 4 / Lamb Road area.

#9 and #10 Northbound UP power on the NS; south of the DeCamp area with an SD70M, C40-8 and unidentified GE.

#11 and #12 RoadRailer with D9-40C #8879 northbound at Spangle Rd, south of Staunton in DeCamp area.
Photo #12 is to show connection between trailers.

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#13 and #14 RoadRailer with D9-40CW #9422 prepares to leave northbound from the Poag Jct area.

#15 thru #17 Same train as previous 2 photos is seen later passing through the north side of Edwardsville.

#18 Beings the previous 7 photos are of NS RoadRailer trains this LeClaireRail photo from 1996 has been added.

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#19 Southbound NS passing through Worden; SD60M #6766 and D9-40CW #9124.

#20 "Old" NS power is northbound on the southwest side of Carpenter; SD40-2 #6152 and ex-Southern GP38-2 #5034.

#21 and #22 Matched GE units lead by D9-40CW #9430 are seen SB at Worden and at Carpenter (same train).

#23 and #24 UP power EB at Livingston is B40-8 #5649 (ex-SSW), SD40-2 #3334, and SD40T-2 #5368 (orig. D&RGW).

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#25 thru #29 Photo study of ex-N&W SD40-2 #6103 and 6113; waiting to start north from Poag Jct.

#30 Southbound RoadRailer with ex-N&W SD40 #1600 at Lamb Road, north of Worden.

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#31 and #32 NS D9-40CW #9242 is matched up with a UP SD70M; southbound at Schein Rd near Worden.

#33 and #34 Leased former Conrail (PRRX) C40-8W #8443 is leaving north out of the RoadRailer facility near Poag.

#35 NS (ex-Conrail, CRCX) C40-8W #8372 is at Spangle Road in the DeCamp area with double stack containers.

#36 UP C40-8 #9269 and SD60 #2160 eastbound at Old Carpenter Road with an intermodal train.

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#37 thru #39 NS meet at Karnes (south of Mt.Olive); photo #37 shows southbound approaching with D9-40CW and
SD60 while photos #38 and #39 are of northbound train leaving with D9-40C and D9-40CW.

#40 thru #42 Northbound coal empties are at Renken Road on the SW side of Staunton; track is the former C&NW
just north of the DeCamp area and was originally Litchfield & Madison.

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#43 thru #48 Series of 6 photos shows a northbound working at Karnes; #46 thru #48 show trailing SD40-2 #6106.

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#49 and #50 Southbound NS arrives at Karnes and meets northbound coal train.

#51 Northbound NS leaving Karnes.

#52 Southbound with auto racks at Bentrup Road in Staunton with lone NS SD70 #2541.

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#54 Two Union Pacific GE variations that includes #9047 (ex-C&NW) are eastbound at Carpenter.

Permission and proper credit are necessary to use photos on this page for pther purposes.

NOTE -- Locomotives on this page use the Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific model designations and various locomotive directories from Withers Publishing are used for identification. Model designations from these railroads are easily matched up to both EMD and GE models due to their similarity.

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