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Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific
by Kevin Farmer 2003 page #7

West Central Illinois area in 2003

Lenox (photos #7 thru #11)

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#1 Northbound NS near Staunton Road on the southwest side of Worden.

#2 and #3 Northbound near Old Carpenter Road (power ID later)

#4 NS D9-40CW #9166 pulling out of Citation with ballast cars.

#5 Roadrailer with NS SD40-2 #3194 and EMDX GP38-2 #761

#6 CIPX coal

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#7 thru #11 Lenox Tower at Mitchell, Ill; Sept. 2003; (NS, UP and GWRR)

#12 NS D9-40CW #9669 at Citation.

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#13 thru #15 UP SD70M Flare #4915 and SD70M #4689; entering A&S southbound at Washington Park.

#16 and #17 D9-40CW #9254 on Roadrailer has 25 year logo of Operation Lifesaver.

#18 Karnes / #8363

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#19 and #20 Southbound NS passing the former Wabash station site on the north side of Edwardsville.

#21 Two variations of EMD's SD70M are on eastbound UP freight at Green Hedge Rd, east of Carpenter.

#22 and #23 GWRR GP38-2 #2101 and KCS GP40 #4821 on former PRR / Conrail at Washington Park.

#24 Mt.Olive can be seen in distance as a northbound NS leaves Karnes.

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#25 and #26 Two NS northbounds waiting to leave Citation.

#27 thru #34 Photo study of various units from #25 and #26; Photos #27 and #28 show D9-40CW and D9-40C
side by side and is a good comparison of both models.

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#35 thru #37 NS leaving north at Citation; GP59, UP SD40-2 (former SD40-2H), and Canadian built SD70.

#38 NS pulling out of the RoadRailer assembly area at Citation; train also seen in background of photo #34.

#39      NS RoadRailer at Winston (approx 1 mile south of Litchfield). A tower once stood at this location and it was the
           point that the Litchfield & Madison ended. Track in left distance went into Litchfield and the L&M ran over the
           Chicago, Burlington & Quincy from this point to the CB&Q yard area to interchange freight.

#40 (caption later)

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#41 thru #43    Zero road dirt is on freshly painted D9-40CW #9792 approaching Ruger (north of Staunton); middle
                         unit is one of the ex-N&W SD40's equipped for hump service and use with a slug (numerous changes
                         are visible); D9-40CW #9165 is trailing.

#44 thru #46 (caption later)

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#47 thru #50 NS with a D9-40CW and BNSF D9-44CW is seen leaving Citation and then again passing through the
north side of Edwardsville. BNSF power in background in photo #46 is in both Heritage paint schemes.

#51 and #52 RoadRailer is coming onto the main at Ruger and is seen again at the south end of Citation.

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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