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West Central Illinois Railroads in 2003
by Kevin Farmer page #8

see photos #1 thru #3

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#1 thru #3 Respondek #4348 (ex-C&NW) at Litchfield, Ill; originally QNS&L; early Oct. 2003.

#4 UP power backs into the RoadRailer area at Citation while a NS D8-40C arrives with a southbound RoadRailer.

#5 Westbound UP with a tunnel motor trailing an SD40-2 and an unidentified GP at Carpenter.

#6 NS GE #8860 with an eastbound RoadRailer train crossing Wanda Road.

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#7 thru #9 Southbound NS approaching Lenox and waiting for eastbound UP to clear.

#10 NS SD40-2 #6139; trailing unit in photos #7 and #9 above.

#11 Conrail SD40-2, ex-D&RGW SD40-2T, and ex-C&O rebuilt GP38 (UP desig. GP38-3).

#12 Only a chain link fence seperates impressively rebuilt Litchfield station from NS mainline.

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#13 thru #15 Ex-Norfolk & Western SD40 #1585; at Karnes.

#16 A pair of westbound UP SD70M Flares; northwest of Edwardsville.

#17 and #18 TRRA enginehouse area in Venice

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#18 thru #22 CEFX lease SD40 #2813 is seen passing through Litchfield on the NS (#18) and again at Citation.

#23 A Conrail GE northbound with a Triple Crown RoadRailer train at Mt.Olive.

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#24 and #25 Northbound (#24) and southbound (#25) NS passing by the site of former Wabash station in Edwardsville.

#26 thru #28 AZCON Scrap Co. (formerly Hyman Michaels) in Alton; possibly Laclede Steel engines and crane.

#29 Plymouth industrial switcher on blocks; at Conagra, Elevator B (formerly Peavy) on River Road in Alton.

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NW #6161, Sou #3242 (high nose), NW #6075, and unidentified UP EMD

#30 thru #37 Photo study of 3 NS SD40-2's on an eastbound near Karnes. #37 shows Mt.Olive in distance.

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#38 Millenium Rail EMD SW1 #1

#39 NS #5191 (ex-Southern) at Federal Yard in Alton

#40 SP and UP GE units are westbound with an empty unit coal train west of the Carpenter area.

#41 Norfolk Southern GE and an ex-Conrail EMD passing under the UP south of Worden.

#42 and #43 Alton & Southern SW1500 #1503 at Mitchell.

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#44 and #45 NS #5092 (ex-Southern)

#46 A northbound Conrail EMD is leading as a it crosses over I-55 near Staunton.

#47 A BNSF GE and an NS EMD crossing DeCamp Road near Route 4 between Worden and Staunton.

#48 UP power leads an NS southbound at Mitchell.

#49 A pair of ex-Conrail EMDs waits with an intermodel train near Granite City.

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#50 A cut of new Caterpillar heavy equipment is on a southbound NS at Karnes.

#51 UP power is trailed by an ex-BN unit at Caseyville; probably on CSX.

#52 NS GE's are south of Carpenter; taken from Old Carpenter Road.

#53 ---- from Old Carpenter Road (caption later)

#54 and #55 Early morning northbound NS auto parts train; south of Staunton.

Permission and proper credit are necessary to use photos on this page for other 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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