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2003 Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific in West Central Illinois p.#1    p.#2    p.#3    p.#4    p.#5    p.#6 New 9/8/03

Edwardsville, Ill. and area  -  various subjects

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#1    NKP Edwardsville station after closing and before being moved.

#2    N&W Century series Alco #1001 at Edwardsville.

#3    Westbound pauses at ex-NKP station during switching.

#4    Former NKP RS-11 #850 is middle unit of train in above photos.

#5    N&W GP-18 #513.

#6    N&W GP-30 #564 as seen from LeClaire tower.

#7    BN coal train passing through Edwardsville in 1978 on the C&NW (L&M).

#8    Burlinton Northern SD-7 #6029;  trailing unit on train in photo #7.

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#9    Union Pacific U30C #2915 on C&NW train #386;  relatively early pool power.

#10    C&NW ballast tamper working at LeClaire;  as seen from tower.

#11    Illinois Terminal SW1200 #1205 leads a train past LeClaire.

#12    Paducah rebuilt GP-9 #1750 is the trailing unit in photo #11.

#13    Former L&M mainline northbound out of Edwardsville before reballasting by C&NW.

#14    Position light signal on ex-Pennsylvania RR near Collinsville, IL;  PennCentral / Conrail.

#15    Abandoned trackage & bridge over Conrail near Collinsville.

#16    Former GM&O station at Alton, IL  --  now Amtrak

Norfolk Southern on ex-Wabash;  Staunton, Ill. area, early 2003;   SD60 #6680, GP59 #4606 (ex-EMD demo EMD-8),      GP38-2 #5106, and SD50S #6503.    2 rare EMD models in one train -- Only 3 GP59's built and only 6 of the SD60S model.      --- (SD50S was the 2' shorter pre-production version on the SD50).

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Cumbres & Toltec RR and other Colo. misc.

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#1 and #2    Narrow gauge display at Morrow Point Dam, Cimarron Colo, 1975

#3 and #4    Rio Grande westbound freight leaving the Royal Gorge area near Canon City, Colo.

Wabash, Frisco & Pacific RR scale live steam at Glencoe, Mo

Photo at left is of WF&P 4-4-2 #300 built by V.A.Schmidt of Alton, IL; seen with engineer James Strain and brakeman Roy Nelson.

Most photos show work being done on the WF&P in 1979, with the last 2 showing flooding in the area by the Meramac River that same year.

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