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[TrucTrain55]

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[TLOC]

Uncredited employee picture from the pulp yard, but I think it was Willard during an illegal smoke break

 

[CambriaArea51]

Former AGP grain car. Now JTSX.

 

[TLOC]

Midwest Monday

 

[MikeGTW]

Started out in Kentucky

 

[logandsawman]

Some truss rod box cars, wood sided Caboose, crossing the St. Croix river en route to Grantsburg, WI

Dave LASM

 

[santafewillie]

A day late but here it is.

I had to search the layout for this car.

 

[MikeGTW]

small rr about 300 miles of track

 

[gjslsffan]

QOCX 188,189, prototypes leased to Quacker Oats Co. in Cedar Rapids IA. Atlas cars I painted and decaled, lightly weathered.

 

[MikeGTW]

couple here from midwest

 

[MikeGTW]

Indiana Harbor Belt

 

[MikeGTW]

One more Monon RR this is a head end car I got these in April of 1991 for $10 ea plus total of $1.75 shipping I got car #251 and #635
The Monon Society only made less then 200 of each It's a Mckean model

 

[gjslsffan]

Interesting story about these cars. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks, I appreciate your comments. I wonder how many of those little bags of microwave oatmeal fits in one of those cars.

 

[MikeGTW]

Looking thru some unbuilt kits there's a bunch of them Anyway found this one with horizontal ribbing had to look it up
Looks like Milwaukee was the only ones they were built in house
And it's midwest

 

[skyliner]

Hey, I can contribute to this thread. I previously lived within view of the former IC mainline in central Illinois for a number of years. I'll start out as cliché as possible.

FFG&C (Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal) 1828, a rare GP28, pulls a string of hoppers out of the elevator track in the tiny hamlet of Dewey, IL.

Here's a closeup. This locomotive was built in 1964 for the Illinois Central, and is one of only 16 of that type to be operated by a US railroad.

An overview of the grain elevator complex in Dewey, pictures taken in 2007. I used to pass by here about once a month on my drive to Chicago for work; I had a back-roads route from Champaign until hooking up with I-55 in Gardner. Over 3.5 years of doing that drive, I only saw this loco in operation once.

 

[santafewillie]

A couple of Frisco cars, one weathered, one not yet weathered.

Need to keep this thread alive.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

While on the way back from wild west i was on US30 along Union Pacific mainline. This is part of a small foto session in Sidney, Nebraska:

Classic nowdays SD40-2 next to a gondola and a DASH9 nearby in the weeds. After traveling further east with the weather playing tricks, spotted this old style elevator in Lodgepole:

All pictures taken on July 15, 2021.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Seen it in magazines, but traveling through Kansas along old Santa Fe trail it was the first live view for me:

Taken in May last year. What i'm assuming can only be B737s poised to go north west to Seattle for finishing.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

While traveling through Texas last May, cought this three unit lashup in the city of Palestine:

 

[KriegslokBR52]

I guess Twin Cities would fall into midwest category. In Saint Paul i found a shortline with all GE and ALCo power: