I WANT TO RIDE A TRAIN
Some of the photo are mine,
but some are not....
The Thunder Rolls by Jake Miille
Via Flickr:
On a cold stormy day in Northern California, Union Pacific 6662 guides a heavy MNPRVX around the Williams Loop, east of Quincy. At over 7,000’ in length, this train easily has the size to loop back over itself. Guarding this iconic piece of railroad engineering are two classic searchlight signals.
UP 6662 — MNPRVX — Williams Loop
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The Thunder Rolls by Jake Miille
Via Flickr:
On a cold stormy day in Northern California, Union Pacific 6662 guides a heavy MNPRVX around the Williams Loop, east of Quincy. At over 7,000’ in length, this train easily has the size to loop back over itself. Guarding this iconic piece of railroad engineering are two classic searchlight signals.
UP 6662 — MNPRVX — Williams Loop
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Caption: “A busy moment in the Loop as a northbound Ravenswood ‘B’ 6000 train approaches Adams/Wabash and an Evanston Express 4000 waits as a southbound Lake/Dan Ryan 2000 goes through Tower 12 at Wabash/Van Buren in June 1971.”
Chicago
Photo by Lou Gerard
(via Traffic on the Loop | A busy moment in the Loop as a northbo… | Flickr)
“Car 773 leads a six-car North Shore Line train on the Lake Street leg of the Loop. A train of CTA ‘Baldy’ 4000’s is on the other track.”
Chicago
(via North Shore 733 Loop SLIHS dupe | Car 773 leads a six car No… | Flickr)
Loaded Blades at Sunset by John Crisanti
It is just after sunset as a southbound loaded windmill train departs Longs Peak, Colorado on December 10, 2014, with BNSF C44-9W No. 695 and Canadian National C40-8M No. 2436. The train originated at the Vestas plant in Windsor, Colorado and is bound for Ferguson, Texas.
Loaded Blades at Sunset by John Crisanti
It is just after sunset as a southbound loaded windmill train departs Longs Peak, Colorado on December 10, 2014, with BNSF C44-9W No. 695 and Canadian National C40-8M No. 2436. The train originated at the Vestas plant in Windsor, Colorado and is bound for Ferguson, Texas.
Caption: “North Shore Line interurban 712 in the Loop at VanBuren-Wabash. The train is turning the corner heading south to the North Shore terminus at Roosevelt Road.”
Chicago
Photographer unknown (collection of John Smatlak)
(via North Shore 712 Loop at VanBuren-Wabash | North Shore Line i… | Flickr)
Caption: “Car 713 leads a five-car North Shore Line train on the Lake Street leg of the Loop.”
(via North Shore 713 Loop Lake | Car 713 leads a 5-car North Shor… | Flickr)
Pocket of Sunshine by John Crisanti
In typical fashion, a northbound BNSF coal empty led by ES44AC No. 5904 enters a pocket of sunshine as the train climbs the final portion of the grade up to the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, Colorado on May 17, 2017.
rr455s by George Hamlin
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Amtrak is less than in month away in early April 1971, as Rock Island train 6-8 from….wait for it… Rock Island, Illinois has just arrived at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago’s Loop.
The station is the proverbial “shadow of its former self”; with the Rock Island now being its only tenant. The Nickel Plate Road’s passenger trains are long gone, and former prime tenant New York Central removed its remaining Chicago passenger operations to the former Pennsylvania Railroad’s facilities in Union Station after the PRR and NYC merged to form the Penn Central in 1968.
So now, at this location, it’s just the Rock’s trains; mostly commuter runs, plus the two remaining “intercity” trains, the other one being to and from Peoria.
Some history, and memories of a more glamorous earlier existence are on view in this picture of train 6-8’s club diner. Now known only by its number, 411, it once carried the name “Golden Bowl”, and held down the coffee shop-tavern car assignment on the crack “Golden State”, operated jointly by the Rock Island and Southern Pacific between Chicago and Los Angeles.
All that is definitely history now. However, unlike virtually all of the other ‘private’ (i.e.operated by individual railroads, as opposed to Amtrak) passenger trains in the U.S. will either cease running, or be absorbed into Amtrak the first of May. The Rock’s relics will roll on for a number of years into the late 1970s, still arriving and departing at LaSalle Street; truly the last of their kind in Chicago.
