DPD Productions
Makers of the...
"TrainTenna"
RR Band Antennas
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Photos by Sam Carlson |
| A nice selection of photos
taken by Sam in various locations. Caption info is by Sam. |
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| Subject: #656, 921,
659, 302 & 702 on Westbound Taconite Train |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: 3/?/1974 |
Notes: This empty 250 car
taconite train has just come west. Here you see
the train pulling forward in order to double the
train into the yard at Waukegan.
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| Subject: #916, 920
& 912 and Helpers #702 & 700 on Loaded Taconite
Train |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: 3/?/1974 |
Notes: This is at the South
end of the yard. They had backed the train all
the way to Greenwood Avenue to get a running start
RR eastbound out of Waukegan. |
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| Subject: #656, 921
& 659 at the Old Waukegan Roundhouse |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: 3/?/1974 |
Notes: Looking east from Belvidere
Rd./Market St. overpass, with Lake Michigan in
the background, power for a taconite train sits
in Waukegan. Doomed busses at Diamond Scrap Yard
are in foreground. |
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| Subject: Baldwin
VO-1000 #478 Leads 130 Empty Ore Cars |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: 3/?/1974 |
Notes: Pulling north from
Waukegan Yard to C&NW's Waukegan Yard, a distance
of about a mile and a half. C&NW will take
the cars to the Twin Ports, then DM&IR will
forward them from the Twin Ports to the Iron Range
for loading. |
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| Subject: Baldwin
DT-6-6-2000 #906 Sits in the Dark |
| Location: 1973/74 |
| Date: Waukegan, IL |
Notes: Car Knocker Bill McGovern
turned the various lights and number boards on
and off for the shot. |
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| Subject: SD38 #653
and SD38-2 #668 Sit on a Cold Night |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: ?/?/1990 |
Notes: The "J ball"
herald had begun to show up on EJ&E locomotives,
but these had yet to sport them. |
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| Subject: SW1200 #305
Sits on a Cold Night |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: ?/?/1990 |
Notes: Still in the older
style lettering. |
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| Subject: Builder
Plates on Baldwin DT-6-6-2000 #921 |
| Location: Waukegan, IL |
| Date: 3/?/1974 |
Notes: Plate lists unit as
#73729 and build date of July, 1948. Lower EMD
plate is dated April, 1957, which is when it was
re-powered and renumbered. |
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