Charlie,
Did EMD ever have it's own power plant and get coal
by rail? I have a lot of coal going to McCook in 1959
and I can't figure out who was getting it.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Vlk
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 19 September, 2007 10:19
Subject: [CBQ] 1976 American Freedom Train on the CB&Q
On the return leg eastbound the GS4 with the freedom train ran into
Chicago on the racetrack.
I was commuting from Belmont at the time and decided to take a later train
than normal to catch
the train.
Like all steam trains I've waited trackside for, it was running about an
hour or more later than it
was supposed to.... (at least I wasn't in a cold drizzle on top of a
signal bridge at Congress Park
worrying about a cop spotting me from the Ogden Avenue bridge before the
4960 finally came through!!!).
I managed to get a good shot of the BN bi-centennial 1776 unit which was
running light as a pilot to
the train... but aside from a few too-far-away shots didn't get a good
image of the GS4. I was
using a Olympus OM-1 and in my excitement managed to get a double exposure
at the critical
shot.
I remember getting an impression that the GS4 was one well-crafted
locomotive as it went by...
something that I've heard people say of Lima products in general.
Charlie Vlk
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