6235 was my FAVORITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got shoved up Burke, dang near
got shoved DOWN Waterman, drifted into Aurora.
This thing could NOT pull itself.
Many, good reasons why the 24's were so unreliable.
Karl-----------------------------
-- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "ralphrback" <ralphrback@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=216246
> <http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=216246>
> On December 7, 2007 MNTX SD9 6234 emerged from the Wisconsin &
Southern
> Railroad Co.'s Horicon, WI paint shop with a new coat of paint. MNTX
> 6234 was painted in the "classic" Burlington Northern Railroad
> "Cascade" Green paint scheme retaining the BN 6234 locomotive
number.
> The BN "Cascade" green paint scheme was chosen because that is the
> portion of its history which is relevant to Minnesota. The 6234 has
had
> this scheme since 1971 and the BN 6234 locomotive number since
1980. In
> addition, the entire locomotive cab interior was also repainted.
> BN 6234 was retired on January 15, 2003 (as BNSF 6234) by the
Burlington
> Northern & Santa Fe Railway and was donated by BNSF to the Minnesota
> Transportation Museum, Inc. on September 12, 2003. BNSF delivered
the
> 6234 to the Jackson Street Roundhouse in St. Paul on October 16,
2003.
> BN SD9 6234, with FRA reporting mark MNTX 6234, is in service from
early
> May to late October on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway's
regular
> passenger operations between Osceola, WI and Marine, MN, and between
> Osceola, WI and Dresser, WI; and the Fall Leaf Viewing trips between
> Osceola and Marine on the St. Croix. Canadian National Railway
grants
> the OSCV Railway trackage rights on CN's Wisconsin Division Dresser
> Subdivision between Withrow, MN and Dresser, WI.
> Ralph Back
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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