Greetings all:
I posted a few 1960s photos of Oregon, Illinois, to a new folder "Oregon, IL ~
Bill Diven Photos & Archive." I'll add to this as time allows.
Be forewarned that so far these are mostly Kodak Brownie and Instamatic images
from late grade school through high school drawn from Kodacolor negatives and
the occasional Kodachrome. Only the 1968 shots are 35mm and those from a
beat-up Minolta with a failing shutter.
A couple of questions:
According to my meager notes from 1967 the westbound coming off the Rock River
bridge led by the GP30 is Train 88 (somewhere else I wrote it down as Train
82). This train had two waycars and reached Oregon fairly early that morning,
before 9 a.m. as I recall. Anyone have any thoughts on 88 being a valid number?
There also is a 1965 image from East St. Louis, IL, showing a tower in the
foreground and two Q Geeps veering away presumably to a crossing over the
Mississippi. Can anyone tell me more about the location, whose tower that is
and which tracks went where? My Internet searches have not been helpful, and
Google Earth suggests this area now is all covered by freeway.
Relative to an earlier discussion on this list: In one of the images you can
see the corner of the Oregon freight house with fresh woodwork from the too-far
shove. I have a close-up of the building and will post that when I find it.
And there's one shot from Mount Morris of the Oregon switch crew working the
Kable Bros. printing plant. The roll-up door is open with cars inside the
building. (Somewhere about that time the crew damaged the door leading to an
investigation the outcome of which I know not. Seems like they didn't roll it
up far enough, but don't quote me on that.)
The only recent photos are from a few years ago on the Verde Canyon Railroad at
Clarkdale, AZ. I don't have my notes handy but recall the power car on the VCR
excursion train being one of the ex-GI kitchen cars from the Q's fleet by way
of the Colorado & Wyoming. Those cars a clearly visible in the Mount Morris
photo and were common in Oregon (although not as common as the covered hoppers
from the Q, NKP, etc. used in sand service by National Silica).
All for now...
Bill Diven
Placitas, NM
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