The ballast looks to be steel mill slag. Did GN use this material ?
Could this scene be a shot of the GN/Q power agreement that we've discussed in the past on this site and Karl R. Shared his first hand experience of derailing at River St in Aurora,IL when the front of a GN F unit, that was leading came off.
By the way, I believe the BN was blessed with GN/NP Fs. One experience I had was leaving the pit at Cicero one night for departure yard with an F as the lead unit of 4 old first generation power. By the time we made it from the roundhouse to Clyde yard office in "D" yard the F was now the only working unit and then it died at the yard office. We literally drifted back to the roundhouse thanks to the downhill grade. Yes, it's true,you can't make something this crazy up.
FWIW, the slide scene reminds me of White Pines state park just west of Oregon,IL and if my guess/hunch is right the train is eastbound.
Leo Phillipp
There is a very interesting slide for sale on eBay right now of a freight train in St Paul led by a GN A-B-A F-unit set followed by a Q U28B and two Q GP40's. https://ebay.us/Z6LvlZDoes anyone recognize the location? I am trying to figure out whether this train is headed east to Savanna and Chicago or west on the GN. My guess is that at this late date this may be a set of F's being traded in to EMD. If it is, however, it is very interesting to see them on the point! The fact that CB&Q GP40 621 is in the consist confirms that this was indeed shot in 1968 (or later) since the 600-series GP40's were built in February 1968. To back up the theory of these F-units heading to La Grange as trade-ins, there is a photo in the GN Color Pictorial Volume 2 on page 120 of a consist at the Q locomotive facility in Minneapolis, MN of GN 436D F3A, Q 633 GP40, NYC 2569 U25B, Q 104 U25B, and Q 110 U28B. The caption on the photo says that GN 463D was headed for EMD La Grange on trade-in. I "assumed" that it would be trailing and dead-in-consist, but if GN was trading in a number of F-units in 1968 then this is a very cool shot showing that these units were running when sent to EMD and in fact did even lead at least one Q train in the late 1960's! On the flip side, if this is headed to La Grange I now not only have an excuse to run a GN F-unit A-B-A set, but the cost associated with putting one together!!! -- Tom Mack Cincinnati, OH
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