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| Title: |
Waitin for a signal. |
| Description: |
We crossed over to trk.2 after the guy with the NP eng. went by. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1970 Upload Date: 12/7/2009 8:01:12 PM |
| Location: |
Eola, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 530(SD45) |
| Views: |
1185 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
A "Bird" headin east. |
| Description: |
C&NW called 'em Falcon's, crews called 'em Birds. Either way they "flew". 45's always looked strange w/o dynamics |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1972 Upload Date: 12/26/2009 9:37:49 AM |
| Location: |
Rochelle, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 962(SD45) |
| Views: |
924 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Almost gotter made |
| Description: |
Just a few hundred feet short of achieving success the three units have a mere 1200 tons trailing them. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1972 Upload Date: 10/13/2010 12:31:34 PM |
| Location: |
Saluda, NC |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOU 3195(SD40) SOU 3152(SD45) SOU 3175(SD40) |
| Views: |
1429 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
A race |
| Description: |
The pass. train had the 844 on the head end. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1971 Upload Date: 1/28/2010 9:50:23 PM |
| Location: |
Laramie, WY |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 3603(SD45) |
| Views: |
779 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Ready ta leave |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/15/1972 Upload Date: 1/8/2010 8:31:08 PM |
| Location: |
Savanna, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP 3605(SD45) |
| Views: |
2583 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Flowers and Semaphores. |
| Description: |
Waitin' in the weeds. |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1969 Upload Date: 1/27/2012 10:01:38 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
EL 3606(SD45) |
| Views: |
770 Comments: 8 |
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| Title: |
Commin off the pit |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/15/1972 Upload Date: 1/8/2010 8:30:33 PM |
| Location: |
Savanna, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP 3617(SD45) |
| Views: |
2661 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Time ta Kill. |
| Description: |
Stopped west of Aurora, IL. for the suburban trains to give us room ta go through town. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1972 Upload Date: 11/24/2012 12:39:09 PM |
| Location: |
Sugar Grove, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Scenic,InCab |
| Locomotives: |
NP 3623(SD45) |
| Views: |
1208 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Passin a passenger train |
| Description: |
My #97 is runnin' around a suburban train east of Eola yd. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1979 Upload Date: 10/20/2010 12:17:14 PM |
| Location: |
Eola, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Winter,InCab,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 9911(E9AM) BN 6464(SD45) |
| Views: |
620 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Brand New |
| Description: |
First trip. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1971 Upload Date: 8/7/2016 8:15:14 AM |
| Location: |
Savanna, IL |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6502(SD45) |
| Views: |
356 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
On the afternoon of July 4, 1981 a series of events coalesced to produce a deadly and dramatic wreck that has few equals. As I left Trinidad, CO. on an Amarillo coal load we began to notice the sky above Raton Mesa darkening to a degree not often seen. Conversation was that, when this storm breaks, all hell's gonna break loose with it. We got a few raindrops on the windshield, nothing more. At Trinchere, CO. a train was in the siding waiting for us. We continued on to Texline, TX. and tied up, never knowing what had occured behind us. In the morning, after having been in town for over 14 hr. with no sign of a westbound train for us I inquired about the reason(s) we had not been called. I found out, soon enough. The storm we had seen forming did indeed break loose. The deluge it produced was of epic proportions. All the ditches, arroyos and gullies, plugged with years of accumulated brush and debris, were cleared out by the enormous amount of water produced by the storm. All this material had only one place to go - - Frijole Creek. A 90 ft. plate girder bridge spanned the creek at MP 227.78, a point nearing the bottom of a small hill with a cut and a left hand curve preceeding it. It was, at that time, well past daylight so, in "dark territory", no warning was available to the crew to announce the problem ahead of them. Extra 6529 east, a unit rail train of D&RGW cars headed for Amarillo, passed through the cut, rounded the left hand curve and plunged into what was estimated to be a 20 to 40 ft. wall of water. The bridge had been torn from the concrete abutments so 6529, obeying the laws of physics, arced forward and downward from the west abutment. The SD45 struck the east abutment about 15 ft. below its top surface with the second unit and the train adding their energy to the event. The results can be clearly seen in this series of pics that show the engines resting on the creek bed, partially buried in debris and surrounded by rail cars and bent, twisted rail. The head end crew perished in the incident and traffic was delayed for nearly 4 days as a result. The RR was severly criticized for running a train during such incredibly bad weather without the benefit of a track patrol preceding it. Settlements were forthcoming but the details were never revealed. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:54:04 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) BN 6378(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
2671 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:48:22 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) |
| Views: |
1229 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
All that remains of a once fine locomotive. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:50:26 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) |
| Views: |
1185 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
The SD45 was obvious scrap, as the pic reveals, but the SD40 was thought to be salvageable. Further inspection of the eng. revealed the cost of rebuilding to be in excess of its value. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:48:59 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) |
| Views: |
1284 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Frijole Creek |
| Description: |
The people are standing on the temporary fill placed by the RR to allow traffic to run until a new bridge could be installed. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:49:47 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Wreck |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) |
| Views: |
1436 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
BN 6529 |
| Description: |
Twisted rail and rail cars can be seen in the arroyo at a point downstream of the bridge location. 25 years later, parts can still be uncovered in the stream bed. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 7:49:22 AM |
| Location: |
Trinidad, CO |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
BN 6529(SD45) |
| Views: |
1476 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Layin' Over. |
| Description: |
Layin over. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/2017 Upload Date: 12/31/2017 1:33:34 PM |
| Location: |
Hankinson, ND |
| Author: |
Karl Rethwisch |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
DMVW 7510(SD45) |
| Views: |
347 Comments: 0 |
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