Nostalgia & History > C&O 2100 at 1/30th!

While in the Chicago area on an August '72 vacation, and while visiting Pullman Jct, on the south side of the "city", during a tornado watch, it got so dark at around NOON that a setting of 1/30th of a second was required to get this shot of an eastbound C&O train headed for Michigan.
JB



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/12 13:32 by 3rdswitch.

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Excellent!! I had never seen a C&O C630...didn't even know they owned any w/ hi-ad trucks. Were these units restricted to certain routes? I never saw any of them on the C&O of Indiana near where I grew up.

PC7461

I don't know about any restrictions, BUT, on this trip we saw most of them in and out of Chi town. I "THINK" they only had 4?
JB

All of C&O C630s were sold to Cliff's Robe River Iron Associates in Northwest Australia. 2 of them lasted into the early 90s before being rebuilt as GE C40-8M units. To see a photo of one in service go to my webpage http://www.bensonrailphotos.com and click on the Australian Flag. Go to page 3 and find RRIA 9420. It is mistakenly labelled as a M636 (I will have my web guy fix it).

John Benson

Did you get any shots on the NKP line at Pullman Jct.?

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> I don't know about any restrictions, BUT, on this
> trip we saw most of them in and out of Chi town. I
> "THINK" they only had 4?
> JB


Yes--there were only 4. Alco construction numbers were 3486-01 thru 3486-04. The CRRIA numbers were 9417 thru 9420. The 9417 was involved in a head on accident in February 1979 and was scrapped. The other 3 are still operating but were extensively rebuilt by G.E. as Dash 8s in the early 1990s.

John Benson

<http://www.bensonrailphotos.com

NKP was already part of N&W and we did get a few shots of N&W coming through this excellent of all Chicago Junctions.
JB

PC7461 Wrote:
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> Excellent!! I had never seen a C&O C630...didn't
> even know they owned any w/ hi-ad trucks. Were
> these units restricted to certain routes? I never
> saw any of them on the C&O of Indiana near where I
> grew up.
>
> PC7461


They were fairly common on the Nothern Region (PM). But there were only four of them.