Nostalgia & History > CB&Q (BN) GP7 in 1975

When I was a little kid in Lincoln Nebraska, I liked trains and the Burlington was my favorite railroad. Then we moved to Southern California in '69 and the Q was far away. Burlington Northern happened next. By the time I started taking train pictures in 1974 there was lots of Q rolling stock still around but not that many red Chinese-red engines left. And I was only in CB&Q country a couple weeks every summer while on family vacations visiting relatives.

So I was sure happy to get a picture of GP7 1597 at Pacific Junction in the summer of 1975. Now, did I get a picture of the turntable and the roundhouse(?) that looked like it was falling down? No. But for all its faults as a photograph and my faults as a young railway documentarian, I still like this picture a lot. Nice memory. (Note on *not* trespassing: I couple yardmen looking-on gave me the OK but no climbing on equipment!)

John



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/18 05:02 by Korigaoka1811.

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I always appreciate Q photos.