Nostalgia & History > BB: tracking those C&NW Alcos ....not sure where

Bruce loved to head up to Huron, SD and range out along the C&NW to shoot the abundant Alcos that worked that area .... here's one of his many shots, but no info about it. Have any location help? Units are RSD5's  #1684 & 1685. I have previously posted a BB shot of this same train but in a different location as identified by TO members.

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Gotta be eastern South Dakota -- but the track and row look pretty good ??

Laughin, make that west of Huron between there and Blunt

theshoe Wrote:
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> Laughin, make that west of Huron between there and
> Blunt

The Kodak # on the shot I posted is 18, I found another one of the same train, it one was Kodak numbered 15 ... and was labeled 'leaving Pierre, SD Milepost 479' .... maybe that helps. Does seem to put in the general area that you mentioned. If I find any others in that sequence I'll post info ...

valmont Wrote:
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> theshoe Wrote:
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> > Laughin, make that west of Huron between there
> and
> > Blunt
>
> The Kodak # on the shot I posted is 18, I found
> another one of the same train, it one was Kodak
> numbered 15 ... and was labeled 'leaving Pierre,
> SD Milepost 479' .... maybe that helps. Does seem
> to put in the general area that you mentioned. If
> I find any others in that sequence I'll post info
> ...
Okay, given this information, I'm going to say between Blunt and Miller.  This is one of the longest
stretches of tangent track in America and still in use by the RCPE.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

ntharalson Wrote: > ... between Blunt and Miller ... one of the longest stretches of tangent track in America ...

Yup! Over 50 miles! But contrary to popular opinion it's NOT 100% straight. It does bounce up & down a few times. Ok.... considering the condition it was in back in '87, it bounced up & down a gazillion times on a student trip over that stretch. At a mind-numbing TEN MILES PER HOUR...

No wonder I marked up on the Wayfreight job at Pierre that nobody else wanted!

Lance (DM&E condr June '87 ~ Oct '87)

Really outstanding photo. Crisp and great colour. Thanks for sharing.

I love how far west the C&NW got--it seemed to be another RR that wanted to be a transcontinental.  If so, I wonder where it would have gone?

coach Wrote:
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> I love how far west the C&NW got--it seemed to be
> another RR that wanted to be a transcontinental.
>  If so, I wonder where it would have gone?

Lander Wyoming was end of the line. I think I read somewhere they wanted to build into SaltLake City or out to the Pacific in Oregon. But they made an agreement at the time with UP not to continue building.
JC

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santafe199 Wrote:
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> ntharalson Wrote: > ... between Blunt and Miller
> ... one of the longest stretches of tangent track
> in America ...
>
> Yup! Over 50 miles! But contrary to popular
> opinion it's NOT 100% straight. It does bounce up
> & down a few times. Ok.... considering the
> condition it was in back in '87, it bounced up &
> down a gazillion times on a student trip over that
> stretch. At a mind-numbing TEN MILES PER HOUR...
>
> No wonder I marked up on the Wayfreight job at
> Pierre that nobody else wanted!
>
> Lance (DM&E condr June '87 ~ Oct '87)

Okay, so it was tangent longitudially and not vertically!  And don't feel bad, Lance, it was that way in the late 60's when I
lived in Pierre.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA