Nostalgia & History > CB&Q GP40 630 in 1969

CB&Q GP40 630 with some foreign help in Lisle, IL on August 27, 1969.  630 became  BN 3030.


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard

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getting into it

Interesting. Wonder why it is on the "wrong rack"?

HotWater Wrote:
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> Interesting. Wonder why it is on the "wrong rack"?

All three tracks are bi-directional CTC.  Nothing was comming east.

A fine Q action shot. Thanks for posting. 

An unusually hazy day for August (and not all because of the engine exhaust/heat). Looks like the Q still had stick rail at the time. The last time I was looking at the current welded rail through that area I believe I noticed it was stamped with 1971 so I assume the BN placed the welded rail through there soon after that.

Thanks for sharing the nice pool power that could be found there at the time. I'm sure that train was making the most of the fast track speed with the relatively new power.

Is that Yender Road in the background, and are these taken from Yackley Road's overpass?

ctjacks Wrote:
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> Is that Yender Road in the background,

No, as the Yenda Road bridge was not that well constructed, i.e. NOT concrete. The Yenda Road bridge is long gone, and was never replaced.

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> these taken from Yackley Road's overpass?

EL power was fairly commons far West as Kansas City. I remember many times westbound thru my hometown of Palmyra MO on the Brookfield Sub.with EL power. I remember many times the exhaust from those 20 cylinder EMD’s blasting branches out of our walnut trees as they pounded up the hill there.

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ctjacks Wrote:
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> Is that Yender Road in the background, and are
> these taken from Yackley Road's overpass?


My memory is I took these from the Yender Road Bridge.  Note the bridge is over a curve in the tracks.  Google can't find Yender Road in Lisle.  I knew the bridge was gone, but the Road too? 

Marty

Q glory! What better help than some big EL SD's. Still on the roster as BNSF 3007.



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Just saw the 3007 working the east end RCO job at Yardley in Spokane, WA this week. Far out that its heritage goes that far back.

Love the detail of the fireman looking back to inspect the train on the inside of the curve!

GN599 Wrote:
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> Q glory! What better help than some big EL SD's.
> Still on the roster as BNSF 3007.

There are stub ends of Yender Road, but the bridge is long gone, and Yender isn't a through route.

Was there a bridge at Beau Bein Boulevard?

Is this the curve known as Calendar Curve to CB&Q fans?

Chris Jacks



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