Nostalgia & History > Bensenville & Rondout, Illinois, in August ‘72

Bensenville, Illinois, 8/4/72
1. CMSTP&P GP9 #201, built 6//54 as #2427, later renumbered #801, + 2 calves shoved cars over the hump.
2. Rail Detector #800 and GP40 #2012, built 10//66 as #174, later SOO #4612, rebuilt to MARC GP40WH-2 #61, to MPEX/MBTA #61, were tied down near the shop.
3. GP40 #2030, built 1//67 as #157, renumbered #2030, to SOO #2030, to NHLX #865, leased to UP #865 2/11/89, retired by UP 7/23/98, to HLCX, rebuilt to FEC GP40-3 #450 1//99, got sand.

Gerry

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Bensenville, Illinois, 8/4/72
4. FP45 #5, built 12//68, and TR4B #690B, built 9//50 as #2001B, were in the shop.
Glenview, Illinois, 8/10/72
5. A w/b Amtrak train was led by CMSTP&P E9A #30A, built 2//56 as #200A, later AMTK #405.  This may have been a St. Louis – Chicago – Milwaukee train.  It had two dome cars, but I think it’s too short to have been the North Coast Hiawatha or the Empire Builder.

Gerry

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Rondout, Illinois, 8/10/72
6 & 7. An e/b (southwest by compass) EJ&E train led by DT66-2000Rs #912, built 5//48 as #112, sold 3//75, + #909, built 4//48 as #109, both built by Baldwin as DT66-2000s and rebuilt with EMD engines, crossed the CMSTP&P with
8. caboose #522.
 
References:
That site that archives railroad pictures
https://www.thedieselshop.us/
https://utahrails.net/index.php
 
Gerry



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/25 05:21 by GPutz.

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Excellent! Really like the photos inside the diesel house.

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'Really liked the EJ&E train led by DT66-2000Rs.  Thanks!

Greg Stadter
Phoenix, AZ

Thanks for posting.  #1 shows a not a-typical Milwaukee "herd".  The MILW separated all their cow-calf units, put couplers on the calves and used them with about anything.  I have a shot, taken at St. Paul Yard, of a Geep, an F B and a calf, which I thought at the time was hump power.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

Always found the EMD switcher hoods on the J's rebuilt centercabs to be an interesting kitbashing job.  Lots of sheet metal work to get the shorter, wider EMD hood to match up to where the longer, taller, narrower Baldwin hoods used to be

- Norm.
 

Yes, you would have thought with the taller Baldwin hood that they could have not altered things. But I guess they had to add an EMD touch.
Victor Baird

NCA1022 Wrote:
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> Always found the EMD switcher hoods on the J's
> rebuilt centercabs to be an interesting kitbashing
> job.  Lots of sheet metal work to get the
> shorter, wider EMD hood to match up to where the
> longer, taller, narrower Baldwin hoods used to be
>
> - Norm.
>  



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/25 07:11 by wabash2800.

Thanks for sharing, I photographed the EJ&E 906 and 921 plus caboosse No. 518 at the same location in the early 1970s. My grudgy super 8 movies of Rondout are on the Tube.

Rondout ILL EJ&E and MILW

VIctor Baird



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/25 08:50 by wabash2800.

Great set - My favorite is photo six with the two EJ&E re-engined Baldwin centercabs.
Bob