^^^^^^ I don't know. Last I saw it, it was still cold sitting in the yard at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.
1522's organization is out of $$ and there is no plan to get her running again. Really unfortunate. She was a real crowd pleaser, allegedly the loudest in stack talk among the preserved locomotives.
Here is an old one that I shot on cheep color print film back before digital cameras. Could not afford Kodachrome all the time.
Same here - paint schemes were more interesting and varied. And no graffiti makes it easier to model. A time before vandalism was considered art.hboy: I second that.
Not steam but interesting. At one time real common in Galesburg, now they have been replaced with SD40-2's. Never thought I would grow nostalgic over Cascade Green. BN 6177, former CB&Q #430. Taken in Galesburg, June 1998.
Nice shot Jim. When I was a kid in Chicago, I recall that BN ran some neat TV ads to promote the new railroad. Then when I went away to school, a professor ran BN's 1973 film Portrait of A Railroad which I though was so cool. Yep, I miss Cascade Green too. One of the few BN units I have on film is this poor scan of a unit at the former Frisco yard in East Thomas (Birmingham), AL taken in August 1990.
I used to see them often 8 or 9 years ago but they are quite rare now. This one is from February 2007.
I did find some old b&w photos of a BN boxcar and NP boxcar, taken between '73 and '75 before I shot color. Alas, that wonderful pre-graffiti era is seen again.
Back when we had better parents, and children did not have the 'right' to freely commit criminal acts.
Yes, but this spot isn't too bad to access, just a steep uphill walk for maybe 1/2 mile. The west end of the Loops is more remote, but is somewhat close to long-abandoned, grown-in, impassible-by-car US-70 and the old highway provides a hiking avenue to access the railroad. I hope to check it out someday.