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CNWs Finest

CNW 8607 and 8575 lead a EB Coal load thru Union Grove IL on the Geneva Sub towards Proviso. July 12 1994. Photo by Randy Williams

Dining car of The Forty-Niner, 1937.  It was an all-Pullman passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago and North Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. The train traveled between Chicago and the West Coast.

ART UPDATES! 1/10 4-14-24

Been putting these off for a while and been a bit hesitant to draw recently but here goes!

I really feel like these first 3 are super good though!!!

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- Old art I finally finished / second experimental shading test + art THAT LOOKS SO DAMN GOOD / Salmon Run art I made for a friend of us playing that he’s gonna animate in SFM

- Zestial!

- You know the first animation on my YouTube Channel? Well…. I FINALLY FINISHED IT LOOOOK! :D

https://youtu.be/NPbqbtTHd6Q?si=06r0CjiSxy-pND4o https://youtu.be/NPbqbtTHd6Q?si=06r0CjiSxy-pND4o https://youtu.be/NPbqbtTHd6Q?si=06r0CjiSxy-pND4o

No. 168 "Shoreland 400" Green Bay, WI

No. 168, scheduled Sunday and holidays only, has just arrived from Menomonee, MI. GP7 1597 will be replaced by an E7 for the trip to Chicago. Photo by Mike Schafer, circa 1969.

MKT - Kansas City, KS by d.w.davidson Via Flickr: A run through C&NW freight from Des Moines, behind SD50 No. 7001, has arrived at Katy's Glen Park Yard, in October 1986.

"We're at the former junction at Noble Street tower with a C&NW business train heading into the sunset with classic semaphores."

Chicago

September 20, 1989

Photo by Mark Llanuza

Justo by quiet-silence

Before Mid-Century Design—First Generation Diesel Locomotives

These images were taken northwest of Milwaukee—at the Butler Yard diesel house, in Butler, Wisconsin.

Number 1684 is an Alco RSD5, built in 1954, while number 1589 is an EMD GP7 built in 1952. I’m surmising that both locomotive companies designed these, or pre-cursors thereto, back in the latter 1940s. The sharper edges of EMD’s GP30 would come along in 1961, while Alco’s Century line would be introduced in 1963.

I won’t lie: I think the asymmetrical trucks of the Alco are awesome.

Two images by Richard Koenig; taken August 28th 1977.

"John Gruber snapped this timeless pose of best friends gazing at Chicago & North Western 4-6-0 no. 1385, somewhere in Wisconsin on April 10, 1982 (Gruber-08-271-006)." shared from Center for Railroad Photography & Art's Facebook page.

Peek-A-Boo Car: Chicago and Northwestern Gondola 132181 Iron Mountain MI 9-6-1982 by Cody White Via Flickr: Here's a shot of CNW 40' Gondola 132181 at iron Mountain MI September 1982. This car was built in August 1945 and was shopped at Clinton IA in October 1980 when it was likely repainted. Judging by the light shing through onto the brake cylinder, I'm guessing this car has some floor panels removed. This car may have been used for pulpwood loading at one time given the floor has been removed and the panel in the side has been removed. There could be a couple reasons the side panel has been removed like shoveling out excess bark, an indication of assigned service or a viewing window for loading. The bark theory is a moot point if the floor has been removed essentially making a self-cleaning floor. This car may be in saw log service where the logs are larger in diameter than pulpwood and the logs are loaded lengthwise rather than crosswise. The pulpwood cars usually have taller end stakes like the car on the extreme right. A portion of a taller end stake can just be made out. It appears someone in the Clinton Car Shop had a sense of humor stenciling "Peek-A-Boo Car" on the side. Iron Mountain, MI September 6, 1982. John F. Campbell Original Slide from my Collection.

Lunar chilling

C&NW GP7R 4118

Chicago & North Western Railway GP7R 4118 climbing up the Saint Charles Air Line at about Canal Street in Chicago, Illinois on March 23, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. BN E9Am 9914 was shuffling around.

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um quinn doesnt know what a video game is shes just. are you winning son. is that mario? sick. if you got her to sit down and play video games though my heart tells me she would like portal.

and she would do numbers on twitch. they tell her to play difficult games and shout go white girl go

kaj is a story driven maniac. i havent played persona but i think she'd like it. same with mass effect. wouldnt ever touch fire emblem on her own but oh bestie you would love dimitri...

or like planet of lana/inside/limbo those sorts of puzzle platformers.

i ended up making an upscaled version of lumina's official chibi to go along with the one i did for gustafa's, with both her color palette from the og chibi + colors picked from her other official artwork!

CNW F-units at Palatine, IL Dec 1983

The CNW Christmas special that ran both Saturday & Sunday from Janesville, WI to Chicago, IL. Golden Arrow Corporation along with the CNW ran a Christmas train for holiday shopping in the city. It's seen passing through Palatine, IL. Private cars are on the end with a dome car.