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🥲 it’s beautiful... I miss seeing green

I believe those wig-wags are *LONG* gone!

Crazy how none of it has changed but the power

July 1995, Santa Fe would exist for only 2 months longer

00:14 rest in peace mary and 9912

these guys use to run upwards of 80 miles an hour back in the 80's

Really nice catch!

Thank you for sharing. All these lost moments are preserved by videographers by you and by posting, you let us all enjoy the past. It's like having a rail museum at your fingertips.

looks like this is where bn 9913 was at before gold coast railroad museum

Damn!! That bell at the beginning (sounds like a Mini-Bell) is amazing!!

My father use to work there for the railroad

At this time, the recently acquired SF SD45'S were just showing up during this visit. They csn be found roaming the system still in pristine blue & yellow mixed with WC'S maroon & gold, EX-BN green, & recent new visitor to dairy land CSX future 1990.

It’s very stupid that they replaced the wig wags with crossbucks instead of signals

I liked this C&NW dark yellow scheme best.

I don't know how many they had, but every, single one of those classic beauties should have been saved. There wont be any like them again. I think there are around 50 E units around the country that have been preserved. Don't know the exact number.

Great video! Loved those wig wags. It reminds of my trips to Monticello, IL to visit my grand parents. They lived on a farm outside of town. The road to get there crossed the old IC line that is now the Monticello Railway Museum main line. There was a wig wag at the crossing. Unfortunately, I don’t ever remember a train there. That was back in the 1960’s/ early 1970’s. Another really bad spot just this side of that crossing!

Great video! That M series horn on the GTW train was great! He really “got a roll on ‘em” toward the end! Good shot of all those WC units! Especially the ex-SFe painted SD45’s! That siding needs some major work! Way too much rockin’ and rollin’ going on! Thanks again!

Good video! Turbocharged 645’s all around! And ex-Santa Fe SD45’s to boot! And no low speed idle, either! Great catch!

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Man these things were gorgeous. I wish one could be preserved by PRLX, but I think they've all already been scrapped.

Sounds like a few other dds on YT

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Most or all footage of Chicago Central trains I've seen, the trains have several locomotives. Does anyone know why they used so many locos? I'm guessing maybe they need extra power to pull outa the Mississippi Valley?

Red locomotive to orange locomotive...."what do you identify as"? Orange..."Milwaukee Road". "You"? "SOO". Orange...."who painted you red"? Red...."I don't know. Woke up one morning and I was all red". Orange..."oh, sorry, bro".

And the Milwaukee Road had an east/west branch line near the Sturtevant station. East all the way to downtown Racine with a 2 stall engine house next to the Root River. West out to Burlington and maybe beyond. A variety of switch engines were used on that branch over the years. You never knew what would turn up. Once saw an EMD derailed at the Memorial Drive crossing. Most of the east end is now a bike trail. At one point my bedroom was right next to the tracks at Deane Blvd. Sure miss the Milwaukee Road and CNW. CNW had a double track main all the way through the City of Racine and they also had a 2 stall engine house at the southeast corner of Dekoven Ave and South Memorial Dr. As with Milw. they used a variety of old switchers to do local freight. Late in the game Milwaukee was using a high hood Geep most of the time locally. In the early/middle 70s you would occasionally see an old F unit mixed in with newer power on the CNW main. Those were the days!

Great video!!! The passing trains at end AWESOME! As a retired CNW locomotive guy….I do not miss those winters in Wisconsin! I lived in MtPleasant very near to Sturtevant … correct me if I’m-wrong but I believe they saved and moved the old depot which was another great catch on you video. Now live in Arizona….but was a nice ride down memory lane 👍👍😎

I have been to Rechelle back in 2021 23 this was before the Park was built great footage 👍🚂

When was this 1996 or something? Or was it like early 2000s

I remember seeing that train 🚂 it's cool to see a cabbose

I remember those sprint intermodal trains. I'm correct this is sprint intermodal train number 423 at 8:30pm when I was out in Sturavant with rail fan buddy's. Train screams by at 65 miles and hour.

I used to see those GP7 and 9's sitting in the tower pocket for years.

I work on the CNW for 29 years before the up took over

Not only was the locomotive new, so it appears are most of the cars. I don't think I saw any graffilthy on any of them.

Under the control of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Buenas locomotoras SD40 y SD45 2

Lovely Engines.

Nice video….nice to see the old Yard Office! Hired out at Butler Feb.1974….locomotive department. Retired there in May 2010… had stops in Council Bluffs Iowa and Proviso Shop in Chicago….then back to Butler in 2003 to reopen it for UPRR…… I miss the old CNW….. great times an people….thanks for posting.🇺🇸👍😎

That's vintage banjo signals ✖️☺️

Was at Proviso from 1992 to 2003……saw many changes in that time. In 03 was moved to Milwaukee to reopen the Butler Diesel shop….retired from the UP in 2010…. wouldn’t trade my RR career for anything😎

SD75M #250 was Santa Fe's last new locomotive

I miss the old Santa fe railroad

Thanks for the memories.

SD 42s C&NW always My favorite. Love the sound of the turbos. GP 7s also one of My favor eng. I greatly miss C&NW.

Awesome!!! Used to railfan Conrail and Amtrak a lot in 1993. Miss those days!!!!

The SD50.The locomotive that drove both CSX and Chicago and North Western into the arms of General Electric.

I miss C&NW and GP-7 SD42s bay window Caboose's rolling down the tracks.

Gotta go *F A S T*

This would later be Canadian Pacific. The C&NW would later be integrated into the Union Pacific Railroad system.

The earliest ancestor of the C&NW was the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad.

Yes we all need to realized that the CNW WAS A AWESOME RAILROAD & IT WAS ONE OF A KIND ! IT REMINDED US TO SAY NO TO WELFARE & YES TO WORK !