Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
Rochelle, IL Railroad Park
| This westbound empty coal train is approaching the BNSF crossing on June 14, 2005. |
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| This exSP 141 was the trailing unit on the empty coal train. |
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| New to the scene is this former MILW caboose north-east of the railroad park. |
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| One of the Rochelle locals on the BNSF was this nice matched pair of GP30s still in the ATSF yellow warbonnet paint scheme. |
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| The other Rochelle BNSF local is seen here switching the Del Monte plant along side the UP mainline west of the diamond. |
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| Here the local is returning to the BNSF. Note the tight radius of the track near the diamond. |
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| It now turns into a race between the BNSF and the UP. |
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| This westbound vehicle train sports 4 SD70s on the point and 2 trailing NS units. |
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| Action the next day (6/15/05) starts early with this westbound. Before 7am I had shot two UPs but missed 2 BNSFs. |
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| This westbound had a very interesting 3rd unit, check the next two images. |
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| The previous day I had shot two more of these "undecorated" SD70ACes on a westbound freight. |
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| The previous day I had shot two more of these "undecorated" SD70ACes on a westbound freight. |
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| The diamond gets such a pounding from continual traffic that welders have to build up the points between trains. Here an eastbound pig train approaches the diamonds with the welder standing near his truck. |
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| With the crossing blocked by the pig train, the local charges across westbound. |
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| Here a young rail fan watches as UP 4496 returns west from delivering a string of refrigerator cars to the Rochelle Railroad interchange on the east side of town. |
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| This westbound stack trains is powered by the latest offerings from EMD and GE. The UP 8334 SD70ACe leads two sister SD70ACes and a GE C45... |
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