Chicago & North Western Railroad

Locomotives: EMD SD38-2

C&NW 6657 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotive) pushing a string of cars onto the Proviso Yard hump. (built January 1975, builder number 75618-08, scheduled to be renumbered to UP 2813, photographed 26 September 1998)

C&NW 6657 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotive) pushing a string of cars south in the Proviso North Yard. (built January 1975, builder number 75618-08, scheduled to be renumbered to UP 2813, photographed 31 October 1998)

C&NW 6657 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotive) pushing a string of cars south in the Proviso North Yard. (built January 1975, builder number 75618-08, scheduled to be renumbered to UP 2813, photographed 31 October 1998)

C&NW 6657 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotive) pushing a string of cars south in the Proviso North Yard. (built January 1975, builder number 75618-08, scheduled to be renumbered to UP 2813, photographed 31 October 1998)

C&NW 6657 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotive) pushing a string of cars onto the Proviso Yard hump. (built January 1975, builder number 75618-08, scheduled to be renumbered to UP 2813, photographed 26 September 1998)

C&NW 6659 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotive) running light in the Proviso North Yard. (built January 1975, builder number 75618-10, scheduled to be renumbered to UP 2815, photographed 31 October 1998)

UP 2814 & C&NW 6657 (EMD SD38-2 diesel-electric locomotives) working the Proviso hump yard. CNW 6657 pushes a string of cars onto the hump, while UP 2814 (formerly C&NW 2658, one number higher) passes running light. Thanks to the engineer of C&NW 6657 for bringing this to my attention. (photographed 26 September 1998)

I took these photographs during the Fall of 1998 using a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera. Adobe Photoshop was used for electronic dark room processing. I've written a custom perl 5 script which constructs these pages from a terse text description file, using a template file.

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