Overview Looking South  Contributor's Pick!       
The diamonds are with the EJ&E. Interchange cars can be seen above the last coach. My notes read "The Varsity?". Can anyone confirm? Note the shaddows indicate mid-afternoon. See the other shots of this train at http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=731965 and http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=731966
Date: 4/15/1962 Location: Rondout, IL   Map Show Rondout on a rail map Views: 2072 Collection Of:   Marty Bernard
Locomotives: MILW 200(GP9)   Rolling Stock: MILW Rondout (Other/Not Listed) Author:  Marty Bernard
Overview Looking South
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Name Type Comments Date
Eric Berg General Awesome picture!!! 3/29/2010 10:18:51 PM
Chris Balducci General Where would the North Shore's line be? 7/22/2010 10:47:58 PM
Marty Bernard General I'm on the embankment that was the North Shore overpass. 7/22/2010 11:18:07 PM
Sam Carlson General Definitely a commuter train. MILW 200 was a commuter engine. The cars are commuter train cars, which have been rebuilt from a variety of former name train cars. Two car trains were the norm for off hour commuter trains. The varsity usually had E units or sometimes Erie Builts for power, and the cars were almost always rib side streamline cars. This shot was probably taken between 1960 and 1962, which would mean that at this late date, the Varsity's cars would have been painted yellow. Also, those are not interchange cars above the last coach. They are shorts, to be picked up by an eastward freight. The interchange cars off the EJ&E and the North Shore would be in the small yard behind the tower. You can see the interchange track between the tower and the tree to the left of the picture. The interchange track beyond the depot was for MILW trains to set out cars for the EJ&E, whose yard is out of the picture to the left. Also, behind the depot on the other side of the EJ&E is a pump hous 2/3/2012 1:14:38 AM
Sam Carlson General Behind the depot on the other side of the EJ&E is a pump house. Note the "gallows" which was used to hoist the pump machinery from the well when it needed servicing. The well was the deepest in the county for a very long time. Beyond the pump house, the building with the squarish vertical extension was a bunk house. The operator looks like Fred Peachey (sp?) I've lived in the area since 1960; hence my knowledge of the area. 2/3/2012 1:22:38 AM

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