Next best thing since sliced bread!
Chillicothe Missouri may not be on your top ten lists of places to visit, but learning that a new railroad called the Northern Missouri RR was using a former L&N GP7 was good enough for me! After days of shooting trains in nearby Kansas City, I found the Geep, now owned by PNC (I thought why didn't they place their logo in the blanked out Family Lines rectangle?) parked at the former Wabash brick depot. The railroad didn't last too long, being sold in January, 1986 to the Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority. The Geep was used by them and then subsequent owner Wabash & Grand River Rwy. from 1990 to 1993, but returned to the CBRMA. Largely abandoned now, the remaining portion of the line is served from a connection to the CP that passes over the line in town, and the railroad uses former C&NW chop nose GP7 4485 with torpedo tubes!
I also found out that Chillicothe's claim to fame is that they invented sliced bread here! Oddly enough, I could not find any sign of a bakery in operation!
3/17/1985
Photo by John Eagan
Next best thing since sliced bread!
Chillicothe Missouri may not be on your top ten lists of places to visit, but learning that a new railroad called the Northern Missouri RR was using a former L&N GP7 was good enough for me! After days of shooting trains in nearby Kansas City, I found the Geep, now owned by PNC (I thought why didn't they place their logo in the blanked out Family Lines rectangle?) parked at the former Wabash brick depot. The railroad didn't last too long, being sold in January, 1986 to the Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority. The Geep was used by them and then subsequent owner Wabash & Grand River Rwy. from 1990 to 1993, but returned to the CBRMA. Largely abandoned now, the remaining portion of the line is served from a connection to the CP that passes over the line in town, and the railroad uses former C&NW chop nose GP7 4485 with torpedo tubes!
I also found out that Chillicothe's claim to fame is that they invented sliced bread here! Oddly enough, I could not find any sign of a bakery in operation!
3/17/1985
Photo by John Eagan