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SD40-2 6776 southbound @ Spanish Lake, Mo. (Mar. 1986)*
Kodachrome my collection, Bob Schmidt photographer.
The Burlington, Ontario Canada Branch of the Navy League of Canada was established in October of 1942 and the first cadets joined and paraded in the months of February of 1943. The Sea Cadet Corps was named after Her Majesty’s Ship IRON DUKE, the British Royal Navy Dreadnaught and fleet flagship in the First World War. The name seemed the most appropriate as ‘Iron Duke’ was the nickname for the First Duke of Wellington (of the Battle of Waterloo), and the downtown core of Burlington was once called Wellington Square when the town of Burlington was first established. The initial Warrant was issued to the Burlington Navy League Branch on the 6th of March 1943.
The Burlington Hotel on new street in Birmingham was formerly known as the Midland Hotel, The Burlington Arcade, the front area to the Burlington Hotel, underwent a renovation under the design of Malcolm Payne architects who designed a glass roof to cover the area which was once known as Burlington Passage. The lettering of the Midland Hotel is still visible however on the rear of the building fronting Stephenson Street
Via Rail FP9A 6532 arrives at Burlington West with a Toronto bound passenger train in September 1986.
Burlington Northern GP28M #1501 is seen working Northbound on the Front Range Sub. through Westminster, CO in July of 1994.
This engine was rebuilt by EMD and was originally Northern Pacific GP-9 #303, then Burlington Northern #1741.
The Burlington Arcade is a covered shopping arcade in London that runs behind Bond Street from Piccadilly through to Burlington Gardens. It is one of the precursors of the mid-19th-century European shopping gallery and the modern shopping centre. The Burlington Arcade was built "for the sale of jewellery and fancy articles of fashionable demand, for the gratification of the public".
The arcade was built to the order of Lord George Cavendish, younger brother of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who had inherited the adjacent Burlington House, on what had been the side garden of the house and was reputedly to prevent passers-by throwing oyster shells and other rubbish over the wall of his home. The Arcade opened in 1819. It consisted of a single straight top-lit walkway lined with seventy-two small two storey units.
This image is part of a series I am working on to show the extreme wealth of this part of London.
Three Burlington Northern painted "Cascade Green", now patched for BNSF SD40-2's lead a five-car Longmont Switch through Highland on this gorgeous March 24, 2015, morning.
BN 12533 parked on Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Mojave Subdivision Borax spur ~ (Boron) Kern County, CA
Note - Currently used as a shoving platform at the Borax mine.
Work train 93m, with an ex-Burlington Northern SD40-2, runs long hood forward as he pulls 10 loaded ballast cars out of the Harrisburg Yard and on to the mainline. The Operation Lifesaver painted unit would travel west down the Lurgan Branch, bound for the maintenance track at Chambersburg.
This ex-Burlington Northern SD40-2 has gotten a work out lately pulling ballast cars around Central Pennsylvania. Here the OLS painted EMD sits silent in Harrisburg Yard while a morning manifest works past it on the Pittsburgh mainline. The crew would arrive just a few minutes later, fire up the beast and then take it to Reading to pick up cars.
Burlington 4960 is Chicago bound as she departs Aurora on a trip from Ottawa, 1965. Scanning this shot makes me feel old thinking that I took this 53 years ago!
Monday, 29 August 2022
AMTK 715 departs Burlington VT hauling the 10.10am Amtrak Ethan Allen Express to New York Penn Station, crossing the Pine Street Barge Canal bridge.
The Ethan Allen Express started operating between Rutland and Burlington one month earlier on 29 July 2022.
© Finbarr O'Neill
The East End of the CB&Q ran from Aurora Tower at the Station (both long gone) through western Chicago Suburbs to Union Avenue Tower (long gone) at the west end of the wye south of Chicago Union Station. The East-End Way Freight worked most of that territory. I lived in Westmont, one of those suburbs in the 1950s and 60s and took many pictures of that Way freight. Here are three for starters.
CB&Q NW2 9232 with the eastbound East-End Way Freight at Westmont, IL on July 15, 1966.
Two Burlington Junction switchers pause between switching chores outside the cold food storage plant at Rochelle, IL, on 8-21-15.
This is the GP7 in the B&W photo I posted yesterday. It is CB&Q 242 in Rockford, IL on July 29, 1964.
Canadian National GP40 4017 and F9B 6618 with a Toronto bound passenger at Burlington West in October 1973. 4017 was one of 6 GP40 diesels fitted with higher gearing for passenger work.
Also of interest is the barrow loaded with express parcels for loading into the baggage car.
It was another Burlington Northernesque type of morning in Longmont, Colorado, as the "Buck Local" with a pair of Cascade Green painted Geeps shove back to the east yard next to a pair of Grinstein painted SD70MACs, on February 3, 2019.
A pair of SD40-2's and a GE B30-7A B-unit have a single boxcar in tow to setout at an industry.
This was taken just West of Wadsworth Blvd on the Front Range Sub in Westminster, CO. in October of 1991.
My dad took this shot of CBQ 9917A leading train #11 out of Burlington, IA back in December 1967.
My dad was always more into riding and watching trains, but he did take some pictures. Years later he lamented the fact that he didn't have a better camera, but even if the scans aren't perfect, viewing them now brings out some great stories and memories from him. I'll have to dig through and share some more of the oldies from the 60s.
The mattress factory was still seeing boxcars here between Main Street and 3rd Street and the yard was always busy. There was a ton of business in Burlington back then to keep three tricks of switch engines occupied, along with an operator, yardmaster, and plenty of clerks. Third trick's job mostly to switch out cars on passenger trains, which was my grandfather's job as a switchman for many years.
My dad took this shot of the Nebraska Zephyr in his hometown while on leave from the Air Force. Even though he was stationed in Turkey for most of his tour in the Air Force in the late 60s, he usually made it home to Burlington for Christmas.
When I started shooting in the 90s, he was always nice enough to help with money to buy film and equipment for me when I started shooting slides. Thanks Dad!
Shot taken by Bob Madsen in December of 1967.