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All NWS soldiıers are also equipped with a punch dagger for close quarters situations, that can be neatly stowed in a belt or boot sheath
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Henryc Thoenen (O, Wiedlisbach) gegen Christian von Arx (U, Balsthal) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Christian Brand (V, Metzerlen) gegen Christoph Bieri (H, Untersiggenthal) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Willy Graber (R, Bolligen) gegen Marc Stoffel (L, Allschwil) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Janic Voggenspereger (L, Schoenenbuch) gegen Pascal Piemontesi (R, Eclêpens) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Lorenz Blatter (V, Solothurn) gegen Willy Graber (H, Bolligen) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Matthias Glarner (H, Meiringen) gegen Henryc Thonen (V, Wiedlisbach) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Remo Stalder (U, Muemliswil) gegen Michale Bless (O, Gais) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Matthias Glarner (O, Meiringen) gegen David Schmid (U, Wittnau) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
The other new EMD SW1001 #2 is working the west end of the Northwestern Steel and Wire plant as the C&NW Sterling switcher passes by.
Brand new SW1001 #3 passes by the home made gantry crane that is having a wheel set removed/replaced.
Note the trucks that are used under the crane, they came from a diesel that the Northwestern Steel and Wire plant has scrapped.
With the Fourth of July festivities continuing through the weekend, the fireworks show du jour for Saturday, July 6th was in Amboy, IL. Amboy was chosen specifically for the proximity of the Amboy Depot Museum, and specifically the steam locomotive, to the fireworks. The Depot Museum used to be the division headquarters of Illinois Central Railroad's original mainline from Galena to Cairo. The Charter Line has direct ties to Abraham Lincoln, but got subsequently downgraded after the IC built a branch line to a sleepy little town named Chicago. Renamed the "Gruber Line" in it's later years, the line was abandoned in the early 1980s.
Meanwhile, the steam locomotive that now resides here is one of the last operating steam locomotives in everyday revenue service. Now on static display, ole' 8376 is an 0-8-0 built in 1929 as a switcher for the Grand Trunk Western RR.
When it and her sisters were sent to scrap at Northwestern Steel and Wire in Sterling, IL, they liked them so much they decided to keep them. The steamers remained operational until late 1980, when the fires were dropped for good shortly after the passing of NWS&W's owner. This particular locomotive was brought out of storage, restored, and officially re-commissioned in 1976, as NWS&W #76, making it the last steam engine to be commissioned for regular freight service (industrial switching) in America.
North Western Steel and Wire 0-8-0 #73 working along side of C&NW VO1000M 1245 that foretells the end of steam at the steel mill in Sterling, IL
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Henryc Thoenen (H, Wiedlisbach) gegen Christian von Arx (V, Balsthal) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)
Fulenbach, 7. August 2016, Schwingen - Nordwestschweizerisches Schwingfest Fulenbach 2016. Janic Voggenspereger (L, Schoenenbuch) gegen Pascal Piemontesi (R, Eclêpens) (Rolf Eicher/EQ Images)