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Frigid temps this week have me “firing up the way-back machine” looking back at old slides instead of venturing out to shoot new images. Here are a few from 1987-90 that convey “cold” to me.

First, C&NW SD40-2 leads a Chicago-bound freight past the old Litchfield & Madison engine house in Edwardsville, IL on 12-18-87.

 

Amtrak F40PH #274 @ Kirkwood, MO 11-21-88.

 

Next, CM&W GP38 #2036 heads north through Granite City, IL on 12-29-88.

 

A pair of UP B23-7s drift eastbound down grade through Kirkwood on March 7, 1989.

 

UP SD40-2 #4193 comes to a stop with a Labadie coal train in Dupo, IL on 2-3-90.

 

A few minutes later, a southbound empty coal train passes, led by SD40-2 #3811:

 

A former MoPac caboose brings up the rear of the southbound.

 

Finally, NS5158 on a local west of Wentzville in December of 1998

I’ve caught up to processing the video I’ve shot this summer, and have posted three new 15-minute videos on YouTube. I do almost all of my railfanning at lunch, which limits my range to west St Louis County. You never know what may come along, even if it’s the same locations. Just yesterday I passed on shooting any video because it was cold & windy with dark clouds; not ideal for shooting anything. I new an eastbound UP was approaching Valley Park, bu rather than scramble up the  embankment to shoot another UP coal train in those conditions, I chose to watch & eat my lunch.

Well, it wasn’t a coal train. It was a wind farm parts train, with blades, motors & such, an would have still looked cool on video. Lesson learned: shoot it anyway. You can always delete it or just not post it if it’s not worthy.

http://youtu.be/MhLLiylbX0o

http://youtu.be/LOYK1Lud2jA

http://youtu.be/ro49ybfYeBo