Home | Date Photographed28 June 1998 |
Metra 200 and Milwaukee Road 261 at the Galesburg Railway Days.
The official Web site of Milwaukee Road 261 is at http://www.261.com. It presents their operating schedule, photographs, and information about the locomotive and its restoration activities.
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| A railfan critter quickly manages to ruin photos for quite a few photographers who'd been managing to work together quite nicely prior to his arrival. MILW 261, Steam locomotives, photographed on 28 June 1998 from onboard the Nebraska Zephyr at Galesburg (Illinois) Amtrak Depot by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera [zephyr/1998/06/98628l04.jpg] NEW! 5 March 2000 |
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A few minutes (and a few more spoiled photos) later, this railfan critter got quite indignant when I took his picture, and even more so when I explained that I wanted to remember the jerk who'd ruined so many peoples' photos.
Milwaukee Road 261 had been scheduled in June 1998 to pull two 20th Century Limited day trips from Chicago to Galesburg Railroad Days and return. Due to mechanical difficulties, the Saturday trip arrived several hours late. Diesel-electric power was substituted for the return trip on Saturday evening, and the outbound morning trip on Sunday. Repairs were effected, and Milwaukee Road 261 powered the Sunday evening return trip.
Chicago Rail Photographs collection updated 24 March 2025 at 09:53. Photographs and text copyright © 1998-2000 Harold A. Driscoll, All Rights Reserved. Email address is provided exclusively for personal contact, but emphatically not for use for SPAM net.abuse.