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Freight and MOW cars in the Waukegan yard. Includes a variety of shots of several empty Commonwealth Edison coal hopper cars.
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Harold Kept many of his photos on sites which no longer exist. |
| Twilight sets on Union Pacific 1709 GM EMD GP15-1 diesel-electric locomotive as it idles in the Waukegan UP locomotive yard. UP 1709, UP, GM EMD GP15-1, UP locomotives, Locomotives, photographed on 6 November 1999 at Waukegan UP locomotive yard by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 digital camera (with tripod) [railfan/1999/11/99b06648.jpg] NEW 8 November 1999 |
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UP 1709 was built in March 1982, GM EMD GP15-1, builder number 817035-05, Missouri Pacific 1709, to UP number on 21 August 1987. Not equipped with dynamic braking. [courtesy of Union Pacific Locomotive Directory, Don Strack, Withers Publishing, ISBN 1-881411-16-8, 1998]
UP 1709: yard switcher, EMD GP15-1, 1,500 hp. [courtesy of Roster of UPRR Locomotive Ownership, January 1, 1999.]
Equipment characteristics of UP 1709: AAR car type D112 (locomotive), external dimensions (length 54' 11", width 10' 4", height 15' 0"). [courtesy of BNSF Equiptment Characteristics, December 1999]
Chicago Rail Photographs collection updated 3 January 2025 at 23:24. 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.