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Title: Location, please
Post by: Joe Land on February 25, 2013, 07:00:44 pm

Photo of NW2 #12 switching, Jan 1970. No location named on the slide. Ken Lentz collection.

Title: Re: Location, please
Post by: Tom Kepshire on February 25, 2013, 08:59:35 pm

I do believe this is South Hammond. On the left side of the photo is the freight house.

Title: Re: Location, please
Post by: Ken Weller on February 25, 2013, 09:57:27 pm

What is the boxcar behind the engine?  Northen Pacific?  Can't quite make it out.

Title: Re: Location, please
Post by: Eric Reinert on February 25, 2013, 10:55:50 pm

Yep, this is South Hammond, at the north end of the north yard, south of 165th Street, at about Vine street I'd say. Lyman street is to the right and parallels the yard. The NW-2 is kicking cars. I used to hear them working day and night as a kid living at Jackson and Vine.
Revving up...  silence .... and the light (or not-so-light!) BOOM of the car(s) hitting the standing cut, over and over.
I feel for the switchmen, it sure looks cold in this photo!

Eric Reinert

Title: Re: Location, please
Post by: Tim T Swan on February 28, 2013, 11:59:59 pm

GREAT description of the sounds of kicking the cars, Eric!  Brings back memories!

And Ken, yes, that's an NP boxcar being shunted.

To Tom K.:  Thought you said in a previous post that your eyesight was failing.  Though you correctly pointed out in this photo the direction of the freighthouse, I sure can't see it!

Title: Re: Location, please
Post by: Gene Remaly on March 01, 2013, 07:33:50 am

I notice the hand rail are on the hood. When did shops move them to the deck ?