Hi Jack - Great video footage of the C&NW. I really enjoy the many vintage videos that you post on RUclips. Memorializing past train action for future generations to enjoy is very much appreciated. Thank you! Mike
Great Video Jack. Rochelle has changed so much since this video. The Del Monte warehouse by the diamond is now abandoned, and the old Cantelevers are gone and replaced with new lightweight aluminum ones, and the line has been taken over by PTC
Thanks Ben. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the update on the area. Sad. Things are always changing, I we seem to loose more and more neat stuff. Thanks for watching...
That it is! I was reluctant to post these, thinking they were still new. But they are actually close to 25 years old. So they are vintage. Thanks for watching...
The C&NW I was familiar with in Minneapolis and westward was a very poor granger road with tracks on par with Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern’s-let’s just say it was bad. Beat-up geeps and f-units with a GP38-2 now and then. Never any six-axle diesels. They served a McGarvey coffee roasting plant and a huge grain elevator next to that in the area I used to take pictures in.
Hi Jack, do you remember if this train went through Morrison, IL? I'm new to this and was tracing the CNW route of the Kate Shelley, which I think came through our town in the '60's. We are 11 miles east of Clinton. Do you know if the same train went through Rochelle?
Foamer video alert. The video only shows the locomotives going by plus a few freight cars afterwards, not the whole train. That aside, i miss the cnw and the other roads that the up gobbled up.
Most of the time I taped the complete train Joe. I found out that most people will stop viewing the video, and move on to something else if I included the complete train in the clip. I can see this in my RUclips Analytics settings, were I can see where the viewership drops off on each clip. I guess some people get bored quicker. With the 8mm clips from the 70's, there was only 3-1/2 minutes of film on a cartridge. Most of the time it took a train longer to pass in that time, and 8mm film and processing was very expensive in the 70's. Thanks for watching...
@@1jackdk It was a reference to the railfan park they put in. They had to fence it in to keep people off the tracks. So we just started referring to it as the petting zoo!
The good old C&NW, the left-handed railroad. Thank you for sharing Jack.
Hi Jack - Great video footage of the C&NW. I really enjoy the many vintage videos that you post on RUclips. Memorializing past train action for future generations to enjoy is very much appreciated. Thank you! Mike
Thanks Mike. Glad you enjoyed it, and now its out there for everyone to see railroad of another era. History saved forever. Thanks for watching...
Thanks so much for filming this and sharing it with us, I love the good ole CNW!
Thank you Jack. I really like watching.
Great Video Jack. Rochelle has changed so much since this video. The Del Monte warehouse by the diamond is now abandoned, and the old Cantelevers are gone and replaced with new lightweight aluminum ones, and the line has been taken over by PTC
Thanks Ben. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the update on the area. Sad. Things are always changing, I we seem to loose more and more neat stuff. Thanks for watching...
Sweet CNW!! Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed it Ben. Thanks for watching..
Miss the CNW, don't miss Zito yellow.
When Rochelle was great! Glorious times. Thanks for sharing! 👍
Yes what a MASTER PIECE
Thanks, and thanks for watching...
This great vintage video of a bygone railroad.
That it is! I was reluctant to post these, thinking they were still new. But they are actually close to 25 years old. So they are vintage. Thanks for watching...
Great
Love old flim. Jack 🤘
Thanks J.D.F
The C&NW I was familiar with in Minneapolis and westward was a very poor granger road with tracks on par with Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern’s-let’s just say it was bad. Beat-up geeps and f-units with a GP38-2 now and then. Never any six-axle diesels. They served a McGarvey coffee roasting plant and a huge grain elevator next to that in the area I used to take pictures in.
Hi Jack, do you remember if this train went through Morrison, IL? I'm new to this and was tracing the CNW route of the Kate Shelley, which I think came through our town in the '60's. We are 11 miles east of Clinton. Do you know if the same train went through Rochelle?
Yes it did Lanna. This train crossed the Mississippi at Clinton, runs through Rochelle, and is on its way to Chicago. Thanks for watching...
Love the GE at 1:37
I do love those GE's. Thanks for watching...
Awesome. Was this after CNW was purchased by the UP?
Before. UP purchased CNW in 1995. :)
April 1995 Matthew. So this was a year before the buy-out. Thanks for watching..
jackmp294.5™ loved that video of the SD 38 in notch 8. Awesome
Clinton, Iowa huh? Well that's not very far from me. I'm 13 so I never got to see these magnificent trains, but either way these are awesome.
Love those K5Hs
What happened to CNW’s C40-8C locomotives
Not sure, but I think they were traded in. Thanks for watching...
Late reply , but there were some that were sold to the CN
Foamer video alert. The video only shows the locomotives going by plus a few freight cars afterwards, not the whole train. That aside, i miss the cnw and the other roads that the up gobbled up.
Most of the time I taped the complete train Joe. I found out that most people will stop viewing the video, and move on to something else if I included the complete train in the clip. I can see this in my RUclips Analytics settings, were I can see where the viewership drops off on each clip. I guess some people get bored quicker. With the 8mm clips from the 70's, there was only 3-1/2 minutes of film on a cartridge. Most of the time it took a train longer to pass in that time, and 8mm film and processing was very expensive in the 70's. Thanks for watching...
I liked it better there before the petting zoo was put in!
LOL. They got a PETTING ZOO there now??? That's funny. Bet the animals freak out with all the horn blowing. Thanks for watching Chad...
@@1jackdk It was a reference to the railfan park they put in. They had to fence it in to keep people off the tracks. So we just started referring to it as the petting zoo!
@@ChadsRailfanExperience Roger that!!! LOL I get, and understand. LOL