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What appears like a combine, one of the three remaining VIA blue cars, brought into Winnipeg for maintenence, these cars are in regular service up in Northern Manitoba on a mixed train.
I know I could of cropped out the fence, but it makes the shot more realistic. Took me a couple times to...
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I didn't get down to Blue Island often, but when I did I always found something interesting to shoot. I think this is a B-23 on traded-in trucks. Someone please jump in and correct me. Taken in the early 80's I believe.
This train was transferring from IHB's Blue Island Yard up to CNW's Proviso Yard on the IHB. The train is about to cross the Santa Fe diamond at McCook, IL. I'm not quite sure of the year, probably the mid 80's though.
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