	Veterans’ Association of the Chicago & North Western Railway

	*Organized* *December 9, 1924*

An Assortment of Photographs – Page 2
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Here are some photographs sent in by Chris Burger, Stan Eyres, Ed Henry, Mark Llanuza, Charlie McLaughlin & Merrill Price. Contributions are welcome and appreciated. Please send them to the webmaster.


Here's one that goes way back to the 1930’s. This is Earl Clotfelter, a machinist at Boone, Iowa standing alongside the 2425, a hand fired Class J engine. Mr. Clotfelter’s grandson, Stan Eyres, contributed the picture.	From Merrill Price, we have this 1976 picture of a Chicago & North Western “Happy Birthday America” trailer taken at Marshalltown Iowa.

Left to right are: Skip Pierce, retired Wisconsin Division conductor and former trainmaster, Pat Perrier, retired Twin Cities conductor and former trainmaster & Bob Brownell, retired DM&E president and former CNW officer at Tucson, AZ in February 2005. The mural is on the back of Skip and his wife Pat's mobile home, (Skip and Pat's Business Car). Photo is from Chris Burger.	Necedah, Wisconsin in 1979 or thereabouts. No. 415, (Chicago / Itasca) is passing an inspection train coming off the connection to the MILW line to Wisconsin Rapids -- where we had trackage rights. For the historians, eng. 867 on No. 415 was the very first "production" SD-40. Another -- lesser known, C&NW first. Photo is from Chris Burger.

Illinois Division Men - Engineer Bob Unger (left) & Conductor Gary Strack, both with over 30 years of service. Photo by Mark Llanuza	Illinois Division engineer Dennis Jenkco (left) and Conductor Mike Bergeron at West Chicago in 1979. We’ve caught Mike before. This link will get you to him. Photo from the Dennis Jenkco collection.

Chris Burger and Illinois Division engineer Rex Hauser at the Spooner Railroad Museum in May 2001. Photo by Mark Llanuza.	Operation Lifesaver heads west through Palatine, Illinois in Oct. 1987 enroute to Madison, Wisconsin. Chris Burger is on the rear platform hiding behind the girl in the yellow shirt. Photo by Mark Llanuza.

Illinois Division engineer Rex Hauser checking out the Clinton Car Shops in 1998. Photo by Mark Llanuza.	Rex, again, passing through West Chicago in 1988. Photo by Mark Llanuza.

Illinois Division engineer Captain Woody Wilson, now retired, at Rock Springs, Wisconsin. Photo by Mark Llanuza.	June 1982 grand opening at West Chicago with Bill Otter on the left. Eugene Rennels, then Mayor of West Chicago, is in the middle with Ed Burkhardt on the right. Thanks to Rex Hauser for identifying Gene & Ed. Photo by Mark Llanuza.

From Ed Henry comes this photo of the latest in railroad weed control technology. Ed discovered this high-tech rig in use at Arkansas’ Queen Wilhelmina state park on 07/20/05 where it’s “death on weeds” on their miniature train right-of-way. Some folks think Arkies are backward, but think of the imaginative mind & innovation it took to put this together.	Here’s a scoot on the main line at West Chicago back in 1959. If you look real close, that’s Conductor Willie O’Brian off to the left. How long has it been since anyone’s seen a consist like this? Thanks to Charlie McLaughlin for this “trip back in time.”

Ed & Chris Henry toured the Tilden Iron Ore Mine at Negaunee, Michigan on 8/24/05. It's a tour Ed found hard to believe they do because you are taken right through the plant, & shown everything while the machinery is running, subjecting you to dust, dirt, noise & extreme heat from the massive grinders & the furnace; all which makes you feel relieved to get back outside. Looks like Ed & Chris came through it okay!	A few days earlier on 08/09/05, Ed & Chris took a ride on the S.S. Badger, which operates between Manitowoc, Wisconsin and Ludington, Michigan. The S.S. Badger claims to be the last steam/ferry passenger ship still operating in U.S. waters.

Revised: 08/25/05