Chicago & North Western Railroad

Freight: Box cars

Even box cars can be quite interesting, particularly when you look at the variety of colors and markings within the C&NW fleet.

C&NW 155002 (box car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 26 September 1998)

C&NW 155002 (box car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 26 September 1998)

C&NW 155215 (box car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 September 1998)

C&NW 155413 (box car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 September 1998)

C&NW 155534 (box car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 30 October 1998)

C&NW 155534 (box car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 30 October 1998)

C&NW 156184 (box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 29 September 1998)

C&NW 156184 (box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 29 September 1998)

C&NW 164108 (plug-door box car) in the Proviso North Rail Yard. (photographed 31 October 1998)

C&NW 164108 (plug-door box car) in the Proviso North Rail Yard. (photographed 31 October 1998)

C&NW 164108 (plug-door box car) in the Proviso North Rail Yard. (photographed 31 October 1998)

C&NW 540354 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 29 September 1998)

C&NW 540354 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 25 October 1998)

C&NW 540354 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 11 October 1998)

C&NW 540354 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 29 September 1998)

C&NW 540409 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 25 October 1998)

C&NW 540409 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 29 September 1998)

C&NW 540409 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 25 October 1998)

C&NW 540409 (double-door plug-door box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 11 October 1998)

C&NW 715017 (box car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 September 1998)

C&NW 716000 (box car (former Rock Island) ) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 26 September 1998)

C&NW 716000 (box car (former Rock Island) ) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 26 September 1998)

C&NW 716207 (box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 22 September 1998)

C&NW 716370 (box car (former Rock Island)) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 3 October 1998)

C&NW 718104 (box car (former Rock Island) ) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 September 1998)

C&NW 721060 (Pullman Standard PS-1 Hydroframe-40 box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 19 December 1998)

C&NW 721065 (Pullman Standard PS-1 Hydroframe-40 box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 11 October 1998)

C&NW 721065 (Pullman Standard PS-1 Hydroframe-40 box car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 25 October 1998)

C&NW 721072 (box car (former Rock Island) ) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 25 October 1998)

C&NW 721072 (box car (former Rock Island) ) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 25 October 1998)

C&NW 721072 (box car (former Rock Island) ) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 11 October 1998)

I took these photographs during the Fall of 1998 using a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera. Adobe Photoshop was used for electronic dark room processing. I've written a custom perl 5 script which constructs these pages from a terse text description file, using a template file.

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