Chicago & North Western Railroad

Freight: Gondola cars

The life of a freight car can be rough, and gondola cars seem to often take more than their share.

C&NW 130137 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 30 October 1998)

C&NW 137292 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 15 December 1998)

C&NW 137322 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 15 December 1998)

C&NW 350333 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 13 October 1998)

C&NW 350386 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 4 December 1998)

C&NW 350486 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 4 December 1998)

C&NW 350548 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 4 December 1998)

C&NW 350626 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 October 1998)

C&NW 350626 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 October 1998)

C&NW 350688 (open gondola car) in the Proviso Rail yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 30 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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