Chicago & North Western Railroad

Freight: Open hopper cars

C&NW 110558 (open ballast hopper car) beside the 40th Street Yard (Chicago, Illinois). (photographed 18 October 1998)

C&NW 110558 (open ballast hopper car) beside the 40th Street Yard (Chicago, Illinois). (photographed 18 October 1998)

C&NW 110558 (open ballast hopper car) beside the 40th Street Yard (Chicago, Illinois). (photographed 18 October 1998)

C&NW 201437 (open ballast hopper car) beside the 40th Street Yard (Chicago, Illinois). (photographed 18 October 1998)

C&NW 201437 (open ballast hopper car) beside the 40th Street Yard (Chicago, Illinois). (photographed 18 October 1998)

C&NW 201446 (two-bay open hopper car) in the Elk Grove Village (Illinois) rail yard. (photographed 21 September 1998)

C&NW 201575 (two-bay open hopper car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 27 September 1998)

C&NW 791126 (open hopper car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). The car carries the stencil "ore service only." (photographed 28 September 1998)

C&NW 791279 (open hopper car) in the Proviso Rail Yard (Melrose Park, Illinois). (photographed 28 September 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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