NKP 712 Editors Pick! Contributor's Pick!       
Bloomington, at BN Target on the west side of town. NKP 712 is crossing the four tracks of the GM&O (originally Alton) mainline. Date approximate. Thanks to Ray Breyer for his help in identifying the area!
Date: 4/15/1953 Location: Bloomington, IL   Map Show Bloomington on a rail map Views: 2892 Collection Of:   Wendy Crim
Locomotives: NKP 712(2-8-4)    Author:  Wendy Crim
NKP 712
Picture Categories: Steam,Signal,Track This picture is part of album:  NKP Berk Action Shots
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Name Type Comments Date
Fred Stuckmann General This is cool. 4/26/2012 12:22:42 AM
Tim Darnell General VERY cool! 4/26/2012 2:54:47 PM
John Danielson General Wow! Great photo! 4/26/2012 4:41:30 PM
Karl Rethwisch General HOME RUN Wendy !!!! Steam, semaphores and diamonds !!!! 4/26/2012 5:38:43 PM
Jim Matuska General This would make a excellent painting! Very nice Wendy! 4/26/2012 8:17:24 PM
Alan Fricker General Excellent one, Wendy! Judging from the truck and the cars that I can see, I think this photo was taken in the mid-1950s, i early spring. The dandelions and green grass suggest spring. 4/26/2012 9:44:10 PM
Tom Beckett General SWEET!!!! You can almost smell the coal smoke and hear the bang bang bang bang of the train going over the diamonds. 4/27/2012 2:22:13 PM
Fred Stuckmann General Congrats on this cool EP. 4/28/2012 6:50:01 PM
Robert Farkas General This is an "A+" photo. 4/28/2012 9:09:15 PM
Bernie Feltman General The semaphores are awesome ! 5/1/2012 10:09:55 PM
Alan Fricker General Now that I know where this is....the C&A station is not too far south of this diamond. This train is headed west to Peoria, about 45 miles away 6/22/2012 9:18:08 PM
Dennis Weber General Great Photo. 7/23/2012 8:46:09 PM
rahman syawal General awesome. gotta love it. 2/3/2013 10:37:25 PM
Kevin Painter General TREMENDOUS! I really like the whole scene. 3/8/2013 8:48:23 PM

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