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Not to neglect other railroads in town, here are a few shots from the neighborhood I grew up in, and am back in these days.
My parents house was in the SE quadrant of Newton Ave where the C&NW crossed the BN. A trained teenage ear got me running out the door many times.
If I heard the BN I could bolt across the neighbors yard for a shot like this.

Or if I was fast enough I could catch the Old Town yard job, via a foot path through the field.

I occasionally shot a few of the cars like these NP and GN boxcars, probably in flour service.

Every now and then I would get fooled by the horn on the BN, but shot the work trains too.

C&NW ran a lot more trains back then, I remember looking down the tracks at the semaphore to tell if a train was coming, if I had time I would head for the diamond.

If not I could run across the tracks at 26th Ave for a shot like this

And if my timing was really off I could just step out on the Ave.

Another neat job that worked East End was the flour mill transfers, the C&NW used their East End yard for interchange with the BN. I'm not sure why but it seems to me the C&NW could bring cars down to the Old Town Yard but could not bring them back with them, and the BN could bring cars up to the C&NW but not bring any back. At least that is how I remember it, don't recall it happening any other way. Here is the 1301 working that transfer on the wye at Newton Ave.

That's it for now, back to scanning mode for a while.

Dan Mackey
Superior, WI