UP SD40-2's NEW Layout

[UP SD40-2]

Thanks so much! , ED & Don  , for your VERY KIND words, it really means a lot to me. It is nice to be back, though only a couple of us post on this thread, I see by the hits there are more then post that actually read it, thats nice since I am really a loner except for my wife and dog, and lets face it, they really dont give a...hoot...about trains   . At least I can talk with you folks, its nice, really, Thank you!   

So a couple posts back I posted some shots of my CNW DL109, and mentioned I had seen pics of the CNW DL109 here in WI, and wondered if it had ran through Beloit. I did a lot of searching over the last week and sadly did not find anything on the DL109 running through Beloit, HOWEVER, I did find a train schedule that contained the trains that actually DID run through Beloit! 

The Milwaukee Road & CNW BOTH had stations and mainlines that ran right through Beloit here, the CNW on the West side of town(where I grew up) , and the Milwaukee on the East side(where I now reside) . I remember the Milwaukee Station, I think it was tore down around the time I was 7? , but the CNW was tore down not long before/after I was born. Anyways, the schedule I found does not give a year as to when it was, all I knew for sure until I happened across this schedule was that in 1962 the CNW Twin Cities 400 stopped in beloit daily at 12:26pm . 
I am posting the schedule just because I thought it was neat....


On another note, my layout is loosely based on UP here in WI during/after the UP mergers, with WSOR(they really came to be in 1980) as the local road. I have 4 WSOR engines, 3 SD40-2's and 1 GP38. I ran them this week, nothing special, I run them often, but here's some shots over this last week...








A random shot I posted in Side Shot Saturday of my GP20...


This last one is for Charlie, Its my Aerotrain made by ConCor. The ConCor version is nice, runs very smooth, it has headlights and interior lights in the engine and all cars, but does not have tail lights. Charlie, I like the headlights you did and the tail lights WAY BETTER then ConCor had done them. I ended up finding my Bowser set, honestly I think the lettering is better on the Bowser set then it is on the ConCor set also.


Thats all for now, till next time...