| C&NW E9BA 501 at Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 501 was built in December 1962 as UP E9B 910B (c/n 27696) on EMD Order 7629. It was sold to PNC and purchased by the C&NW in September 1972. It was rebuilt by the C&NW, received a home-made cab (designated as a Crandall Cab, named after the Assistant Superintendent of Motive Power M. H. Crandall), and became C&NW 501 on May 12, 1973 (held in the accounts as a CGW locomotive). It was retired by the C&NW on December 31, 1977, sold to the RTA and leased back for operation. It was retired by the RTA May 2, 1983, sold to Naporano Iron & Metal as scrapped sometime around June-July 1985. |