KBSR 312

switching bird seed plant

switching bird seed plant

near Raub nice wildflowers

at Otterbein...crews used that yellow Maverick to run ahead and flag crossings

Sheldon

near Raub

enroute to Lafayette

Northbound

power lined up waiting at Fowler

southbound enroute to Danville switching bird feed plant

switching bird feed plant

shoved train down to Kankakee depot while NKP 765 was turned

Caught with a string of grain hoppers in one of its namesake cities, Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern Alco RS11 #312 pulls past the Beaverville grain elevator with the typical plume of Alco black smoke. No photographer was listed and the date is approximate.

A couple of Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern locos are working near what appears to be the grain elevator in Otterbein, IN. KBSR #312 in the foreground is former NW RS11 #312, now on the KBSR roster. No photographer was listed and the date is approximate.

Good close up of former Norfolk & Western Alco RS11 #312 now serving the Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern RR. No photographer was listed and the date is approximate.

Taking the curve near the St Anne grain elevator is KBSR Alco RS11 #312, nee-NW 312. Note the unusually high banking on the curve - or possibly poor track stability on one side? No photographer was listed for the photo and the date is approximate.

Running through freshly harvested fields near St Anne, IL, is KBSR Alco RS11 #312, nee-NW #312. No photographer was listed and the date is approximate.

Slowly crossing the Kankakee River on the long trestle bridge near Aroma Park, IL, is Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern RS11 #351 with its small local hopper train. Built by Alco in April of 1956 as NW #312, it has found a home on the KBSR along with several other Alco units. No photographer was listed for the photo. The date is approximate.

NB

312 is parked at an industry north of the junction.

KBS RS11 stored. Notice the vintage N&W logo bleeding thru the paint on the nose.