Charles City Western traction railway in Iowa film

Bruce · **Joined:** Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:23 pm **Posts:** 19

HudsonL wrote:

I believe the fantrip locomotive is CCW 300, if so it is being restored at IRM.

http://www.irm.org/gallery/CCW300

-Hudson

You were correct, CCW 300 was the one in my video. I can view my videos with a stop frame with enhancements, and it was the #300. Good Catch!

HudsonL · **Joined:** Mon May 24, 2010 10:22 am **Posts:** 548

One of my favorite all-time Railroad Pictures.

Ya think the Football team had summer jobs on the RR?

5 man crew on a 25 tonner.

-Hudson

Dennis Storzek · **Posted:** Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:07 pm

Given the water can on the walkway, and all the young bucks are shirtless, I'd say they are going out to do track work somewhere. I remember someone trying to recruit me to go out to Mason City for a "position" like that about 1970 or so... no thanks!

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Bruce wrote:

J3a-614 wrote:

Great footage! (And this comes from a steam guy!)

Of course, this very definitely was an excursion of some kind. I found the choice of a B&O drop-end gon for the excursionists most interesting, in that there is movie footage of an excursion on the B&O itself with two such gons in the train, which is assigned an EM-1-2-8-8-4!

I like the B&O gon too! Wait till you see the footage of the B&O maiden voyage of the "Cincinnatian" (that might be spelled wrong) steam loco in color and it's cars. I will post it next. Not sure when I'll get to it, but might be today or tomorrow. Bruce

Yes, obviously a fantrip of some type. I like the fact that they unloaded from the drop end gondola at each spot, then backed up for the photo run. Nicely done! I thought that the B&O gondola was an interesting piece of equipment to use; just grabbing it after some kind of a delivery made to the CCW. Then I got to wondering if perhaps the short line had purchased the used gon and put it into company service. It seems like the reporting marks might have been changed from B&O, but couldn't tell for sure. BTW, that one spot with the "kink" in the track was interesting. Did they actually go through that? I thought that they were going to stop short of it, but the indication was maybe they went through it! Short line railroading after all!

Les

DanHetzel · **Joined:** Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:29 pm **Posts:** 26

I am happy to report CC&W car 50 is alive and well giving people rides from the BSV Depot to downtown Boone. A true gem to have. This year the car is 100 years old, though you would never know it. Come out and see it

http://www.scenic-valleyrr.com/electric.html

Dan Hetzel

skytop45 · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:01 pm **Posts:** 50

The trolley wire was severely damaged by an F5 tornado that ripped through Floyd County May 15th 1968. What overhead the tornado didn't remove the railroad did shortly there after.