OCS with a Special Guest - a photo on Flickriver

OCS with a Special Guest

            UP 5307 and UP 4404 charge underneath the coal tower in DeKalb, IL, with UP's OCS train, heading westbound out of Chicago after coming up from the St. Louis area earlier in the day.

Tonight's rendition has a special guest - the first car behind the locomotives is C&NW 553, which had been stored at Metra's Elburn facility since July 2022. There had been talk of the Illinois Railway Museum looking to acquire the car, but those plans never came to fruition.

Tonight the OCS made a special stop at Elburn to pick up the car and take it with the rest of the trainset to Council Bluffs, where its fate is unknown (at least by me).

Taken in: United States / Illinois / DeKalb (show map)

Taken on: March 9, 2024

Tags:

CNW

Chicago and Northwestern

CNW 553

coaling tower

C&NW coaling tower

Geneva Sub

Geneva Subdivision

DeKalb Illinois trains

DeKalb IL trains

flash photography

night photography « less

Sets appears in: • UP Geneva Sub

Groups appears in: • Trains and Trolleys • Night Photography more » • trains • Trainspotting • Chicago Rails • I Love Trains • North American Railfanning • MOVING trains --READ THE RULES • Union Pacific Fans • railfans • Transport In The Frame • Flash Photography • Rail Rider • Train Engines and Locomotives • Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana Railroads • Railroad Engines & Cars • GEVO • GE Locomotives • Night Train • Your Very Best Railroad Photos • Widecabs • Anything trains • Railroads At Night • Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland railfans • American Rails • Chicago and North Western Railroad • CNW - Chicago & NorthWestern • Night Trains • 1,000,000 TRAINS • Steel Rails Across North America. • Union Pacific Railfanning • LocoMotives • Railroad Photographer USA/Canada • Trains of the U.S.A. • Any Thing Trains • Train Photos - Embrace The Wedge! • Class 1 Railroads • Locomotive Photo Group • TRAINS AND TRACKS • U.S. Railfan Pictures • Night Rails • Union Pacific • Class I Railroads • Your Best Railroad Photos • Railroad Coaling Towers • UP Geneva Subdivision • Railfanning the Chicagoland Suburbs • Railroading in Illinois • 1,000,000 Locomotives • Railroad Night Photography • Indi-Illini railroaders association • GE Evolution Series Locomotives • North American Railfaning • GE Evolution Series • Railroad Night Lights • Trains for all • Railfan Atlas • GE and EMD locomotives • Trains Winter/Summer (No 30/60 limit) • Astonishing Railroad Photography • Rail Pictures North America • Stuff on Rails "opted out of 30/60" • USA - Pictures (No 30/60 limit) • Chicago Railfan Shenanigans « less

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6i, f/3.5, 1/250 sec, 18mm, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS Rebel T6i
Lens:	EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	18mm
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Partial
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Lightroom 7.2 (Windows)
Show full info

Stats: 954 views / 5 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder