…… The junk yard.

An inescapable reality that all cars and trucks must eventually face, as this Southern Minnesota graveyard of the rusted automobile clearly illustrates. – October 2024 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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I am fairly certain that the symbol for this Canadian Pacific local was K48, caught at the Union Pacific diamonds in Albert Lea, Minnesota on October 3rd, 2024. – We had been waiting for the UP job off in the distance to leave town with its nice set of three GPs, and then this CPKC job came along (the UP job never did present itself for our cameras).

The tracks on the UP side here were once those of the Rock Island, then the Chicago & North Western after that, and the CPKC was formerly a Milwaukee Road line that ran west from Austin out to Jackson, and then became part of the Soo Line.

Not sure when this abandoned brick interlocking tower was built, but I would imagine that long, long ago it had originally been a wooden structure. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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What a stark contrast between the machinery visible in this scene near Mason City, Iowa – Modern trucks and the modern elevators, conveyers, and equipment of an AG Processing plant as a background for an Iowa Traction steeple cab electric built by Baldwin Locomotive Works way back in the year 1920. – October 3rd, 2024 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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The same CPKC train as my previous post, K36 with a single SD30C-ECO, is now stopped at Nora Springs for some work at a track side elevator there in town.

This local was a Mason City to Charles turn run on an as-needed basis. – October 3rd, 2024 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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Just out of Rudd, Iowa and approaching Nora Springs – CPKC local K36 is crossing Echo Lane early in the morning of October 3rd, 2024. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©

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