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DM&FtD Form in 1876
Title:  DM&FtD Form in 1876
Description:  DM&FtD Form in 1876
Photo Date:  8/15/1900  Upload Date: 3/28/2006 6:23:09 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  ?
Categories:  Station
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Views:  283   Comments: 0
SD in the 20s
Title:  SD in the 20s
Description:  My Grandpa was a migrant farm worker in the 1920s. He took this somewhere in South Dakota
Photo Date:  7/1/1925  Upload Date: 9/7/2009 2:59:02 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Rudolph Hopp
Categories:  Steam
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Views:  391   Comments: 0
CRIP 2-8-2 #2697 - Rock Island
Title:  CRIP 2-8-2 #2697 - Rock Island
Description:  Here is another original photo of a 1927 Alco-Schenectady built Mikado for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific line. Specifics - K67b class, 63" drivers, 210 psi boiler pressure, 28x30" cylinders, engine weight of 355,00 lb, tractive effort of 66,640 lb. Joseph Schick photo
Photo Date:  8/25/1929  Upload Date: 2/18/2015 9:32:59 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  CRIP 2697(2-8-2)
Views:  836   Comments: 0
Rare CRIP 0-4-0T #3 - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island)
Title:  Rare CRIP 0-4-0T #3 - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island)
Description:  Interesting photo of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 0-4-0T #3. From the makring on the side, it appears to be an S13 class locomotive but no information was found online about this. The back of the photo states "#3 0-4-0 at Iowas State Fair, Des Moines, Iowa 8/23/38." Melvin Hoffman photo
Photo Date:  8/23/1938  Upload Date: 3/30/2019 4:22:33 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CRIP 3(0-4-0)
Views:  554   Comments: 0
CRIP 2-8-2 #2624 - Chicago, RockIsland & Pacific
Title:  CRIP 2-8-2 #2624 - Chicago, RockIsland & Pacific
Description:  CRIP 2-8-2 #2624 was built by Alco-Brooks in February of 1923. Specs - K-64 class, 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 28x30" cylinders, eingine wt of 331,000 lb and tractive effort of 63,467 lb. After nearly 27 years of service, the loco was retired and sold for scrap in June of 1950. This is an R. H Carlson photo.
Photo Date:  9/9/1938  Upload Date: 2/16/2024 11:55:38 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  CRIP 2624(2-8-2)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
CB&Q 2-6-2 Class R-5 2122
Title:  CB&Q 2-6-2 Class R-5 2122
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad 2-6-2 Class R-5 2122, date, location, and photographer unknown, ( Des Moines, Iowa, maybe ) Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 2122 was built by Brooks Works ( Alco ) in 1906 ( c/n 41576 ) and retired in April 1947.
Photo Date:  6/1/1940  Upload Date: 6/6/2019 12:49:43 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  ulknown
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CBQ 2122(2-6-2)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
Bridge 115.55
Title:  Bridge 115.55
Description:  Between Albia and Des Moines
Photo Date:  7/15/1947  Upload Date: 3/16/2006 3:58:22 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  ?
Categories: 
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Views:  1129   Comments: 1
Brand New ALCos
Title:  Brand New ALCos
Description:  In fresh paint, new UP FA-1 1628 and two FBs pass through Des Moines, IA, likely being delivered to their owner.
Photo Date:  8/1/1948  Upload Date: 12/19/2024 8:49:06 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Richard H. Kindig
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 1628(FA1)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
MILW 2-8-2 #311 - Milwaukee Road
Title:  MILW 2-8-2 #311 - Milwaukee Road
Description:  Here is a good example of a 1918-19 Alco built USRA "heavy" Mikado, orginally #8611. Specs - 63" drivers, 27" x 32" cylinders, a 190 psi boiler pressure and 59,800 lb of tractive effort, engine weight of 325,000 lb. The class was scapped between 1938-56. Max Miller photo
Photo Date:  5/18/1952  Upload Date: 6/13/2015 5:20:10 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  MILW 311(2-8-2)
Views:  776   Comments: 0
MILW 2-8-2 #327 - Milwaukee Road
Title:  MILW 2-8-2 #327 - Milwaukee Road
Description:  Before a diesel wore the number "327", this 1918-19 Alco built USRA "heavy" Mikado had it, although its original number was #8627. Specs - L3 class, 63" drivers, 27" x 32" cylinders, a 190 psi boiler pressure and 59,800 lb of tractive effort, engine weight of 325,000 lb. The class was scapped between 1938-56. Max Miller photo
Photo Date:  6/1/1952  Upload Date: 6/13/2015 5:20:14 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  MILW 327(2-8-2)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
1953 Ottumwa Motor
Title:  1953 Ottumwa Motor
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1953  Upload Date: 9/19/2004 12:35:27 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  David Sommer
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Views:  328   Comments: 0
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Interurban 72
Title:  Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Interurban 72
Description:  Taken by an unknown photographer
Photo Date:  8/1/1955  Upload Date: 3/1/2022 9:42:51 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FDDMS 72(Interurban)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
DMU Alco S1 #2 - Des Moines Union Rwy
Title:  DMU Alco S1 #2 - Des Moines Union Rwy
Description:  Nice original photo by R. H. Carlson of the Alco S1 delivered May of 1940 (bldr # 69191) to the Des Moines Union Rwy. Although the reporting mark "DMU" is not recognized yet on this website, it is the one used for the Des Moines Union Ray.
Photo Date:  8/5/1956  Upload Date: 1/5/2016 10:20:14 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DMU 2(S1)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
MILW 2234
Title:  MILW 2234
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/11/1958  Upload Date: 3/15/2005 6:24:44 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MILW 2234(SD9)
Views:  1649   Comments: 0
CBQ 228
Title:  CBQ 228
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/11/1958  Upload Date: 5/11/2005 11:04:52 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CBQ 228(GP7)
Views:  1041   Comments: 1
CB&Q GP7 228
Title:  CB&Q GP7 228
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad GP7 228 at Des Moines, Iowa on August 30, 1958, photographer unknown, duplicate slide by Al Chione, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 228 was built in September 1951 ( c/n 14692 ), later became BN 1584, retired by the BN in August 1983.
Photo Date:  8/30/1958  Upload Date: 7/30/2021 6:19:46 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  unknown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBQ 228(GP7)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
CRIP RS1 #739
Title:  CRIP RS1 #739
Description:  Shuffling cars around in a yard to take out as an extra manifest the next day. Information and photo date provided with information given. Copyright John Cawood
Photo Date:  3/1/1960  Upload Date: 10/29/2010 10:42:19 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Adam Lutt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 739(RS1)
Views:  1175   Comments: 0
DM&CI 600
Title:  DM&CI 600
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/23/1960  Upload Date: 7/3/2020 1:34:14 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DMCI 600(70Tonner)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
DM&CI 100
Title:  DM&CI 100
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/28/1960  Upload Date: 7/3/2020 1:33:27 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DMCI 100(70Tonner)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Wabash F7 695
Title:  Wabash F7 695
Description:  Wabash F7 695 at Des Moines, Iowa, April 6, 1963, photo by Lou Schmitz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in July 1951 as Wabash F7 1174 (c/n 12613) on EMD Order 3008, it was renumbered to WAB 695 and later to N&W 3695.
Photo Date:  4/6/1963  Upload Date: 3/5/2011 12:15:31 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Lou Schmitz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WAB 695(F7A)
Views:  3744   Comments: 0
CGW 203 No Info
Title:  CGW 203 No Info
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 3/30/2005 10:06:14 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  ?
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CGW 203(GP30)
Views:  2362   Comments: 1
CRIP 736
Title:  CRIP 736
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/1965  Upload Date: 6/23/2005 9:06:06 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 736(RS1)
Views:  1443   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines under watchful eyes of early Railfan Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:49 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories:  Station
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Views:  787   Comments: 1
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:50 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories:  InCab
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Views:  657   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:51 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories:  Station
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Views:  407   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:52 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
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Views:  478   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:58 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  325   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:08 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson0
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Views:  257   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moikes
Title:  Leaving Des Moikes
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:11 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  195   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:13 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  406   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:14 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  195   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:15 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  258   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:16 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
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Views:  327881   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:17 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
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Views:  158   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:21:19 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
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Views:  369   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:32 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  1769710   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:33 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  292   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:34 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  288   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Passing Short Line Jct Tower(Now Demolished) Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:35 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  442   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:45 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  240   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:47 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  159   Comments: 0
Leaving Des Moines
Title:  Leaving Des Moines
Description:  Leaving Des Moines stopped for a Crew change(?) Date Unknown
Photo Date:  3/13/1965  Upload Date: 11/10/2008 10:20:48 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Eric Larson
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Views:  424   Comments: 0
CRI&P FP7 404
Title:  CRI&P FP7 404
Description:  CRI&P FP7 404 in Des Moines, Iowa on an unknown day in August 1965, Kodachrome by unknown photographer (but it looks like Dick Rumbolz's handwriting), Chuck Zeiler collection. Sorry about the motion blur, but the subject is still viewable. This locomotive was built in July 1949 (c/n 8625) on EMD Order E1199A, an order for ten FP7's (#'s 402-411).
Photo Date:  8/1/1965  Upload Date: 9/19/2009 12:07:44 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Dick Rumbolz
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 404(FP7A)
Views:  1750   Comments: 2
CRI&P RS1 739
Title:  CRI&P RS1 739
Description:  CRI&P RS1 739, Des Moines, Iowa, August 1965, photographer unknown, Chuck Zeiler collection. This locomotive was built in February 1944 (c/n 71316). In the late 1930's, at the request of the Rock Island, Alco stretched the 539T switcher frame by 8 ft. 6 in. to enable a short hood to be added behind the cab to provide space for a steam generator. Alco is generally credited with introducing the first true road switcher in 1941. Over the RS1's 19 years of production (1941-1960), 611 units were produced, 412 domestic, 144 for the US Army, and 55 exports. Alco managed to produce 13 RS1's before the War Production Board (WPB) placed restrictions on all domestic locomotive builders, and Alco was restricted to locomotives of 1000 horsepower or less. Since the RS1 fell into that category, Alco was allowed to continue production, but the 13 already produced locomotives were requisitioned by the WPB (including Rock Island's four units, #'s 746-749) , the trucks were changed to a C-C three axle three motor truck designed by Jerry Blunt to cope with the rough track on their intended assignment, the Trans Iranian Railway. The EMD FT was considered for this project, but the Navy had first priority on EMD diesel prime movers, so the FT was not available in the timeframe needed. A total of 57 C-C RS1's were built by Alco for the Army and sent to Iran, but because the Mediterranean was closed off by German submarines, the RS1's sailed around Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean and then to the Persian Gulf. Alco also produced an additional 100 RS1's for the WPB for use in Russia, the first 70 were built to a wide 5 foot gauge. The first 12 ended up at the bottom of the ocean; the ship carrying them was torpedoed by the Germans. The rest were well received by the Russians, so much so that they were "reverse engineered", and the Russians produced hundreds of TE, TE1, and TE2 class locomotives.
Photo Date:  8/1/1965  Upload Date: 10/19/2009 1:59:46 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 739(RS1)
Views:  1549   Comments: 2
DMU 5
Title:  DMU 5
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1968  Upload Date: 1/9/2019 10:43:27 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Jeffrey Lawrence
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  DMU 5(NW2)
Views:  316   Comments: 2
CRIP 0933
Title:  CRIP 0933
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 7/26/2004 5:28:10 PM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  James Mischke
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Locomotives:  CRIP 933(SW1200)
Views:  1079   Comments: 0
CGW 107C
Title:  CGW 107C
Description:  CGW F3A 107C, shown here at Hull Ave. Yard, would later be renumbered C&NW 203 in 1971, and traded into EMD 12/75
Photo Date:  11/6/1970  Upload Date: 2/22/2006 7:36:42 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
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Locomotives:  CGW 107C(F3A)
Views:  2160   Comments: 1
BN 1602
Title:  BN 1602
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/1970  Upload Date: 9/2/2016 10:38:05 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Jim Ferguson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 1602(GP7)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
BN 1602
Title:  BN 1602
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/1970  Upload Date: 9/2/2016 10:38:23 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Jim Ferguson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 1602(GP7)
Views:  269   Comments: 2
BN 1578
Title:  BN 1578
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/26/1970  Upload Date: 9/2/2016 10:38:40 AM
Location:  Des Moines, IA
Author:  Jim Ferguson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 1578(GP7)
Views:  405   Comments: 2

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