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RJR:  Yep, Been there, done that.  I was out at the Iowa Terminal a while back.  Let's see now;  I believe that it was in 1969 or 1970.  BUT, from your photos, it really doesn't look much different.  Same W-B steeple cabs, same ROW and overhead.  Really a neat place to visit. 

 

But they don't have any GE steeple cabs, to the best of my knowledge.  I think that the GE's were a bit older, at least of an older design, than the W-B's that these guys use.  I remember when the North Shore had about five or six of them (where the term: "pups" were first used) and they served until the end of service in 1963.  The Milwaukee Roads were used until the end of that operation in 1974.

 

Paul Fischer

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