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Viewing Album:  Sioux City Railroad Museum
 
By:Matthew Zisi
Dates:3/14/2017 - 3/14/2017
Album Info:Back in March, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Sioux City Railroad Museum! Located in western Iowa on the grounds of the old Milwaukee Railroad shops, this delightful complex is full of railroad equipment! The highlight of the collection is the steam engine, but they also have a couple cabooses, some other rolling stock, and a nice model layout. Plus, the collection is housed inside a genuine roundhouse, which still has the old turntable in front of it. If you are ever in the area, definitely add this to your plans. Enjoy!
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Refrigerator Cars
Title:  Refrigerator Cars
Description:  Looking cold in the snow!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 4:54:04 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  84   Comments: 0
Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge
Title:  Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge
Description:  This bridge was built by the Burlington Northern Railroad and opened in 1982, spanning the Missouri River. It replaced an earlier bridge the Chicago & Northwestern had owned, which had fallen into disrepair. Since that bridge was torn down, the C&NW was granted trackage rights over this bridge, and Union Pacific still holds those today. For more info, check out http://www.johnweeks.com/river_missouri/pages/neian_mo_06.html
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 4:53:01 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Hopper Car Train
Title:  Hopper Car Train
Description:  While driving north on Interstate 29, we were luck enough to find a train on our right.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 4:55:26 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  93   Comments: 0
BNSF 479895 AOK 66517 BNSF 488633
Title:  BNSF 479895 AOK 66517 BNSF 488633
Description:  At base of bluff
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 4:57:05 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
Santa Fe Hopper
Title:  Santa Fe Hopper
Description:  ATSF 313773. I like the old-fashioned script they used to paint the numbers in.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 4:58:28 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
BNSF 8332 6363
Title:  BNSF 8332 6363
Description:  I forget whether these were leading or trailing-although, in fact, the train might not have been moving when we passed it!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 4:59:57 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8332(ES44C4) BNSF 6363(ES44AC)
Views:  178   Comments: 0
BNSF 6363
Title:  BNSF 6363
Description:  Last-second shot!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 7/8/2018 5:00:52 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6363(ES44AC)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
SLHX 1984
Title:  SLHX 1984
Description:  Appropriately, the yard contains a Milwaukee Road caboose-though, ironically, this caboose never served on the Milwaukee Road! It was built as #11168 for the Chicago and North Western. Painted since then.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:22:21 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  186   Comments: 0
Handcar
Title:  Handcar
Description:  No. 3
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:50:21 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories: 
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Views:  105   Comments: 0
Northern Pacific 1318
Title:  Northern Pacific 1318
Description:  Built in 1913
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:51:16 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  155   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road sign
Title:  Milwaukee Road sign
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:52:06 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories: 
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Views:  100   Comments: 0
Great Northern 1355
Title:  Great Northern 1355
Description:  The pride and joy of the collection!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:53:18 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  GN 1355(4-6-2)
Views:  307   Comments: 0
Northern Pacific 1318
Title:  Northern Pacific 1318
Description:  The guide book for the tour was about eight years old. Since then, this caboose has gone from white to a more classic red.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:55:25 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  168   Comments: 0
Great Northern 1355 Controls
Title:  Great Northern 1355 Controls
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:56:10 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  InCab,Steam
Locomotives:  GN 1355(4-6-2)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
SHRA 1
Title:  SHRA 1
Description:  Like that caboose outside, this engine also never served on the Milwaukee Road. It had a more military role, built for the Marines during World War II.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:57:40 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SHRA 1(45Tonner)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Great Northern 1355
Title:  Great Northern 1355
Description:  Built by Baldwin as a 4-6-0 in 1909, this engine was reconfigured to its current 4-6-2 shape in 1924.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:58:55 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 1355(4-6-2)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
Great Northern 1355
Title:  Great Northern 1355
Description:  In its heyday, this engine pulled the Empire Builder across the Northern United States.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:00:13 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 1355(4-6-2)
Views:  238   Comments: 0
Shuttlewagon
Title:  Shuttlewagon
Description:  Built in 1974 for $35,478. If the railroad purchaed it new 35 years later, it would have been $218,000
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:04:40 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories: 
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
Great Northern 1355
Title:  Great Northern 1355
Description:  After retirement in 1955, the engine was saved when I.W. Reck of Sioux City wrote the railroad asking they donate the engine. Now, it sits on display for future generations to enjoy!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:06:59 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  GN 1355(4-6-2)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
Northern Pacific 1318
Title:  Northern Pacific 1318
Description:  Originally numbered 1877, and most likely built at the South Tacoma Shops in Washington
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:08:21 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  128   Comments: 0
Stove
Title:  Stove
Description:  Inside Northern Pacific 1318
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:09:20 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,InCab
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
Fusees and Torpedos
Title:  Fusees and Torpedos
Description:  Not the submarine kind! If the train broke down or had to stop unexpectedly, these served as flares to warn oncoming traffic something was stopped on the line up ahead.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:10:37 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  InCab
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Views:  174   Comments: 0
SHRA 1
Title:  SHRA 1
Description:  In Cab shot
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:11:53 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  SHRA 1(45Tonner)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
SHRA 1
Title:  SHRA 1
Description:  In Cab shot. Note that the headlights are controlled by lightswitches exactly like the type you would find in your house!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:13:12 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  SHRA 1(45Tonner)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
SHRA 1
Title:  SHRA 1
Description:  In Cab shot
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 3:13:51 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  InCab
Locomotives:  SHRA 1(45Tonner)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Machine/Blacksmith Shop
Title:  Machine/Blacksmith Shop
Description:  So nice to see snow in March (Oklahoma does not get that!). This is where parts were built or fixed for steam engines and rolling stock.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:24:15 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Winter,Yard
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Views:  110   Comments: 0
Sand Tower #2
Title:  Sand Tower #2
Description:  If you try to get water out of this, you will be disappointed. There used to be another one, but this is the only one left-and one of very few wooden sand towers still in existence.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:26:04 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Winter,Yard
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
The Sand House
Title:  The Sand House
Description:  You have to dry the sand before you can use it. This building is where that took place.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:26:57 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  96   Comments: 0
Car Shops Building
Title:  Car Shops Building
Description:  This housed some of the equipment for working on the cars-however, the actual work was performed outside (obviously, the building is not large enough to fit a coach in).
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:29:07 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
CNW 11009
Title:  CNW 11009
Description:  Unlike its counterpart, this caboose still bears its Chicago & North Western colors-quite splendidly, indeed.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:30:22 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  360   Comments: 0
CNW 162571
Title:  CNW 162571
Description:  Box car built in 1973-by Pullman.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:31:26 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  237   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road Coaches
Title:  Milwaukee Road Coaches
Description:  Built in 1947 for the Olympian Hiawatha
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:32:44 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Passenger
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Views:  419   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road 121
Title:  Milwaukee Road 121
Description:  Dining Car. Seats 48, has a full kitchen, measures 85 feet.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:33:46 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Passenger
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Views:  400   Comments: 0
Baggage/Dormer 1313
Title:  Baggage/Dormer 1313
Description:  Also 85 feet. 36 feet stored baggage; the rest was sleeping space for the crew. Never modified, this coach also served on The City of Portland and The City of Denver.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:35:23 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  133   Comments: 0
Northern Pacific Diner Car #1677
Title:  Northern Pacific Diner Car #1677
Description:  Still awaiting restoration after vagrants lit it on fire in the 1980s, this car was built for the Northern Pacific in 1915.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:38:17 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Passenger
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
Northern Pacific Diner Car #1677
Title:  Northern Pacific Diner Car #1677
Description:  Sold to the Spokane, Portland, & Seattle Railway in 1948, this car was later converted into an instruction car.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:39:40 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Passenger
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Views:  237   Comments: 0
Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Generator Coach 7202
Title:  Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Generator Coach 7202
Description:  Constructed in 1929, this car had a DC generator added to it in 1949. Even with that, it still seats 70 passengers.
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:41:40 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Passenger
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Views:  193   Comments: 0
Sand Tower #2
Title:  Sand Tower #2
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:42:27 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Box Cars
Title:  Box Cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:43:10 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  199   Comments: 0
CNW 160970
Title:  CNW 160970
Description:  Also built by Pullman, this one in 1969
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:44:15 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  228   Comments: 0
Burlington Northern Fruit Express #469
Title:  Burlington Northern Fruit Express #469
Description:  This refrigerator car was built in 1957 and is way overdue for a new coat of paint!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:45:27 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  154   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road 1313
Title:  Milwaukee Road 1313
Description:  Contains four crew sleeping compartments, plus a tiny office for the conductor
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:47:04 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Passenger
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Views:  357   Comments: 0
BNFE 469
Title:  BNFE 469
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:48:17 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  131   Comments: 0
Final View of the Milwaukee Railroad Shops
Title:  Final View of the Milwaukee Railroad Shops
Description:  Snow always makes pictures look nicer. Thanks for viewing!
Photo Date:  3/14/2017  Upload Date: 9/8/2017 2:49:16 PM
Location:  Sioux City, IA
Author:  Matthew Zisi
Categories:  Winter,Yard
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Views:  359   Comments: 0

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