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A very knowledgeable rail fan - Nathan Herring - is in position for a passing train at Canyon Texas.
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Railroad Historian Mr. Skip Gatermann- with backwords hat - has a perch with others as we wait for the IAIS QJ to depart Atlantic Iowa.
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Several members of the Museum volunteer Staff have green vests on and are mixed in with the crowd as the opening ceremony is in progress.
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During the horn blowing ceremony the CN 6789 blows its horn and smokes out the scene , everybody laughed ! - the CN is to the side , the unit fogged out is the SOO 2500.
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The WGRF group gathers around Mr. Rich Diffley of the Lange-Stegmann Co. St Louis Missouri
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On the first outing of the St Louis meet, the WGRF members talk it over at the St Louis Union Station .
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Yes, its the Wagon Master himself, Chicago Terminal Company Photographer Mark Llanza is observing the down town action.
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A short photo line is catching the Respondek 8301 in great light at Granite City Illinois.
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The WGRF members examine a couple of locomotives at the Lange-Stegmann complex, St Louis Missouri.
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At Lange-Stegmann , St Louis Missouri , hoppers are loaded from a barge on the Mississippi River,.
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A rare event, we are inside the Alton & Southern Yard in East St Louis Illinois with the WGRF group , 10-3-2014