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Owner: Elgin Joliet and Eastern
Model:BLW DT66-2000Built As:EJE 112 (DT66-2000)
Serial Number:73720Order No:
Frame Number:Built:5/1948
Notes:blt 5/48, ex-112, sold 3/75
Other locos with this serial:  EJE 912(DT66-2000)
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EJ&E Baldwin DT6-6-2000 #912
Title:  EJ&E Baldwin DT6-6-2000 #912
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Photo Date:  8/23/1964  Upload Date: 4/15/2008 10:57:53 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
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Locomotives:  EJE 912(DT66-2000)
Views:  1219   Comments: 0
EJ&E DT-6-6-2000 912
Title:  EJ&E DT-6-6-2000 912
Description:  EJ&E Baldwin DT-6-6-2000 912 crossing the C&NW at Tower JB in West Chicago, Illinois, on January 26, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Although I was 18 years old when I shot this photo, this was the location of my first employment as a paperboy when I was seven. This is where my paper route began. One thing for sure, there was a lot of noise when the EJ&E crossed the C&NW, especially with short wheelbase freight cars. I talked to Bob Fox, a guy I know who worked in that tower. He did not have fond memories of his experience in that tower.

Apparently, all was quiet in the tower one very early morning (about 2:00 AM or so) when the buzzer sounded and an EJ&E transfer run asked for permission to cross. Bob didn't see any C&NW trains asking for permission, so he allowed the EJ&E train to cross. Even in the best of conditions, the EJ&E train, which at this point was in Service Brake application, would have taken some time to get up to speed, maybe 10 mph, to cross the C&NW. According to Bob, as soon as the EJ&E train occupied the circuit, the buzzer went off again; a C&NW train asking for permission to cross. Then another. Before he knew what happened another C&NW train was asking for permission, and Bob was tieing up three C&NW trains, and the EJ&E train hadn't even hit the diamonds. Bob had to answer to both the EJ&E and C&NW dispatchers. He quit the railroad business a couple of weeks later.

Photo Date:  1/26/1966  Upload Date: 1/13/2012 1:57:18 PM
Location:  West Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  EJE 912(DT66-2000)
Views:  926   Comments: 0
EJ&E 652, 915, 912
Title:  EJ&E 652, 915, 912
Description:  Leaving
Photo Date:  10/15/1972  Upload Date: 1/21/2011 10:49:42 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EJE 912(DT66-2000)
Views:  604   Comments: 2
EJ&E 912
Title:  EJ&E 912
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/15/1972  Upload Date: 4/27/2012 11:52:25 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  EJE 912(DT66-2000)
Views:  514   Comments: 3
EJ&E 912
Title:  EJ&E 912
Description:  EJ&E repowered Baldwin centercabs 919 and 912 head east through Griffith with a coal train. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/23/2009 4:58:00 PM
Location:  Griffith, IN
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  EJE 912(DT66-2000) EJE 919(DT66-2000)
Views:  1340   Comments: 0


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