| BN NW2 557 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 557 was built in February 1949 as CB&Q TR2B 9405B (c/n 6572), returned to EMD in 1954 for a cab (becoming CB&Q NW2 9405B), became BN NW2 557 sometime after the March 2, 1970 merger. In the BN numbering scheme, the former TR2A's were given even numbers, the former TR2B's were given odd numbers. |