Saturday, September 1, 2018

Schmidt - Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern




Ready to leave from Des Moines    1/31/48

Terminus at Fort Dodge, Ia    1/31/48

My car approaching Ft. Dodge from the south   1/31/48
At Des Moines    7/48
#74 South bound at High Bridge  approx. 6 miles north of Boone, Ia.   8/49
#203 switching at Des Moines    3/50


r - ex-Oregon Electric
l - switcher
At Des Moines    3/50
On the right is #361, built by Oregon Electric in 1942 as #61 and sold to the FDDM&S in 1947.  Identical unit #51 was sold to the North Shore and became #459.

At Des Moines     3/50
#111 was the first of five GE steeplecabs built for the FDDM&S in 1911.  

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