| Posted by sd70railfan on March 14, 2007 | |
Remarkable shot! Three trains in one shot! Geart Timing.
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Lucky with the timing on that one ! Nice shot.
John
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Very nice shot and catch!
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Nice to see everything come togther! Great shot Joel!
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Excellent timing. Nice shot.
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Great, great in my opinion. I am a railfriend from Germany and visited Chicago for several times. I never saw such a remarkable shot.
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Yes Joel, remarkable shot indeed!!!!
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So Joel, where are you standing? I want to stand there. The tracks cutting the bottom right corner of the picture are the ex-PRR leads to Union Station and form the east side of the wye. GM&O trains came in this way too. Through the bridge can be seen the Metra galley cars waiting for the evening rush in what was the CB&Q Coach Yards. The train on the bridge is on what was called the St. Charles Air Line and was how the IC/Amtrak trains made it to Union Station in the early Amtrak years using the wye to get their direction right. The ex-CB&Q main tracks from the west (left) are nearly impossible to see with all the junk in the wye but duck the Air Line near the left of the picture and can just be seen through the last full bent from the left. They are the north leg of the wye. The closer train looks like a unit train of Power River Basin Coal. It is on the south leg of the wye. This wye was where the Zephyrs, Empire Builder, and North Coast Limited were turned. At the west end of the wye was the Q's Union Avenue Tower and beyond it the Zephyr Wash Rack used every day by many intercity trains (unless it was below freezing). BTW there are only two "active" trains in this great shot.
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Very nice photo Joel! Awesome complexion!
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