BNSF 661 rescued Amtrak Train 382 and brought it all the way into Union Station.
The Southwest Chief backs in from Amtrak's prep yard to Union Station.
A replacement for the BNSF switcher that usually works the Metra yards. A bit of a crummy retirement role for a locomotive built to run high-priority freight between Seattle and Chicago.
Backing in for the early afternoon job.
At Sunrise METX 116 heads for Orland Park after dropping off its passengers at Union Station, as another dinky heads west for the BNSF Race Track, an inbound for the station gets a yellow signal.
Two inbound on the right, two coachyard-bound on the left.
Passenger locomotives from 3 builders: MPI MP36's file through the wash on the left. An EMD F40PH pushes into Union Station. And a pair of GE P42DCs shuttle around to connect to a train.
Two inbound trains approach CUS side by side, while another heads through the washers and toward the Metra Yard.
Metra 201 shoves slowly into Chicago Union Station, while 113 pairs up with a F40PHM-2 headed south, on Metra's Southwest Service out to Orland Park.
The WSOR passenger special sits on Track 3 of the north concourse at 6:30AM, while its passengers board.
The WSOR passenger special departs Union Station at 7:09 AM, heading north to Janesville. RP member Mike Wnek is onboard.
Metra 187 is not done for the day, heading back to the western suburbs with a off-rush-hour dinky. Metra 194 is done, pulling through the wash racks, and then off to the coach yard.
