Keeping her warm at 4:00am. Never knew how much I disliked sodium vapor lighting. 4 sec @ f5.6
Not normally together, the BN3 is coupled to BN2. BN1 has the current assignment of pulling the coach train.
Milwaukee Road unbandited... too bad the white letters don't wear off as easy as the black patch job did.
A NICTD trainset nears Randolph St. station.... CNA plaza in the background.
United Way power leads south to Proviso.
One marker light short of being a full / complete CPL signal.
Milwaukee District North train 2140 cleared the mainline at Fox Lake for the daylight move of WSOR's T001X. Here the WAMX 4171 leads it's train past the METX 405 at the Fox Lake depot.
The weekend layovers on the left, a local holding short of the station on the right...
The second leg of the excursion gets underway as the Zephyr departs Galesburg.
Business as usual for this Hiawatha service train as it rolls through the farm fields of Kenosha county.
Making a station stop at North Judson, rather lonely it seems.
Waiting in the deadline for disposition...
The steam special returning westbound as seen from 450' up on an outlook in the John Latsch state park.
This ex-UP switcher still lives on in middle Illinois. She was last painted at NLR in July of 1991, not so bad for almost 20 years worth of weathering.
Larry & crew pose for a "team picture" as today was CP's last run of the "Division Street switcher". A new RR starts w/ the new year.