IAIS 481 in ICG paint leads IAIS 303 in PNC paint, LLPX 2039 in Chessie paint, IAIS 403, IAIS 603, LLPX 2040 in Chessie paint, & IAIS 484. Nothing like seeing this lashup in the year 2004.
CN 6104 sits while it builds air after switching out the small interchange yard with NS.
IC 6113 slows to switch out the small interchange yard with NS.
BNSF 8738 pulls a manifest off the CN/IC running wrong main past Joliet Union Station.
IC 6060 slows for some crossovers heading toward IHB's Norpaul Yard.
Soo Line 4512 still wears the old MILW paint scheme.
METX 611 pauses at the Franklin Park Metra Station to unload it's passengers.
Even though this SOO caboose is rusted really bad, it's still nice to see on the end of a train in the year 2004.
Soo Line 4512 pulls a intermodal train to the IHB.
Walking past the IC E's I see a cool angle of IC 100.
Walking out of the cab on NS 5259 (a GP38-2 in CR paint), I see a cool photo opt. of IHB 1509.
As the sun sets the line of equipment pulls into CP's Bensenville Yard.
Franklin Park Railroad Daze, an annual event every year. Going from left to right: METX 8546 & 417, CP 9109, SOO 90, IC 100, 101 & 2 passenger cars, VMR 307, UP 5075, BRC 585, 564B, & 564, CSXT 26... (more)
ICE 6446 speeds toward the setting sun.
SOO 4514, the only Soo Line GP38-2 in candy apple red with a blank nose heads to the IHB.