After unloading passengers at Franklin Park, CP 2816 heads back to Bensenville Yard to prepare for tomorrow's journey.

CP 2816 storms past Tower B17 at 50mph.....

CP 4816 accelerates up to track speed just south of Sturtevant, WI.

Entering Bensenville yard limits, the CP 2816 was moving at about 10mph, allowing for almost perfect timing with an American Airlines MD83 on final to O'Hare.

CP 2816 and IHB 4011 touch couplers almost perfectly in line with the double yellow lines at the overhyped Grand Avenue underpass 'Grand' opening. Look close and you'll see a good portion of the C... (more)

In what could amount to the most over-hyped bridge opening, CP 2816, a marching band and flag team, and the Cub Scouts, along with state representatives and local politicians, all turned out for t... (more)

CP's steam excursion heads towards Sturtevant, WI and its own rails. It's on the UP cutoff around O'Hare.

After being wyed, CP 2816 and insurance GP38-2 are in run 8 screaming westbound toward Bensenville.

The steam special backs out of CUS enroute to old Milw. Rd. Pacific Jct., where the train will by wyed and dead head back west toward Bensenville yard for lay over until the holiday weekend's excu... (more)

The Royal Hudson makes her much awaited appearance in the heart of Chicago, rounding the many curves into the north side of Chicago Union Station.

CP 2816 cruises along the Mississippi River along the former Milwaukee Road at Maple Springs, just east of Lake City, Minn. en route to Milwaukee and Chicago.

CP 2816 backs out of Union Station amidst the glass and steel skyscrapers of Chicago's Loop.

The Royal Hudson gallops through Sturtevant.....of all the trains to run wrong main this was the last one I would've wanted.....a quick switch of lenses and this image was produced.....

Resting overnight in Milwaukee, the Hudson steams into Chicagoland tomorrow.

CP Empress Eastbound In The Fraser Canyon