Though it may not look like it, the lead unit is actually the only former ATSF motor here as a short manifest rolls southward into the setting sun on a blustery first day of 2012.
Looking good in her Santa Fe dress, a renumbered SD75M leads Q380 east through Deshler. The DTC Block signs along the Toledo Sub have since been removed, eliminating another piece of B&O history.
The Fond Du Lac, WI, to Fulton, KY, manifest train rolls thru Kensington on the south side of Chicago. This is where the Chicago South Shore cutoff off the Metra's Eletric Line and crosses CN trac... (more)