On a rare Sunday morning move, CSL 30 switches a little before heading off to LTV Steel with a load of coke for the plant.
On a rare Sunday morning move, CSL 30 pops out of the shops and gets ready for a run toward LTV Steel in Whiting, IN.
NS train 33G has arrived at BNSF's Western Ave yard with an ATSF SD40-2, BNSF GP60B, and BN SD40-2. Very cool.
What has to be one of the rarest consists you could see on the CN has train 453 sitting at a red board. WC 7498 was the first SD45, or engine for that matter, to wear WC paint. It started as 667... (more)
Just after midnight, M338 waits for a minute to have switches lined. Consist was all IC black, 2 SD40-2s and 2 GP38s. Very cool!
One of three remaning SD40-2s in GT paint has been paired with a WC SD45 to create what has to be one of the rarest consists on the CN system.
A very early morning 442 train heads down the old B&OCT. At one time, the Chicago Great Western, Soo Line, B&OCT, and Chicago Aurora & Elgin all crossed right here.
A set of C44-9Ws bring yet another stack train east on the old ATSF.
A veteran Santa Fe SD40 leads a CN SD40-2W and BNSF C44-9W east into Berwyn with a grain train bound for the BRC.
A CSX powered manifest departs BNSF's Cicero Yard as a local Metra train slows for a stop at LaVergne.
CP's Kingsbury Job heads south on Kingsbury Street. Despite the bell and horn, this lady still cut literally right in front of the engine.
CP's Kingsbury Job heads north along Lakewood Avenue. Here it is passing through a small strip mall approaching the Treasure Island grocery store.
As usual, the CP AC44 ruins the rest of the consist. Still, this was the 9th train on the NS (NKP) in 5 hours, which isnt bad at all for that line.
Ok, so actually its CN A453, but with a beautiful consist and day like this, who's to say this wasnt July 18, 1999? Might be my last pair of SD45's, what a finale!
A pair of CSX AC's in charge of a stack train pound across the IHB and NS at State Line.
