With a pair of new Tier 4 units riding on point, 281 leans into the curve heading westbound under the UP's Milwaukee Sub while they accelerate out of Milwaukee.
The autorack express has a couple of foreigners at the helm today as they crawl west at 10 mph on the CP's Watertown Sub through the Menomonee River Valley.
Hotshot 281 departs Bensenville Yard with KCSM 4571 doing the honors. Here, the train passes under the classic Milwaukee Road signal bridge at Edgington.