After many many many months of running in darkness all of northwestern Illinois rejoices as M337 now leaves Hawthorne Yard in Cicero anywhere from 3 till late at night......at least there is a cha... (more)
Another UP detour slogs its way towards Clinton....LDS-2 takes the siding...headed for Spaulding....
Yet again....another UP detour pollutes my favorite railroad....literately....
A CP auto train heads south towards Bensenville.....
The daily ICE westbound approaches Adeline.....the cooling towers of the nuclear power plant south of Byron loom in the background....
One of two untouched CNW units leads a detoured MPRCB over the ICE....
Almost like a PRR passenger train....
The Iowa prarie is almost as nice as the 3 heritage engines.....
A severe thunderstorm misses Hammond and passes by to the north as one of the many NS freights on the Chicago Line meets an Amtrak Michigan Corridor train under the PRR Position Light signals at C... (more)
UP 844 starts its 80mph running.....she did 80 mph for about 20-30 miles.....not an ideal chase but neat to watch otherwise....
The start of an 180 mile chase.....summertime has definately hit Nebraska as I'm already begining to sweat and its only 8 AM.....
I enjoyed this photo until I realized there was a red board on the westbound track.....40 seconds after this was taken the "Meet of the Century" happened as 844 met 3 of UP's Heritage units on wes... (more)
UP 844 cools off after doing some 80mph running from Mo. Valley to just outside of Denison....
Possibly what it looks like comming through Verona on a 70mph Z train....
Not something you see everyday....especially on the ol' ATSF mainline.....two Oakways head west towards Galesburg....
