NS conductor, Jerome Marcum isn't as thrilled to see the CR C39-8 as I was. He was a good sport and smiled anyway.
One of only a handful left, former Conrail C39-8 8200 awaits a line-up at C.P. 71st. St. to continue west, than east onto BNSF's Chicago for a trip into Cicero with NS's Landers Job.
A "non-Quality" Conrail C39-8 is solo blast power on this stack train heading north on the IHB. What a treat indeed!!
A vintage can opener idles away in the crisp morning sun light as a BNSF yard job pulls past for headroom.
"Hellfire" westbound on the ex-NYC mainline!
Venerable C39-8 8200 heads up Saturday's 115 crossing Illinois Rte 159 in Belleville, IL