Right when the world started to take a major hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, NS 61F (CN S751) hops off the BRC and heads down the CP Elgin Sub for the CN at Schiller Park with BCOL 4617 leading.
The NS 61F, hauling empty frac sand cars, heads west over the Vermilion River with the Canadian Pacific Heritage unit 7010 trailing.
A BC Rail barn leads the way west on NS 61F, shortly after exiting the BRC at Cragin. The train will continue down the CP to B12, where it'll hop onto the CN Waukesha Sub.
16 years after the beginning of the lease, BC Rail is still going strong... After a long wait for a crew on the BRC, BCOL #4617 roars through River Grove, IL on the CP Elgin sub in perfect ligh... (more)
BCOL 4617 leads a sand train west out of the city, about to pass the Hanson Park station.
NS 61F rolls west at the MP 328 signals with SD70ACE 1163 going Long Hood Forward. The engine would be spun at CP Home. A lease C40-8W in CSX paint and 2 BNSF units are trailing.
An NS SD70ACe leads the way west approaching CP 194 on the Chicago Line
