IHB 4022 crawls around 5mph as it shoves the pulldown/Yard hump back into Blue Island Yard, blocking other road freights and hogging the mainline from continuing their journey.
After the yard pulldown blocked up CP Harvey, BP2 finally departs Blue Island Yard after being held for over an hour. Here they are at Seeley Ave/CP Harvey with IHB 4017 and 2163 in charge.
The end of NRE Dixmoor is here. The last 4 locomotives to leave NRE In Dixmoor sit outside NRE on a cold January night, 2 former BN SD60M’s and 2 CSX GP39’s.
Fresh from the paint booth, new power for the Marinette, Tomahawk, & Western is moved around the National Railway Equipment facility in Dixmoor. Tom Golden photo.