a Trash 9 3 pack smokes it up headed West on the race track.
An SF GE leads a stack train west out of Cicero.
The last P42 in phase 3 runs on the back of 348. ISO 100, 1/45th, F/19
A WC SD45 and an IC SD40-2 head up this M337.
4949 and an SD60M, plus an NS Dash 9 pull hard on a stacker out of Cicero Yard.
4483 leads three other units on a Z train in Riverside.
Brakeman Marc poses on the front step of his lead locomotive.
I get to ride in style back to Downers Grove, with a classic F40 pulling my train.
M-BRCGAL leaves Cicero...*cough cough* with 7 engines, no duplicates; 5 paint schemes, 36 powered axles, and only 6 cabs. The middle locomotive is a tiny GP9B, one of only 3.
BNSF 8718 and a GP60B head east to Chicago.
WC 3024 & IC 3140 head to the IHB after passing the connection to the Forest Park Branch.
METX shoves his trainset East past this heap of scrap metal, once an operational CB&Q signal bridge. How the mighty have fallen.
IC 1031 pulls hard out of Hawthorne Yd. with a track warrant good from MP. 16 to Munger on the single track.
BNSF 4401 leads a former ATSF SD75M on an empty coal drag. Not the typical coal power on the Chicago Sub.
AMTK 90219 brings the mini Zephyr East, of course, the power for the train is the only Phase III P42 remaining.