BNSF 7350 prepares to bring drop off a few cars at the other end of the yard.
Four elephant-style Es lead the combined Afternoon Zephyr, North Coast Limited, and Empire Builder. In the summer under the CB&Q it was three trains but it (they) didn't have another summer. Tod... (more)
A faded out warbonnet C41-8W leads an ES44DC and C44-9W on a manifest train being switched out at Eola Yard.
I have no idea what those people down there were doing. The SD7 however was ex-CB&Q 309. The dinkey is inbound just minutes from leaving Aurora has a generator car on the rear.
Fly Over- CN makes good use of it's EJ&E by-pass route through Chicago. M342 jumps over a westbound BNSF Aurora Sub Scoot, at Eola.
Metra 403 leads an outbound to Aurora as 2 BNSF dash 9's switch their train in the yard.
She became BN 3034.
The morning fog has not fully burned off yet.
Early F units usually came in set of 4, i.e., ABBA. The CB&Q found that for most trains on its mostly flat railroad ABA sets were sufficient so the ABBAs were broken into ABs with another newer A ... (more)
Metra 115 leads an outbound commuter to Aurora under the old CB&Q signals at the West end of Eola Yard.
2 AC locomotives lead M-CHCGAL from through Eola to Galesburg Illinois