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CRL 5100 is in charge of an OSSX GP7 and an NREX GP50 in this scene in South Chicago. The locos will shove back and switch out the BRC Yard.

Chicago Rail Link 5100 backs past the IAIS yard and the CBBI motors which just tied down. The 5000 is an ex CNW motor I was told this is a rare daytime move.

The Chicago Rail Link makes its way through the forest, just east of Oakdale Junction. A trio of their fun EMD's have this lengthy train well in hand.

The CRL's newest unit, an ex-CNW GP50 along with an ex-Hudson Bay Railway GP35 depart Burr Oak Yard on its way to the Metra Rock Island District to switch out lumber industries

The Chicago Rail Link returns from Burr Oak Yard back to South Chicago, wobbling down the back alleys of South Chicago's Oakdale neighborhood.

All is quite at the CRL Irondale Shops on this cold winter day.

A brand new recruit to the Chicago Rail Link #5100 switches out Burr Oak Yard with veteran GP35 #2501. #5100 is an ex-CNW GP50 complete with a nose bell and Prime-920 airhorn and looks very sha... (more)

Rail Links "road freight" crosses Halsted Street on the approach to Gresham Interlocking. The train will then get on the Metra Rock Island District and will go to Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island.

Making its move from South Chicago to Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island, the CRL opens it up on the 'mainline' of Metra's Mighty Rock Island District. The depot framed in the shot has been derelict for... (more)

Just about all of CRL's power is seen here, laying over on a Sunday afternoon. Lots of leased and borrowed power made up of Omnitrax junkers and a neat old Central Kansas Railway GP9 can be seen.

This Sunday morning job gets ready to work the yard and head back to Irondale Yard.

CRL 15 and CKRY 903 back into their Blue Island yard, between Metra's BI yard and IAIS's Burr Oak's yard and past BI Tower with one box.

Central Kansas 903 leads a CRL train past the Metra Electric Station

Central Kansas 903 with LLPX 177 and CRL 15 ease up to the Metra station as they switch the industry along Metra's Blue Island Yard...