CP 182 seems to be the "go to" train lately. On a beautiful, fall morning, it arrives at Bensenville with quite the delightful lash-up.
Metra #116 speeds past Manheim Station at Bensenville.
The conductor rides the shove east, headed to the UP bridge about a mile ahead. This is a CP move and here we have NS and CSX power.
The Loram rail grinder sits at the intersection of York and Irving Park Road, in Bensenville.
The old and the new. CP 3018 heads out of the yard with a switch job.
Light NS power heads east through Bensenville, with an NS SD70 leading the way.
A Loram rail grinder makes its way south on CP's C&M Sub, approaching Tower B-17 and Bensenville Yard.
CP 272 (Savanna to Bensenville) approaches Bensenville Yard, with a pair of ICE SD40-2's, an NREX SD40-2 and a SOO "Bandit" (Ex-MILW) GP40.
Priority train 182 arrives at Bensenville, with a pair of candy apple red, SOO SD60's, the leader being an "M." Here, they are splitting the old Milwaukee Road searchlights.
276 waits at Irving Park Road with quite the colorful consist.
A pair of CP ES44AC's lead 282 into Bensenville.
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A loaded ethanol train holds at Irving Park Road while a CP stack train takes off northbound.