Eola has some nice a nice switcher today! A BN green GP10 teams up with GP38-2 2278 to handle yard operations. Here, the 5,000 combined horsepower pulls 106 cars out, then back into the yard!
The station stop at Western Springs doesn't actually stop at the station because the new one is not completed yet!
402 "State of Illinois" speeds through Belmont Curve.
A good-looking Heritage 1 Dash 9 is the sole power for this red Hyundai doublestacker.
With a UP Dash 8 and a very rare CP AC4400CW with the Steerable trucks.
This long, white trailer train is headed up by two BNSF Dash 9s, the second with an American flag attached to the vertical section of handrail behind the A/C box. And AC6000CW CSXT 653.
The first F40PHM-2 accelerates out of the station onto Clarendon Hills.
Peace, man! CSX power leads an ex-BN GP39E on a heavily-flatspotted manifest west, making discussion with the Amtrak engineer running the train pulling in behind me very difficult.
BNSF 1063, the rear H1 unit, coughs a little more than the other Dash 9s as they throttle up at MP15 - the start of a test mile. They pass construction workers that are building a pedestrian under... (more)
Unpatched, 3-window BN SD60M teams up with an MRL SD45 on a short mixed freight running wrong main. Nice!
5720 whooshes by the Metra stopped at the station.
A pair of Geeps today on the local, heading east across the DuPage River to drop off their hopper at Pepperidge Farm in Downers Grove.
Warbonnet Dash 8 leads a westbound mixed train. The second unit is NREX 258, an ex-QNS&L SD40-2 with the extra-large fuel tanks.
145 and 154 pull the CZ west past a patch of flowers.
183 is back on the lead of a train. It had spent a while behind an MP36 on a doubleheader.
