In ultra low light, a warbonnet GP60M leads a whole mess of four axle power on a westbound stack train bound for Seattle. Thank you Mr. Metra for teaching me the ways of low light photography.
WC 3024 idles through this evening shower. Apparently the crew last night didn't quite make it back to Hawthorne and left this beauty crewless for a day.
A pair of CN "hockey stripes" leads 357 over the BNSF Chicago Sub.
BNSF 1529 prepares westbound stack trains on the east end of Clyde yard.
R953's power clears enough room behind him for 337's power to pull through the cross-overs and retreive their train on main 3.
After using 3 main for head room, IC 6057 shoves back through the crossovers and clears up in the yard.
337 pulls out of the East end of Hawthorne to drop 20 cars on yard track 9.
A pair of black and white GP38's switch Hawthorne prepairing a massive cut of cars for 337's pick-up.
Five hours after departing Cicero light power, BRCGAL finally departs Eola with 7700+ ft of train. Man did that crew put on a show, 5 units in run 8 and a perfectly tuned Leslie S3L.
One of five untouched IC 6200 series SD40-2's leads a "IC" Dash 9 on the Champaign to Waterloo merchandise train.
A trio of orange high tail it out of Aurora, with a train good for more then track speed.
MS 9228 leads 3 brothers: an SD70M-2, an SD40-2, and an SD60 East toward the NS interchange in Chicago.
BNSF 4210 trails BNSF 8608, FXE 3100, 3121, and BNSF 731 on a light power move to Eola to retrieve their manifest.
BNSF 2943 awaits his line-up for head room out the East end of Clyde Yard.
A wide nose SD40-2 leads one of few GTW SD40-2's westbound out of Hawthorne.
