A Burlington Northern commuter train heads west after a quick stop at Stone Avenue (La Grange), Illinois in August 1983.
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Canadian National train No. 340, led by a Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific “the Peg” SD40, passes through a wintery Steward, Illinois, at 10:21 a.m. on February 13, 1994. CN operated on the BN to Chicago before their merger of Wisconsin Central provided the current routing of this traffic.
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It’s officially Union Pacific, but this westbound unit train of gons still looks its heritage, powered by a quartet of Chicago & North Western locomotives. The train climbs out of the gentle sag between Rochelle and Flagg, Illinois, on the afternoon of February 17, 1996.
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On the first very run of Super Fleet GP60Ms, the Santa Fe QNYLA train speeds through Ransom, Illinois, on May 20, 1990. Only two GP60Ms were delivered by EMD at this point (No. 100 and 101), so FP45s Nos. 96 and 92 were sandwiched by the brand-new machines. The weather may have been dreary, but a Santa Fe warbonnet in fresh paint was a sight to behold!
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With freight train congestion ahead, a slick move by the BNSF dispatcher, at least for the passengers of Amtrak’s train 5, crossed the westbound California Zephyr over to the south track or Main 2, all the way from Montgomery to Galesburg, Illinois, on May 21, 2023. During that time, the Zephyr passed five westbound BNSF freights and met an eastbound BNSF Z train flying toward Chicago, all neatly orchestrated to keep the passenger train from losing time on the busy subdivision. We pass the third westbound at track speed zipping toward Galva as seen from Roomette 9 in the 531 sleeper. And the windows were clean too!
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