In the early 1990’s, Southern Pacific finally made it to Chicago by acquiring the bankrupt Chicago, Missouri and Western’s St. Louis to Chicago line and through trackage rights via BN. To advertise SP’s entrance to railroading’s Midwestern mecca, the railroad set up a publicity shot at Amtrak’s 18th Street Yard in downtown on July 17, 1992. They provided a new GP60, and wanted images that said “SP and Chicago.” Earlier in May 1992, SP also had a display train (also with new GP60s) at the same location to promote the new service.
