After working 2 industries in Batavia for a few hours on a gorgeous, warm, and sunny winter afternoon, R-CHI452 heads back south to Eola Yard on the BNSF West Chicago Spur. This line is the oldest part of the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, being constructed in 1850 as the Aurora Branch Railroad. It is also the oldest line on BNSF’s system in 2021. The line has had service ever since, but is now considered as a branch line which only has one train that uses it, BNSF R-CHI452 or aka “The West Chicago Local” that runs Monday-Wednesday-Friday to service the industries along the line between Aurora and West Chicago.
Today’s R-CHI452 is seen here heading back south on the branch through North Aurora with a classic leading back south to Eola Yard, which ran in amazing evening sunlight, BNSF 2740, a rebuilt EMD GP39E leading BNSF 3188 (GP50) trailing. 2740 was built in April 1963 as GN GP30 3007. It still wears its classic Burlington Northern paint in 2021 on the BNSF as BNSF 2740.
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