Doing a track speed of 60 mph, 5259 blows through the small town of Maple Park, IL on it's way to Rochelle's Global 3 yard.
UP 4284 east sits at Maple Park in the late evening light waiting to continue to UP's Proviso Yard ont he outskirts of Chicago.
CNW 8701 west rolls through Maple Park, accompanied by UP 3043 and UP 3300 (United Way).
The dynamic duo heads east thru Meredith.
Three locomotives that began their lives as C&NW 8500 series C40-8s find themselves working in a matched group, inbound toward Chicago on a sunny morning.
On the crawl east, stuck in stop & go traffic.
While out chasing the last C&NWs, the most unexpected meet ever took place. MCBPR-17 with the last C&NWs and a patched C&NW SD40-2, meet counterpart MPRCB-18 led by UP Olympic Torch unit 2001, Un... (more)
UP 9089 (ex cnw 8577) still in green and yellow, leads a manifest past the Elburn Co-op
UP 3091 leads an intermodal train towards Global 3.
