Westbound manifest departs Eola lead by a BNSF B40-8 standard cab and a wide cab B40-8W.
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.
A trio of orange high tail it out of Aurora, with a train good for more then track speed.
Santa Fe bluebonnet SD40-2 6740, BN GP28M 1512, and a BN GP28M wait to depart Eola as Metra F40PHM-2 193 passes with a inbound.
Metra 191 waits to shove the 8:20 train into downtown to finish up a busy May Day
Metra 181 gets ready to leave the station for Hill Yard at the end of the day
This sweet Bluebonnet B23-7 pulls out of the yard with a Bluebonnet GP35 in tow.
BNSF 4516 approaches McClure Road with Z-CHCPTL.
An ex-BN SD40-2 leads a UP counterpart over a country crossing at the far west end of Aurora.
A pair of BNSF's ex-ATSF B40-8s lead the train to St Paul on a beautiful morning in Chicagoland.
After hearing several blasts of the K3 airhorn, this GP came out from behind a building and began its trip back to Eola Yard.
As the sun sets, a stack train bound for Seattle crosses a picturesque little creek on its way into rural Illinois.
A pair of ATSF units, a GP35 in bluebonnet and a GP30 in heritage 1, rest after collecting a cut for the Illinois Railway's interchange train which would arrive later tonight.
The Frisco meets the AT&SF today in Eola.
A BNSF AC and new GEVo pass the power for todays M-BRCGAL train as they fly west through Eola, ducking the CB&Q searchlights on their way.
