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Chicago & Northwestern Railway Photos Page 3
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Creston,
IL
Map only |
Twenty minutes after that, another
EB freight comes through with two Dash-9 units.
See Rochelle, IL Railfan Info Page Railfan Info Page for railfan info on this line. |
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Creston,
IL
Map only |
The CNW was good that day.
Shortly after the three eastbounds, a WB freight shows up.
See Rochelle, IL Railfan Info Page Railfan Info Page for railfan info on this line. |
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Malta,
IL
Map only |
Then we moved
to Malta to catch a WB empty unit coal train 25 minutes later as the sun
broke upon the clean lead Dash-9 unit. See Rochelle, IL Railfan Info Page Railfan Info Page for railfan info on this line. |
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Rochelle, IL | EB freight crossing BN diamonds. Grassy area in front is now occupied by the Railfan Park gazebo. |
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1994 |
just west of Rochelle, IL | WB freight passing large grain elevator company. Just caught this one as you see another railfan was already there. |
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1994 |
Rochelle, IL | EB freight (with coil cars) crossing the BN diamonds. |
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1993 |
Des Plaines, IL | Caught this WB freight unexpectedly on the New Line crossing Mt. Prospect Rd. as I was heading out to railfan. |
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1993 |
Des Plaines, IL | Close-up shot of lead units. The engineer was not thrilled of our location and let us know as he passed. |
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1993 |
Des Plaines, IL | PRJA freight on the other end of the cutoff at Seeger where it merges in with CNW's Northwest Line. Northwest Hwy (US 14) is just to the left of the of the NW Line tracks on the left side of the picture. US 14 (Northwest Hwy.) parallels the NW Line through all of Chicago's NW suburbs. Mostly sees Metra traffic (approx. 62 Metra trains/weekday). |
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1993 |
North Lake, IL | EB entering North Proviso Yard. |
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