KCS 2016 on I47
Earlier today, CPKC 181 brought in a rare visitor to Bensenville Yard - KCS 2016, a GP38-2 still painted in Kansas City Southern "Grey Ghost" colors. There can only be a handful of these left!
Later, word got out that the unit was assigned to local job I47, which switches industries in the Schaumburg area on Tuesdays and Thursdays, while it works the Mars and Newlyweds plants on the Elgin / C&M Subs, respectively, on M-W-F.
I decided to spend a couple hours at Tower B-17 hoping to see the unit perform its first duties on this assignment, and sure enough, they came out of the yard with only a caboose, planning to shove back in on another track to retrieve their train. Unfortunately, in the midst of dodging raindrops I forgot to reset my shutter speed so I got a slightly blurred image of the unit shoving back in, but still not a bad way to cap off the night.
KCS 2016 on I47
Earlier today, CPKC 181 brought in a rare visitor to Bensenville Yard - KCS 2016, a GP38-2 still painted in Kansas City Southern "Grey Ghost" colors. There can only be a handful of these left!
Later, word got out that the unit was assigned to local job I47, which switches industries in the Schaumburg area on Tuesdays and Thursdays, while it works the Mars and Newlyweds plants on the Elgin / C&M Subs, respectively, on M-W-F.
I decided to spend a couple hours at Tower B-17 hoping to see the unit perform its first duties on this assignment, and sure enough, they came out of the yard with only a caboose, planning to shove back in on another track to retrieve their train. Unfortunately, in the midst of dodging raindrops I forgot to reset my shutter speed so I got a slightly blurred image of the unit shoving back in, but still not a bad way to cap off the night.