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CN 2437 @ Robbins, IL
Three years ago today, an ethanol train from the NS got delivered to the IAIS with a trio of CN units, the lash up consisting of a C40-8M, C40-8W and SD75I, the first two units are no longer active on the Canadian National roster. With no IAIS power being handy in Burr Oak Yard, the CN power was chosen for the Harbor delivery, completely surprising me when I showed up and found a cloud of smoke from the Barn as they were departing.
After shoving out of Burr Oak Yard, North American painted CN 2437 is at the helm of IAIS BIRDSW2 for Indiana Harbor Belt’s Blue Island Yard, as it ducks under the Rock Island cantilever at CP Robbins, later getting off the Metra Rock District and onto the adjacent Track 9 to the Indiana Harbor Belt at CP 154. This is by far one of my favorite catches from Chicagoland, as this was far from the land of PTC on Metra and only one more year until CN perged all the barns to Canada, storage, or the scrap yard. A Cowl leading on the Rock is something I can say that will never happen again…. Taken: 5-20-19
It’s now 2022, the barns are gone, most of the C40s are gone, Metra is PTC only..BUT the Rock Island signals are still standing strong today outside of everything.
CN 2437 @ Robbins, IL
Three years ago today, an ethanol train from the NS got delivered to the IAIS with a trio of CN units, the lash up consisting of a C40-8M, C40-8W and SD75I, the first two units are no longer active on the Canadian National roster. With no IAIS power being handy in Burr Oak Yard, the CN power was chosen for the Harbor delivery, completely surprising me when I showed up and found a cloud of smoke from the Barn as they were departing.
After shoving out of Burr Oak Yard, North American painted CN 2437 is at the helm of IAIS BIRDSW2 for Indiana Harbor Belt’s Blue Island Yard, as it ducks under the Rock Island cantilever at CP Robbins, later getting off the Metra Rock District and onto the adjacent Track 9 to the Indiana Harbor Belt at CP 154. This is by far one of my favorite catches from Chicagoland, as this was far from the land of PTC on Metra and only one more year until CN perged all the barns to Canada, storage, or the scrap yard. A Cowl leading on the Rock is something I can say that will never happen again…. Taken: 5-20-19
It’s now 2022, the barns are gone, most of the C40s are gone, Metra is PTC only..BUT the Rock Island signals are still standing strong today outside of everything.