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Chicago & Illinois Midland 60 SD18 southbond CWEX coal train Manito, IL 8-4-1993
C&IM SD18s 60 and 61 have just fallen on there faces at Manito, IL on 8-4-93. The Powerton Roadswitcher picked up this CWEX coal train from the BN in North Pekin and is handling it to the Havana Coal Transfer plant on the Illinois River. Unit 61 was experiencing fuel injector problems and is not providing any tractive effort which has burdened lead unit 60 to do all the work. The moment I depressed the shutter button the train stalled. It was doubled up the .88% Manito grade and reassembled at Union siding three miles distant. At this time the Midland didn't move many trains to Havana due to the delivery of western coal to the Koch Carbon Barge terminal on the Des Plaines River. With the loss of nearly 1/3 of its coal traffic and all of its SD38-2s, the C&IM tried to rely on two SDs to handle the workload. However, as I witnessed, an extra SD would have been better suited to move a 110-car 13,000 ton coal train to Havana. Such is the life of the C&IM in the 1990s. Photo by: Ryan Crawford
Chicago & Illinois Midland 60 SD18 southbond CWEX coal train Manito, IL 8-4-1993
C&IM SD18s 60 and 61 have just fallen on there faces at Manito, IL on 8-4-93. The Powerton Roadswitcher picked up this CWEX coal train from the BN in North Pekin and is handling it to the Havana Coal Transfer plant on the Illinois River. Unit 61 was experiencing fuel injector problems and is not providing any tractive effort which has burdened lead unit 60 to do all the work. The moment I depressed the shutter button the train stalled. It was doubled up the .88% Manito grade and reassembled at Union siding three miles distant. At this time the Midland didn't move many trains to Havana due to the delivery of western coal to the Koch Carbon Barge terminal on the Des Plaines River. With the loss of nearly 1/3 of its coal traffic and all of its SD38-2s, the C&IM tried to rely on two SDs to handle the workload. However, as I witnessed, an extra SD would have been better suited to move a 110-car 13,000 ton coal train to Havana. Such is the life of the C&IM in the 1990s. Photo by: Ryan Crawford