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I didn't think I was going to be able to grab a shot of a FreightLiner engine today as there was a passenger train in platform 4 and another on the sidings... and then one pulled in!
Metra Commuter Rail, Entering Dee Road station in Park Ridge, IL.
EMD F40PH-2,
Engine 107 F40PH, City of Oak Forest
Freightliners 66589 & 66520 waiting for a slot to Felixstowe. 321318 hanging around in the sidings and, way in the distance, the 9:58 heading to Peterborough.
"On May 26, 1934, the Zephyr broke all long-distance, non-stop World's Records for railroad trains when it ran 1015 miles from Denver, Colo. to Chicago in 785 minutes to signalize the reopenging of A Century of Progress Exposition...Its average speed on the spectacular dawn-to-dusk flight was 77.6 miles an hour...its top speed 112.5 miles an hour."