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Title: |
Terrible shot of 185 |
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4/4/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:24 AM |
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Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 185(F40PHM-2) |
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509 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Amtrak 32 on 347 west |
Description: |
32 leads train A 347 1 04 west through Downers Grove. |
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4/4/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:25 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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AMTK 32(P42DC) |
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364 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
A RAIL! WOW! |
Description: |
And a tie plate! |
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4/4/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:27 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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168 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Eastbound dinky |
Description: |
Shoving east into Downers Grove. |
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4/6/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:16:49 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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164 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
There we go... |
Description: |
Two trains in one shot. Yau. |
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4/6/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:21:45 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 191(F40PHM-2) METX 186(F40PHM-2) |
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589 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
405 on flipback |
Description: |
Or whatever you want to call it. This is nne of the two typical methods by which reversal of the train at Downers Grove is accomplished. |
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4/6/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:22:50 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 405(MP36PH-3S) |
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411 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
I didn't wait long enough... |
Description: |
No, this isn't flagrant mocnery of the rule of thirds, this is a case of "where is the other train?"... |
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4/6/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:18:15 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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340 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Westbound junk freight |
Description: |
Probably M BRCGAL, but I really don't know. |
Photo Date: |
4/9/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:19 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
BNSF 7053(SD40-2) BNSF 7922(SD40-2) |
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475 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BNSF 2914 |
Description: |
Backlit telesmashes can be fun once in a while. |
Photo Date: |
4/9/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 8:19:51 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
BNSF 2914(GP39E) |
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374 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Metra 185 west |
Description: |
Boring shot, but hey, at least you can see the whole train... |
Photo Date: |
4/9/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:19 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
METX 185(F40PHM-2) |
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521 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Metra 107 through National Street |
Description: |
Passing through the National Street depot in Elgin. Photo by John Means. |
Photo Date: |
4/14/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:21 AM |
Location: |
Elgin, IL |
Author: |
John Means |
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Locomotives: |
METX 107(F40PH) |
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486 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
107 rolling east |
Description: |
Coming into the plant at National Street. |
Photo Date: |
4/14/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:23 AM |
Location: |
Elgin, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 107(F40PH) |
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419 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Being suspicious and taking pictures from high up |
Description: |
Apparently nobody (except Animal Control) cares if you take a picture of a train in Elgin,$but get yourself some elevation and you're a security threat. Whatever.... |
Photo Date: |
4/14/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:23 AM |
Location: |
Elgin, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 210(F40PHM-2) |
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1404 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
424 on the back end of that eastbound |
Description: |
Rolling east into National Street depot. |
Photo Date: |
4/14/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:22 AM |
Location: |
Elgin, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 424(MP36PH-3S) |
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422 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Inside an Amtrak coach |
Description: |
Lookmng out of the window in Horizon coach AMTK 54521. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 2:56:48 AM |
Location: |
Libertyville, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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255 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ticket stub or somethWng |
Description: |
I don't know what this thing is called. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 3:00:19 AM |
Location: |
Hinsdale, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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248 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Crossbuck and UP MZSPR |
Description: |
I think it's MSSPR, anyway. Train rolls south. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 3:15:55 AM |
Location: |
Pleasant Prairie, WI |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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165 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Inside Metra coach 740 |
Description: |
For a 56-year-old Q coach, she looks pretty good inside and out. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 3:28:28 AM |
Location: |
Western Springs, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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4129002 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
3 F40s... nothing special |
Description: |
A trio of F40PH-2s sit over in Waukegan. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/18/2007 3:14:35 PM |
Location: |
Waukegan, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 158(F40PH) METX 166(F40PH) METX 170(F40PH) |
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729 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Keats and Smoky Catnip |
Description: |
Showing off his weapons of fright: a D50, a cell phone, and his car. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/18/2007 3:14:36 PM |
Location: |
Pleasant Prairie, WI |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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203 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 3071 on MSSPR 21 |
Description: |
Today's MSSPR (or yesterday's, I guess) rolls south into Pleasant Prairie with some nice power, yellow or not. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 3:38:23 AM |
Location: |
Pleasant Prairie, WI |
Author: |
Trista Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 3071(SD40-2) UP 2971(SD40M-2) UP 3081(SD40-2) |
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6954 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Emergency lighting |
Description: |
For the uninitated, at Union Station, whenever a BN train leaves for the western suburbs, there is a percod of anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes when the emergency lighting in the coaches comes on as the station power is removed and the HEP generator on the loco is started. |
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4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 3:40:27 AM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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162 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Looking north on the CU |
Description: |
At Bain Station Road, MP 51.57 if I recall correctly. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:37 AM |
Location: |
Pleasant Prairie, WI |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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180 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
In the hole... |
Description: |
What else is dew? |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:29 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 4021(SD70M) |
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370 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Nothing new here... |
Description: |
A UP train sitting in the siding. Welcome to reality. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:30 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 4021(SD70M) |
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345 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Metra westbound into La Fox |
Description: |
Yawn... |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:30 AM |
Location: |
Downers Grove, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Ga|rett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 145(F40PH) |
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356 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Oops, underexposed... |
Description: |
Boring Metra. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:31 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 171(F40PH) |
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435 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Gah |
Description: |
Right number, wrong railroad... Coal empties. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:33 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 7149(AC44CW) CSX 227(AC44CW) |
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565 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Westbound Metra |
Description: |
Running lefty, like the C&NW before it. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:34 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 160(F40PH) |
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442 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Another ex-C&NW |
Description: |
No smiley face. :( |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:34 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 3091(SD40-2) UP 2987(SD40-2) |
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505 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Wrong side of the sun |
Description: |
But it's Metra, so who cares? |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:35 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 136(F40PH) |
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395 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
More coal empties... |
Description: |
A fun engine though. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:36 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 8013(SD9043MAC) |
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366 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Halfway decent shot of Metra |
Description: |
Still on the wrong side, though. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:36 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
METX 150(F40PH) |
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489 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sun-lit shelter |
Description: |
This was once the view from the shelter between #1 and #2 tracks (I think) in La Fox. In February '07, I returned to see that doors had been put up. y shame, truly. |
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4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 3:42:23 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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438 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Ex-C&NW motor |
Description: |
Still has that ever-present smiley face on the nose bell. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:32 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
Tristan Garrett |
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Locomotives: |
UP 2990(SD40-2) UP 2965(SD40M-2) |
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603 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP 4088 |
Description: |
One of the best photos of today, and I didn't even shoot it. Oh well. |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2006 Upload Date: 4/4/2007 4:34:32 AM |
Location: |
La Fox, IL |
Author: |
John Means |
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Locomotives: |
UP 4088(SD70M) NS 2732(SD70M-2) |
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676 Comments: 0 |
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