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https://www.flickr.com/photos/70374128@ ... NFK-dLYjSH A photo of the sharks has been posted online, they still exist!

Just seen a picture on Canadian Railway Observations, the IC 100 and 101 were both moved into the deadline at Homewood.

McCook has not been accessible for years and probably never will be.

272/273 have been renamed 472/473

UD is supposed to close upon completion of the new Joliet station. In addition to Blue Island Tower closing, the gate tower is also closed, as CSX converted the grade crossing over to a automated one. Tower B-17 is supposedly supposed to close in Bensenville once the project to grade separate Irving...

Plans to look into restoring N&W 611 into service were announced today. The Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA is starting a study to see how much it would cost them to fix up 611 and fire it up again. 611 would likely re-join the NS steam program for the first time since the original ...

G&W isn't neccesarly known to repaint engines in a big hurry. Just go out to Peoria for a example, still plenty of units left in P&PU paint. Heck, they even still have a unit in C&IM paint! Interesting to see that the TP&W is getting some new units too. Peoria is pretty much G&W city now, with the T...

Nice, a ex-CNW SD40-2! That color sure beats the heck out of the yellow mustard bottles on the HESR now! Hope those get sent for G&W paint soon.

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There it is sitting at Barr Yard yesterday.

That unit looks great! I'm hoping to shoot it leading FWCH or CHFW soon!

I shot this unit sitting at Barr Yard today. Looks great in fresh G&W orange. Personally, I think G&W's paint scheme is a nice looking scheme. There's a lot of hate going around about G&W but at least they have a nice looking scheme, especially when it's clean.

G&W sure isn't wasting its time making its presence known on the CF&E, here is the first G&W painted unit on the property, a SD40T-2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fan-t/8428 ... cferailway

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fan-t/8428 ... cferailway There's the aforementioned CF&E SD40T-2, the first unit to go to the CF&E in G&W paint.

http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2012/12/Union%20Pacific%20looking%20to%20restore%20Big%20Boy%20for%20excursion%20service.aspx Apparently the UP is looking into putting a Big Boy back into service, they are looking at the 4014 and one other engine that has not been named at this ...

Trains are now doing 110 between Dwight and Pontiac in revenue service.

Here is the best video I found of the test runs at 110MPH, not my video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwsAcDN9 ... kg&index=7

I remember when Cicero was still a ok area. It certainly went down the tubes, and fast. The area around the MJ roundhouse is one of the worst in Cicero. I still wonder what Omnitrax was thinking by leaving the units inside a roundhouse in that kind of a area. Had I been in charge of the railroad, I ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eje665/8222022724/in/photostream There's a closer look at the damage done to the 23, both units are now just piles of scrap. I remember they had that geep, as well as several other switchers stored in that area. The MJ roundhouse used to do contract work for other Omnitr...

The two SW1s, the 23 and 33, that belonged to the Manufacturer's Junction Rwy in Cicero, IL are in the process of being scrapped now. Everything except the remaints of the engine itself and the bottom halves of the cabs are gone. The 33 was the former EMD demo SW1s and was most likely one of the fir...

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 212&nseq=0 Here's the first official photo!

As if the 20 heritage units wasn't enough, NS is painting a 21st unit in a non-black paint scheme. This one will be a SD60E painted up in red, white and blue. The unit is supposed to be unveiled on Veterans Day.