CSXT 1973, an ES44AH newly painted in a Chessie heritage scheme, leads M648 through Beecher, IL on the joint UP/CSX Villa Grove Subdivision, nearing the end of its journey to the BRC in Chicago.
Paul Meyer photo.
CSXT 8902 leads CSX Q648 with a CSX ST70AH leading as it sits quietly in Beecher Illinois.
After several hours of delays between Barr Yard and Yard Center, CSX's handling of INRD's run-thru Coke train from Minnesota heads south down former C&EI rails at my namesake town.
Rolling south with a long manifest train for Pine Bluff, AR, the UP's M-CHPB disturbs the silence of a late evening in downtown Beecher, IL.
We got ahead of the special due to his stop in Chicago Heights....so we decided to head south for one last shot.....thanks to Paul Burgess for sorta showing us this shot.....
