The start of summer is in the air all throughout Northwest Illinois and it's kicked off with a lengthy CP 473 using every bit of notch 8 to lug the train through Monroe Center. The Heritage ACU le... (more)

A rebuilt AC4400 leads 473 out of the Bettendorf siding. Trailing are 3 more AC4400 rebuild candidates.

A pair of rebuilt AC4400's bring CP's Bensenville to Nahant manifest over Duck Creek.

CP 8118, a new AC44C6M rebuild, crawls south out of the siding at Bettendorf shortly after meeting a northbound. CP 473 has 3 CP Rail "Dual Flags" in tow, which I can only assume are headed for re... (more)

CP 473 flies south through LeClaire on an unseasonably warm morning.

CP 5030 highballs it out of Davis Junction, IL with CP 473 in tow through the thick and wet snowfall.

CP 5030 fights through the snow as it heads west out of Genoa, IL with CP 473 in tow.

CP 5030, a recently rebuilt SD40-2, makes one of it's first runs on the CP Chicago Sub. As the snow falls, it kicks it right back up as it does a solid 40 mph through Kirkland, IL.

This was a rather interesting day on the CP Chicago Sub...CP was running a day behind with the 473 manifest. So what they did is run the train halfway across the Chicago Subdivision and drop it of... (more)

CEFX 1039 leads a colorful consist containing a KCS Southern Belle SD70ACe, and DME 6359, the Mount Rushmore unit west out of Davis Junction on it's way to Nahant, IA.

473 heads west past B-17 with a duo of NS units, shocker.

An all EMD consist, Two Southern Belles, a CSX SD40-3, and NS SD70M-2, lead 473 past B-17

As the snow falls over Northern Illinois, i find myself chasing CP 473 with a ECO leader. Here it is seen rounding the curve west of Davis Junction passing under the IL Rt. 72 bridge

With two freshly rebuilt NS SD60Es, CP 473 heads west towards Savanna. There had just been a pretty big snowfall in are area and that resulted in a 10ft high snow mound next to the tracks! climbed... (more)

With only 12 minutes to sunset, a pair of EMD's leads #473, freight from Bensenville, IL to Nahant, IA. The leader is an ex MILW SD40-2 (206) and is 41 years old. My understanding is most of the... (more)