After a morning at Franklin Park and midday at Elgin, by way of the Pace Suburban Bus route 801, I ended up in Geneva on (where else?) Union Pacific's Geneva Subdivision, the ex-C&NW triple-track (though here only two tracks) main line west out of Chicago. If you like coal trains, you'll love this video. Three in maybe an hour.
Train 1:
UP AC4400CWs #7225 and 7185 lead a loaded coal drag east past the Geneva station. UP AC6000 #7309 pushes as the DPU.
Train 2:
Two SD70Ms and an ES44AC are on the point of a westbound ARMN unit reefer train, meeting a slow eastbound at the signals just past Geneva station.
Train 3:
Four motors- ES44AC #7632, SD70M #4129, SD70ACe #8377 and SD70M #4598, are eastbound with a Z-train with UPS in the consist.
Train 4:
A westbound coal train approaches, coming downgrade across the Fox River. AC4400CWs #5862 and 6857 lead, with 5767 on the rear.
Train 5:
Yet another coal train, this one on the right-hand main, passes through Geneva. UP 5681 and 6529 lead, with an AC6000 on the rear.
Train 6:
F40PH #138, the "Village of Lombard", blows across the street and to a stop at Geneva with an 8-car train, nearly meeting the end of the coal train.
Train 7:
Three SD70Ms run west with a long manifest.
Train 8:
Meeting the end of the manifest, the same set of equipment as the earlier Metra outbound arrives back at Geneva from Elburn, heading into the city, as a crowd of New Year's partiers waits to board.
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