Great video track side at West Chicago, Illinois, Andrew! You had lots of action on the 16th of June 2020. Thank you for putting this video together and sharing it with us!
Wow awesome vid. Lots of DPU's and alot of different power on UP and CN. Favorite Train is at 19:40. Love that AC6000CW or a rebuild AC6000CW and that train at 19:40 was going fast over that junction at the end.
I like the clacking at speed going on here. It's interesting how these diamonds have not yet been replaced with flange bearing ones. Is it perhaps because both lines curve nearby, making the speeds slower? Quite a few mainline diamonds have been replaced with OWLS or full flange bearing ones in the near past.
F59PHIs run on the UP-W UP Geneva Subdivision ? Interesting I thought they were to only run on the Heritage Corridor, Milwaukee District North, & North Central Service, pretty interesting it would be interesting if Metra assigned the F59PHI units on BNSF IMO keep up the hard work
Some of the Metra F59PHI locomotives (76 and 79 in particular) were sitting Metra's Western Avenue Coach Yard for so long due to no installation of PTC. Instead, they were given to the Metra UP to install PTC. As a result, they will run the Metra UP-Northwest and UP-West lines. -Andrew Mangalindan
The same reason as to why there may be locomotives at the back: extra power. The railroad industry officially calls them distributed power units (DPUs for short).
Very good indeed I made sure I saved every video
Great video track side at West Chicago, Illinois, Andrew! You had lots of action on the 16th of June 2020. Thank you for putting this video together and sharing it with us!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Wow awesome vid. Lots of DPU's and alot of different power on UP and CN. Favorite Train is at 19:40. Love that AC6000CW or a rebuild AC6000CW and that train at 19:40 was going fast over that junction at the end.
Thank you!
Awesome video, Andrew! See you on Friday!
I like the clacking at speed going on here.
It's interesting how these diamonds have not yet been replaced with flange bearing ones. Is it perhaps because both lines curve nearby, making the speeds slower?
Quite a few mainline diamonds have been replaced with OWLS or full flange bearing ones in the near past.
Awesome Video
nice video
Thank you!
F59PHIs run on the UP-W UP Geneva Subdivision ? Interesting I thought they were to only run on the Heritage Corridor, Milwaukee District North, & North Central Service, pretty interesting it would be interesting if Metra assigned the F59PHI units on BNSF IMO keep up the hard work
Some of the Metra F59PHI locomotives (76 and 79 in particular) were sitting Metra's Western Avenue Coach Yard for so long due to no installation of PTC. Instead, they were given to the Metra UP to install PTC. As a result, they will run the Metra UP-Northwest and UP-West lines. -Andrew Mangalindan
Ah interesting makes sense
Wc diamond glad u got there
There’s a Wig Wag at the fire department In west chicago.
My dad works at West Chicago
This video is my favorite 😁
Thank you!
This video will be good
If you put it to 2 X faster you’ll see that the train is moving fast
Ship it by railroads yes
wow CN was busy most of the time its dead maybe 2 trains go by
Why are there middle engines on some freight trains 🚂
The same reason as to why there may be locomotives at the back: extra power. The railroad industry officially calls them distributed power units (DPUs for short).
@@DowntownWithBrown CN always uses mid train DPU'S never seen 1 at the end UP is doing that now and BNSF
Nice Video!