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Viewing Album:  Chicago area railfanning
 
By:John Means
Dates:4/11/1994 - 4/11/1994
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3-way meet
Title:  3-way meet
Description:  BNSF 4476 heads an intermodel into Cicero as two trains slam the IHB.
Photo Date:  4/3/2004  Upload Date: 4/3/2004 10:08:02 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4476(C44-9W) BNSF 628(C44-9W)
Views:  628   Comments: 0
End
Title:  End
Description:  The end of an intermodel train passes through La Grange on the BNSF.
Photo Date:  4/3/2004  Upload Date: 4/3/2004 10:08:02 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
Candy-apple SD40-2
Title:  Candy-apple SD40-2
Description:  Candy-apple Soo Line SD40-2 6614 heads south on the IHB. Note the different colored numberboards.
Photo Date:  4/3/2004  Upload Date: 4/3/2004 10:08:02 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  SOO 6614(SD40-2)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
"W"histle sign
Title:  "W"histle sign
Description:  A whistle sign stands at the end of the Congress Park platform on the BNSF. Even though every engineer sees it, none blow for the crossing the W sign is there for as Congress Park is a quiet zone.
Photo Date:  4/3/2004  Upload Date: 4/3/2004 10:08:02 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  193   Comments: 0
Evening backdrop
Title:  Evening backdrop
Description:  The westbound signal lights up for my last train of the night as the sun sinks low in the sky.
Photo Date:  4/3/2004  Upload Date: 4/3/2004 10:08:02 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  242   Comments: 2
BNSF grain move
Title:  BNSF grain move
Description:  BNSF 5461 leads a grain train past Congress Park station.
Photo Date:  4/3/2004  Upload Date: 4/3/2004 10:08:02 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5461(C44-9W)
Views:  425   Comments: 0
Metra Eastbound
Title:  Metra Eastbound
Description:  A Scoot heads eastbound just west of the Roselle station.
Photo Date:  4/9/2004  Upload Date: 4/10/2004 1:25:08 PM
Location:  Roselle, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 112(F40PH)
Views:  662   Comments: 0
Another Eastbound
Title:  Another Eastbound
Description:  Another Scoot goes east, this time with a new cab car. I also have raeson to believe the my uncle, an engineer, was drving this train.
Photo Date:  4/9/2004  Upload Date: 4/10/2004 1:27:02 PM
Location:  Roselle, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 417(MP36PH-3S)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
Hiawatha
Title:  Hiawatha
Description:  The Southbound Hiawatha make it's stop at Glenview
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  AMTK 40(P42DC)
Views:  755   Comments: 0
New Cab Car
Title:  New Cab Car
Description:  A brand new Metra Cab Car pulls into Glenview.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 125(F40PH)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Scoot stop
Title:  Scoot stop
Description:  126 sits waiting for the OK to leave Glenview.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 126(F40PH)
Views:  580   Comments: 0
Rails
Title:  Rails
Description:  Here is a birds eye view down the northbound main in Glenview.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
Station Overview
Title:  Station Overview
Description:  Glenview has one of the larger stations on the Metra system.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  172   Comments: 0
Arch
Title:  Arch
Description:  Here is one of the entrances to the station.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  141   Comments: 0
Doors
Title:  Doors
Description:  Amtrak and Metra both stop in Glenview so both got there names respectivelly put on each door.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Views:  148   Comments: 0
422
Title:  422
Description:  MP36 422 takes some resting time at one of the bumper tracks in Elgin.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Elgin, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 422(MP36PH-3S)
Views:  386   Comments: 0
415 sleeping
Title:  415 sleeping
Description:  415 also rest in the late afternoon sun at Elgin. This was about 2 months before it was the last MP36 to recieve numberboards.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Elgin, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 415(MP36PH-3S)
Views:  482   Comments: 0
422 and 415
Title:  422 and 415
Description:  That day, 415 and 422 occupied the bumper posts at Elgin.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Elgin, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  METX 415(MP36PH-3S) METX 422(MP36PH-3S)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  The northbound Hiawath waits to leave Glenview.
Photo Date:  4/15/2004  Upload Date: 7/6/2004 4:47:07 PM
Location:  Glenview, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  AMTK 192(P42DC)
Views:  648   Comments: 0
UP fast manifest
Title:  UP fast manifest
Description:  9520 hustles a freight westbound at Glen Ellyn.
Photo Date:  6/3/2004  Upload Date: 3/6/2004 11:11:45 PM
Location:  Glen Ellyn, IL
Author:  John Means
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Locomotives:  UP 9520(C41-8W)
Views:  398   Comments: 0

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