Western Railroad Discussion > Iowa Pacific Special at Glenview, IL today

Here are two stills and a video of the Iowa Pacific passenger special blasting through Glenview, IL this morning, en-route from Wisconsin to Chicago Union Station.

Steve Zahn
Glenview, IL

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Nice!!

Great shots and video of that beautiful train!

- Jeff Carlson

Very nice. Excellent job!

OYW

Thanks for this! I really like the rumble of the engines at speed.

Goodness gracious that thing was moving! What is the speed limit for passenger trains at that spot?!?

Don
San Francisco

Excellent pictures & video.
John

Awesome, thanks for posting.

Nice shots and video! I remember waving at you! Great location on the parking strip as well.

Seth-

Now that boys and girls is a PASSENGER TRAIN!!!!!!

That's one great looking train, and video. Two Thumbs Up for everyone who had a hand in putting this together.

Ed can sure put togather a beautiful train!

VERY NICE...!!!

Sweet! Thanks for the video

Oh, MOST EXCELLENT !!!!

WoW! Absolutely beautiful!! All I can think about is Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans...

Simply wonderful. Fingers crossed that EEE obtains the last extant actual ex-IC E's.

Love that P5!

bluesboyst Wrote:
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> Now that boys and girls is a PASSENGER TRAIN!!!!!!


EXACTLY! Take notes, Amtrak! (Wouldn't it be nice if new engines had this body style?)

Mike

Per CP US East region Timetable No. 2, 79 mph. Glenview is MP 17.4

Psgr Other

MAXIMUM SPEED ................................. 79 60
Exceptions:
Canal Street, Chicago ............................... 15 15
MP 0.6 - MP 0.7 EWD movement only ...... 25
Racine Ave to Tower A2 ............................ 60 20
except Light engines ................................ 40 20
Tower A 2/Western Ave - MP 5.4 .............. 60 40
except through Tower A 2/Western Ave.
interlocking between MP 2.8 second
absolute signal bridge governing
westward movements over UP crossing
to MP 3.1 absolute signals governing
eastward movements ................................. 20 20
Tower A5, NOs. 1, 2 and 3 MT between ....
C&M and Elgin Subs ................................. 15 15
All other wye tracks ................................... 10 10
Grayland and Mayfair over UP Crossings .. 60 40
MP 5.4 and MP 32.3 (Rondout) ................ 79 40
except 100 series trains ............................ 60
Including over EJE crossing ..................... 79 40
MP 32.3 - MP 43.0 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 79 55
MP 43.0 - MP 44.5 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 79 50
MP 60.0 - MP 62.5 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 79 50
MP 73.5 - MP 75.0 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 79 45
MP 75.0 - MP 79.5 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 79 50
MP 80.3 - MP 83.3 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 70 50
MP 83.3 - MP 84.5 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 40 25
MP 84.5 - MP 84.9 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 30 25
MP 84.9 - MP 85.5 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 15 10
MP 85.5 - MP 88.3 NO 1 and NO 2 MT ..... 40 40
except MP 85.5 - MP 87.3 HER for
EWD moves ............................................... 30 30