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EJE SD38-2 #674
EJE "State Line"
EJE Eastern Sub (MP 8.3)
New Lenox, Illinois, USA
July 25, 2004

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EJE SD38-2 #663
EJE IGW1
EJE Western Sub (MP 28.9) 'JB' Tower
West Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 02, 2004

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EJE SD38-2 #675
EJE IGW1
EJE Western Sub (MP 28.9) West Chicago Plant B
West Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 02, 2004

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EJE SD38-2 #671
EJE JSW3
EJE Western Sub (MP 29.2) West Chicago Yard
West Chicago, Illinois, USA
July 27, 2004

-Kevin

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Nice to see a little indivuality in a world ruled by a few big carriers. Thanks for sharing. I'll be posing my "J" shot from the early 70's including the Big Baldwin Trasfer units when a friend of mine gets around to scaning them. I've got cabooses too.

My old stomping grounds! I always enjoyed seeing an EJ&E train go across the UP (then CNW) at notch 8 with that distinctive 3 chime horn. I especially liked the EJ&E ore trains. In that photo of the EJ&E passing the freight station, it is amazing that the station is still standing.

When does the J run thru West Chicago? I've been out there quite often in the past and never saw a J train.

-Mike

For a while last summer the "Long West" train was running late (southbound) almost every day so it would usually come by in the morning. The JSW3 train is an extra that ran a few times because traffic was up (I dont know if it is anymore)! And that IGW1 train was just luck... It was a string of bran new coal cars being delivered to the UP. Now, the "Long West" shows up in the afternoon / evening usully going northbound. Listen to the scanner AAR 9191 161.475 for warrants, you are at MP 30.

-Kevin

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Nice to see a little indivuality in a world ruled
> by a few big carriers. Thanks for sharing. I'll be
> posing my "J" shot from the early 70's including
> the Big Baldwin Trasfer units when a friend of
> mine gets around to scaning them. I've got
> cabooses too.

Maybe you could e-mail those to me for my J site when you get them scanned? I'm always looking for good older stuff like that to save.

And once again MILW261, nice shots. The single unit coal is my fave.

Dave
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DaveD Wrote:
The single
> unit coal is my fave

Me too but nothing beats an EJ&E ore train going over the triple track diamonds at high speed. Now that's an experience.

Where was the photo of the 675 taken?