Eastern Railroad Discussion > CN's Engineering Train in Downtown Chicago

I work in downtown Chicago, and sometimes circumstances force me to drive rather than take the L. To skip the cost of parking, I park at Ping Tom park, right near the St. Charles Air Line and CN, and ride my bike into work. Part of the bargain is that I might catch a train.

Yesterday I lucked out on my ride back and saw CN's engineering train get the light to cross the Metra/RI diamonds, so I flew through slush and snow to get up on the 18th st. bridge.

Looks like the second car was a Pullman Standard 60' box before.

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Sweet catch! Lucky.

Andy

inCHI Wrote:
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> I work in downtown Chicago, and sometimes
> circumstances force me to drive rather than take
> the L. To skip the cost of parking, I park at Ping
> Tom park, right near the St. Charles Air Line and
> CN, and ride my bike into work. Part of the
> bargain is that I might catch a train.
>

It's impressive that you bike in this weather.

Nice photos. Thanks for sharing.

Neat shot! I like the water case in the nose of that geep!
Dan

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Solar panels on the first car?

The 'ATGMS test car' with solar panels is interesting in a couple of ways... it's a second-hand 50'-6" Berwick boxcar that appears to have been retrofitted with a 12'-6" plug door for it's current assignment rather than years ago when CN rebuilt many ex-RBOX cars. Also odd that it keeps its revenue service number rather than a 5-digit OCS number. Here it is in 2005, RRPA shows it later got the CN website and small logo scheme

http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=cna415867&o=cn

Nice pics and catch!!