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Western Railroad Discussion > "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..."Date: 06/09/12 20:31 "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: aussiehinz A variety of interesting display equipment on hand today at the Franklin Park Railroad Days Festival. In late afternoon, at the conclusion of the festival, I took a couple photos as the equipment made its way the short distance west toward CP's Bensenville Yard.
Cheers, aussiehinz    Date: 06/09/12 20:36 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: Vols1977 Aussieheinz, I REALLY like the 2nd pic, I used to be a TM
for them (ICG). Date: 06/09/12 20:42 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: aussiehinz Kind thanks. CN was well represented with the "IC" E-8, three business cars, and a (rather dirty) #8820.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/12 20:47 by aussiehinz.  Date: 06/09/12 20:51 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: tomstp Don't understand that E unit paint job. Did IC ever use that color scheme?
Date: 06/09/12 21:06 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: Vols1977 absolutely not. when I was there it was mainly orange and white and
some grey (GP 38 rebuilds from Paducah), then just plain, dreary BLACK Date: 06/09/12 21:08 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: SCL1517 IC "used" that paint job during the post ICG "Death Star" epoch. I never liked it and thought they blew a great chance to resucitate the brown and orange when they bought those BN E units, but I'm sort of used to it now, and surprised they haven't been CN-ized like the other two that were CN olive green and yellow for a brief time.
Date: 06/09/12 21:16 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: Vols1977 brown and yellow was their "signature" passenger train colors,
"Panama Limited", ", City of New Orleans", but IMHO our power never looked better than in Orange and White. Date: 06/09/12 22:38 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: djy23 You would think CN would try to send out a CLEAN locomotive...then again, clean locomotives for RR days are probably the least of their worries.
Date: 06/10/12 00:14 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: zchcsse Nice to see Canadian Pacific so well represented. Seriously, looks like UP sent over three units and CN sent over a bunch of stuff as well. Where was CP? Even though it's not the only railroad game in town, when I think of Bensenville and Franklin Park, I think of CP.
Nice photos and thanks for sharing!! Tom Date: 06/10/12 09:51 Re: "Franklin Park (IL) Railroad Days..." Author: bnsfsd70 Haha. That CN unit. Wow, way to clean it up for the public.
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