Passenger Trains > Northern Sky w/ Chicago Backdrop

Looking like a model railroad a bit. Northern Sky had just arrived into Chicago and is awaiting a trip around the wye to be properly pointed for a departure to LA on today's 3(6). Engine 504 was chugging away a few tracks over. The sights and sounds of the 500's will truly be missed (if they actually ever retire them). I'll include a photo of the car on train 342 in Glenview before I hightailed it to downtown. By the time I got to Roosevelt the train was already unloaded, moved to the yard and the Northern Sky was uncoupled. Very quick move. 

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Thanks Seth for great views and information.  Frustrating as all get out to see that the S&I Building only covers 2 tracks...after all these years.  I know capital is scarce, but how they could not have covered additional tracks in lo these many years is not able to be understood.  If memory serves, tracks 3 and 4 are covered with the balance of the coach yard service tracks 1-2, 5-14 without any protection. SMH.

I know Amtrak won't look out for itself, but you would hope that the state partners would have enough sense to demand that their equipment be better protected and serviced.

I remember better days when those tracks were crowded with PVs.  But ATK execs hated the fact that private cars were the only profitable part of their so-called business.  The trouble was that it caused a little bit of extra effort -- bad idea for a government agency with no incentive to achieve beyond the minimum.

-John