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These tracks are still here. There's still a station stop here at Lisle. This car is probably still in service though re-habbed once or twice. This E8 has been long retired. Metra runs the commuter service here now but the trains are a lot longer and service is more frequent. This is the old Q racetrack, now operated by the BNSF.

About five miles west of here and 45 years later: [link]

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:iconzcochrane:
That does not look like a successful commuter train operation...

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Güter auf die Bahn!
:iconclassictrains:
Actually it was very successful. This just happened to be a Sunday afternoon run. I was standing on the roof of a boxcar waiting for the 4960 to show up. On weekdays these things would have 8-12 cars, sometimes double-headed.

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I dunno... whada you think?
:iconzcochrane:
Oh, OK, that's different.

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Güter auf die Bahn!
:iconyankeedog:
I was going to ask on the previous shot from this location if you were standing on the roof of a boxcar. :-) Cool shot!
-YD

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They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
--Andy Warhol

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:iconclassictrains:
who me? trespassing? up here on this box car? sorry officer it won't happen again... again... again... :-)

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I dunno... whada you think?
:iconfactorone33:
Okay, now THIS looks like it came from a model layout.

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"Diplomacy is the ability to tell a person to go to hell in such a way that he looks forward to the trip."

"God is playing a comic to an audience that's afraid to laugh."—Voltaire

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:iconclassictrains:
Having a short depth of field focused on the front of the engine will do that.

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I dunno... whada you think?
:iconyankeedog:
It's funny how paranoid I am now after being stopped by a Federal Marshal in Downtown Pittsburgh shooting a photo of Penn Station and I was standing on a public sidewalk.
-YD

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They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
--Andy Warhol

BTP&D [link] Member: PSi [link] Member: VBU [link] PA [link]
:iconthe-stealth-ninja:
I just bought 2 of those E8s in HO to complete the motive power for my California Zephyr. They should be here this friday!

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Holy Shit! I got a Canon 20D!! :jawdrop:

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