CN, Amtrak & CTA at Bridgeport, Chicago, 30.07.11

Taken from the platform of the CTA Orange Line Ashland station, here's a view of some action from Canadian National and Amtrak at Bridgeport. This junction is where CN's ex-Illinois Central Freeport and Joliet Subdivisions split. The former heads toward Iowa via Rockford, and the latter is the former GM&O, going to St Louis via Joliet.

Here, a CN switch job picks up cars from Bridgeport Yard- the long, narrow three-track 'yard' on the other side of the bridge, where local freights on either subdivision interchange cars, and where road freights can sit and wait out of the way of passenger traffic. EJ&E SD38-2 #656 is the local power at Bridgeport today, and can be seen in the distance. CTA Orange Line trains, which here run on former Santa Fe tracks that paralleled the IC and led to Dearborn Station, pass on their way to either Midway Airport or the Loop. Power on the CN transfer job is ES44DC #2277, which shoves back into the yard to grab a few more cars before departing, probably to Hawthorne Yard. Power on the Amtrak train, which is Lincoln Service #303, headed for St Louis, is P42DC #30 ("Dirty Thirty" as I call it). It takes the Joliet Sub south, whereas the freight takes the Freeport, straight west.

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[Nachtwolf1]

@quimbyt Yes it is, it's EJ&E SD38-2 #656

[quimbyt]

At 0:59 there is an orange locomotive is that a EJ&E  locomotive ? 7