Late Night Railfanning At Main Street, Downers Grove, IL. 5-24-09.

Everyone was out of town and I had just gotten off of work so I decided I'd do a little late night railfanning on the Chicago Subdivision. I downed a 5-Hour Energy (yes they do work) and I was good all night. The quietness of Downtown Downers at this time was only broken by the trains going to and from Chicago. I had the platform to myself the entire night.

12:58AM-
First train of the day was the Eastbound Z-SSECHC Hi-Priority Intermodal.
BNSF C44-9W #4928
BNSF C44-9W #5424
BNSF C44-9W #4829

1:12AM-
Westbound X-CHCWIB Empty Grain Train out of Cicero.
BNSF SD70MAC #9767
BNSF ES44DC #7229
KCS "Sobelle" SD70ACe #4046

1:27AM-
Westbound 1325 was the first Metra of the day led by MP36PH-3 #401, the Oliver Tibbles unit.

1:41AM-
Eastbound Z-CHCSSE Hi Priority Intermodal.
BNSF ES44DC #7612
BNSF C44-9W #1000
BNSF C44-9W #4758
BNSF C44-9W #4118

2:05AM-
Light Units for the M-CHCGAL Manifest head West to Eola to pick up about 100 cars.
ES44C4 #6623
NS C40-9W #9630
NS SD70M #6760

2:08AM-
Westbound S-CHCTAC Container Intermodal.
BNSF ES44DC #7307
BNSF C44-9W #4728

3:47AM-
Eastbound C-NAMCSS Loaded Unit Coal Train.
BNSF ES44AC #5926
BNSF SD70MAC #9866

4:44AM-
Westbound V-CHCTAC Loaded Vehicle Train.
BNSF C44-9W #5359
BNSF C44-9W #5523

4:56AM-
Eastbound C-CAMCIP Loaded Unit Coal Train.
BNSF ES44AC #5953
BNSF SD70ACe #9197

5:04AM-
Westbound E-CSWNAM Empty Unit Coal Train.
BNSF SD70MAC #9698
BNSF SD70MAC #8951

5:17AM-
Eastbound Z-PTLCHC Hi Priority Intermodal.
BNSF C44-9W #4040
BNSF C44-9W #5366
BNSF ES44DC #7234
BNSF ES44DC #7595

5:43AM-
Power for the E-EOSJRM Empty EJ&E State Line Coal heads West to Eola.
BNSF ES44AC #5938
BNSF SD70MAC #9737

6:46AM-
Metra 1302 Inbound is being pushed by F40PHM-2 #200 today.

6:53AM-
Westbound E-CCMBTM Empty Unit Coal Train.
BNSF SD70ACe #9139
BNSF SD70MAC #9409
BNSF SD70MAC #8897
BNSF SD70MAC #8955

6:55AM-
Eastbound M-GALCHC Manifest.
BNSF ES44AC #6070
BNSF C44-9W #4487
EMDX GP40-2 #743
BNSF GP60M #108

(c) 9th Street Productions.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• BNSF
• Metra
• METX
• Chicago
• Subdivision
• Downers
• Grove
• Napierville
• LaGrange
• LaVernge
• Berwyn
• Eola
• Aurora
• Train
• Railroad
• Railfan
• Foamer

[Weiberts]

Were you up until morning?

[BoxcarFrank]

Well obviously. Check the times in the description.

[larry84988]

any one get on or off that first metra? lol

[BoxcarFrank]

Yeah a few.

[PeavineRailfanner]

Is that on the Transcon? Nice Video 5*.

[BoxcarFrank]

Chicago Subdivision.

[MattBNSF1991]

woah, 6623 = ES44C4!

whoo hoo

[GhostFearMe]

awesome catches..specially the KCS & EMDX units

[RailfanningRulez]

howcome alot of freights were running the wrong main?

[DarkNightOfVampires]

You are awesome x'd Also I love beign out at night.

[ohytr11]

Where is this at i would love to go see all those trains.

[kdlehel]

cool.

[MattBNSF1991]

nice job on getting the 2nd train to give a honk given the late hour.