ICE funeral Train

UP 3053 leads the MCLPR by Acker Road, IL on 031307. Trailing power was UP 2952 and UPY 671. Behind them were ICEs 203, 363, 217, and 221. 221 is a former Chicago Great Western unit, notice the nose headlight cover. 203 and 217 are former Conrail, obviously. These units were dead and supposidly on their way into Chciago to be cut up.

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[ericdeankilla]

Dead means out of service till they get to a servicing point on the respective RR, they do not recycle locomotives they sell them to smaller RR's or just keep them running for there own use, You just dont get rid of LOCO's they are to expensive to replace. I know this cuz I work on the (what use to be the ICE) railroad.

[cnw8577]

Well, those units WERE cut up for scrap about a week after I shot that video. NREX looked at getting the old ICE SD40s, but they were in such bad shape they weren't worth fixing up, so every last one of them was scrapped(except for the ICE 208(now ICE 6102) which was upgraded to an SD40-3 or something like that). They were sold to Houston Locomotive and cut up by a company called Jabco IIRC in Chicago Heights.

[LocalRailfan]

whats a funeral train??

[cnw8577]

This was their last trip, they were cut up for scrap less than a week after I shot this video

[aaron13133]

what do u mean funeral train?

[cnw8577]

The four ICE units were on their way to Chicago Heights to be cut up for scrap. If I remember, all of them were torched within a week of me shooting this video.

[deathstarmygnr]

A funeral train in the railfan world is when a train is carrying dead locomotives that are going to be cut up for scrap.

[thetrainman407]

thats so depressing. frankly all of those units shouldnt be cut up. why do they have to cut up so many SD40-2s!!!

[amtrak3501]

nice lashup, nice horn as well.

[trainlover1999]

nice catch, did they scrap the ex conrails too?

[waynemegaman]

I guess they cant all go to a museum but that doesnt make the pill any easier to swallow. Thans for the video and information!

[k5lta]

maybe they got replaced with ACEs or GEVOs.

[Railfanable]

ICE?

[southern4501isawesom]

i wish they would save the sd40-2s they are better then those damned dash9s

[deloreanman14]

I remember reading somewhere a man recalling when SP scrapped their GS 4-8-4 steam locomotives. They would be hauled through town to the scrap yard two at a time (and without tenders) by diesels and he said it was almost impossible to watch.

[meccaturbo]

Those Conrail units are ex PRR.

[StCatharinesRailFan8]

@cnw8577 caught 6102 on a CP ethanol in Ft. Erie, ON yesterday (July 28th 2011) :P Ex-Montana Rail Link

[EMD710ACe]

Wow nice catch but sad!