Chicago Rail Link, CRL, in Blue Island!

Today was the best day of foaming in my life! Next to that time in Ottawa, haha Matt, anyway... So with all the excitement in the air, after seeing the Iowa, EJ&E, and IHB, we were thinking what could come through next? Sure enough, we hear an enormous noise coming from Burr Oaks yard, and it could only be one thing, the CRL! I never knew that they worked on Sunday's, unless this is just a pure fluke thing. The crew came from gathering grain hoppers for the IHB in Burr Oaks, and our first sight of them was crossing the IHB and CSX mains on the bridge. Between the time it took the CRL to get onto the junction, an IHB local trotted through the diomand. The Rail Link then set out onto the IAIS / Metra main to Robbins, where they would wye down the CSX / Evans Yard connection track. The crew dropped the 20 some grain hoppers on a siding parallel to the IHB in Riverdale. The engines returned light, but didn't go back to Burr Oaks (Sorry, my bad, didn't know...) They went to Mokena to pick up the cars sitting in the lumber siding, and from there bring that train to Burr Oaks. All in all, SWEET!

Click here for the pictures on Flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagorailfan/3759850525/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagorailfan/3760647930/

~Blue Island, IL
7/26/09

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[BoxcarFrank]

Definately a day to remember!

[Andrewsaxamophone]

Hells yeh.

[iais502]

And keep those pants on too

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Awesome video 5*****

[NicTrain35]

Huh?

[TommyBNSF]

wtf, look at Nick waddle? Nice catch!

[GhostFearMe]

wicked

[EMD7602]

OMFG!-Awesome....I thought the CRL would never run.

[mt90945557]

Nice catch of the CRL. They run behind my grandparents' house and I loved seeing those go by.

[johnleemuyo]

Great team work, alsome video.