👍FACEBOOK US! / hotrailproductions  🔵 TWEET US! / csxproductions  📙OUR BLOGGER! https://www.hotrailproductions.biz/   🟦OUR TUMBLR PAGE! https://www.tumblr.com/hotrailproduct...   Two Canadian National freight trains meet at the Lake Villa Metra station. The first train is led by a rare EMD SD75I and a GE ES44DC. The second train is led by an EMD SD70 still in Illinois Central paint and an EMD SD70M-2.  SEE OUR CN PLAYLIST! ▶️     • Canadian National Railroad     ▶️     • VERY LONG CN Freight Train w/mid-train hel...       #CANADIANNATIONALRAILWAYS , #EMDSD70LOCOMOTIVE , #RAILROADLUMBERCAR , #ICRAILROAD , #ILLINOISCENTRALRAILROAD , #EMDSD75ILOCOMOTIVE

  An eastbound CN local heads east on the IC branch from Seymour, and is passing through Staley on the west side of Champaign, Illinois. The Illinois Terminal Railroad had a line running parallel to the IC at this point, and it was here that they swung onto the IC and put their wires up over their tracks in 1927 so they could get off the city streets. We will follow this local through Champaign. Power is a Canadian National GP9R and a Grand Trunk Western GP38-2.    SEE OUR CN PLAYLIST! ▶️     • Canadian National Railroad     ▶️     • VERY LONG CN Freight Train w/mid-train hel...    #CANDIANNATIONALRAILWAY, #CANADIANNATIONALGP9R, #GRANDTRUNKWESTERNGP38, #GP9R, #EMDGP9RU, #ILLINOISCENTRALRAILROAD, #ICRAILROAD, #ICRR, #RAILROADBRANCHLINE, #ILLINOISTERMINALRAILROAD, #EMD, #EMDREBUILD, #REBUILTEMDLOCOMOTIVE  👍FACEBOOK US! / hotrailproductions  🔵 TWEET ...

  In August, 1998, we visited Wellsboro, Indiana, to find that CSX had done some housecleaning, much to the disgust of railfans. CSX's ex-B&O Willard Sub crossed the GTW Chicago-Battle Creek main, as well as CSX's ex-C&O nee-Pere Marquette branch. The three lines once crossed here in the shape of a triangle. Now the C&O simply merges into the B&O on a new connecting track from the south. The diamonds with the B&O and GTW were removed, as well as all the C&O trackage north of the junction. A balloon track once wrapped around and connected up with the B&O to the west. Between 1974 and 1986, Amtrrak's JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, later renamed the CARDINAL, used the C&O mainline through Indiana. Beginning on June 1, 1977, it took the B&O to Wellsboro, and utilized this connecting track to the Pere Marquette branch, which they took to La Crosse to pick up the C&O of Indiana mainline. The Pere Marquette branch was abandoned north of here in 198...

  We are back in Griffith, Indiana for the first time in 11 years. This junction was once one of the most complex in the world-FIVE railroads once intersected here! The EL-C&O joint line came in from the southeast and crossed the EJ&E and GTW mains. An NYC branch from Joliet paralleled the "J" and crossed everything as well. The "J" also had a branch to Porter, which headed straight east. The Porter branch was abandoned in 1985, and the EL was taken up in 1981, although a spur track remained to the north, which has since been severed. The C&O remains to the southeast to serve American Chemical. The NYC was closed on Conrail day, and torn up in 1978. Here a westbound CN freight swings off the GTW main and enters the EJ&E via the southeast connector. Power are two rare units-an EMD SD75I and an SD70I. Compare this video to the one I shot in 2000. ▶️     • Canandian National Railroad at Griffith, I...  ...

  We continue our trek of the CN Seymour Local. He has now pulled onto the IC New Orleans mainline and is backing north. After crossing NS' ex-Peoria & Eastern line, he backs across Bradley Avenue and into the yard. Note the crew members on the caboose operating the tailhose whistle . Power is a GTW GP38 and a CN GP9 rebuild.    💵CONTRIBUTE VIA PAYPAL! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...   👍FACEBOOK US! / hotrailproductions  🔵 TWEET US! / csxproductions   📙OUR BLOGGER! https://www.hotrailproductions.biz/   🟦OUR TUMBLR PAGE! https://www.tumblr.com/hotrailproduct...   CN PLAYLIST ▶️     • Canadian National Railroad     ▶️     • VERY LONG CN Freight Train w/mid-train hel...     #CANDIANNATIONALRAILWAY , #CANADIANNATIONALGP9R , #GRANDTRUNKWESTERNGP38 , #GP9R , #EMDGP9RU , #ILLINOISCENTRALRAILROAD , #ICRAILROAD , #ICRR , #RA...

      The CN Seymour local winds through downtown Champaign at Randolph Street. On the west side of Randolph, the IC branch actually fed into the Wabash branch line, so at this point he is actually running on the Wabash. The Illinois Terminal put their wires over these tracks as well, and the depot was immediately to my left. Note the "jog" in the platform where the bay window once was. This track is now gone. At this point, the CN train heads east on the ex-Wabash to the IC New Orleans mainline.   👍FACEBOOK US! / hotrailproductions  🔵 TWEET US! / csxproductions  📙OUR BLOGGER! https://www.hotrailproductions.biz/   🟦OUR TUMBLR PAGE! https://www.tumblr.com/hotrailproduct...   🏆OUR PATREON!    / hotrailproductions456     SEE OUR CN PLAYLIST! ▶️     • Canadian National Railroad   SEE THIS TRAIN SWITCHING!▶️     • CN GP9 on Local Switc...