Purchased by the Milwaukee Road for Chicago commuter service in 1974, these Metra locomotives could be found still plying their original routes 30 years later. They are shown here at Fox Lake, Rondout, and Elgin, Illinois with a last shot of the dead line outside the Metra shops in 2004.
These clips will be featured in an upcoming episode of the TV series Trackside. Go to www.trainweb.org/tracksideonli ne for more information.
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i wish metra could have kept those engines. i thought they were the nicest ones they had.
Last time I checked, we run coal trains that could wrap around your country twice. We're still using locomotives in revenue service that are 50 years old. Where are yours? The scrap yard? Continued in Part 2