A beautiful, unseasonably warm November day found me trackside in Lake Villa, Illinois along the old Soo Line watching a CN intermodal zoom past Lehmann Park.

You want power? 20-cylinder WC 7514, screaming south for Grayslake with Vulcan rock train U700 on the Waukesha Sub, and ~150-kilovolt high-tension lines run a parallel route here in Antioch. Unfor... (more)

WC 7514 leads the U-700 rock train south on the Waukesha Sub.

Rock loads to Grayslake

Sitting crewless on the main...