Canadian National

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know the amount of traffic carried on the CN between Chicago & Freeport?

[eolafan]

Not really sure, but have been traveling on Hwy. 20 between Rockford and Dubuque for years now and have rarely seen a train on the line you speak of, however since the CN bought the line (ex. ICG) the track work seems to have brought it up to fine standards and I am sure there are many more trains than one would think. Ever been to the old IC shops in Freeport?, then are really interesting to be near, and bring back a lot of memories of rail history.

[Anonymous]

Hi there,
I haven't been on that line for a while but back a couple years, there were only a few trains on the line each day... but they could be whoppers. I think that the daily through freight was called 50 and 51. On was the east bound, the other the west bound. I'd seen that train out of Freeport going West on Sunday morning a number of times. They must have used it to equalize power because I'd seen it with as many as 12 locomotives (but several were dead-in-tow.) I think that it ran about 60-80 cars. Its great to see it along the curves in the Galena area. It seems that a unit coal train had used that line (loaded East, empty west also, maybe going into the Joliet area.) I think that there was also a Chicago-Freeport local that worked the industries. It did appear to be a decent physical plant. My wife lived in Freeport for a while before we were married and when I went to visit her, I'd squeeze in a little time to get down to the yard (Wallace yard? I think) in Freeport.

[Soo2610]

Caught what must have been the same train going thru Galena a year ago last Oct. It blew my mind! Had twelve locomotives, all under power, a white bearded engineer with a big smile waving merrily out the window and well over 100 cars. Caught it on film. The crowning glory was the hobo bedded down under a trailer on the second to last car also waving merrily to everyone as the train went past.

[Anonymous]

I like trains they are fast in some countries apart from in my home country of afghanistan where the taliban blew them up one day they blew up a train with my mum on it and she died and two weeks later they killed my dad because he tried to fight one of them and now I am living in england with my new adopted family and they tought me how to write in english.

[Anonymous]

paulie you dumb s**t go back home