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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSFLaGrange Hey everyone! I am really glad someone finally stepped up and started a topic just for Chicagoians. I was going to but I hadn't joined the fourms yet, so here we go. I am 15 years old and I travel all around Chicago and the burbs for trains and great pictures. I use Metra, the El, and other buses becuase my parents wont drive me to the South side. But anyway both of my houses have been just a few blocks away from Metra tracks. My old house was a couple of blocks away from Mayfair Junction. My new house is two blocks away from the UP-NW Line stop at Gladstone Park. My favorite junction of all time so far in my young career ( 1 and a half years) has to be LaGrange followed by Blue Island. Now the questions and an answer........... If the city finds enough cash and develops a plan to reroute the CN Mayor Daley will shutdown the St. Charles Air Line. #1 Is the UP Cragin Line, that passes through Mayfair, still in use anywhere between Cragin and north up to Lincolnwood ,where it ends? #2 A week ago when I went railfanning in Franklin Park, at the BRC connection with the MD-W, at Cragin there was a stopped train waiting to come on the MD-W. It had NS and UP engines, in that order, and it did crawl into Bensonville yard 10 minutes after I got off the train at Franklin Park. Any clue where this came from or what its symbol was? #3 Do CP trains that use the IHB-CSX joint line head east to Detroit and the East Coast? #4 Are there any regularly operating freight trains on the UP-NW Line, like where I live at? #5 There is always a northbound CP Doublestack train on the MD-N, thatpasses through Forest Glen between 7 P.M. and 8 P.M. What is its train symbol? #6 Do any Wisconson & Southern trains pass through Rondout, at a resonable time? #7 Do any EJ&E trains pass through West Chicago at a resonable time? #8 Do IC&E trains run on the MD-W? #9 Are there any unknown, but safe junctions on the south side? (Not Blue Island and Dolton) #10 Does anyone know what the symbols on coal cars (PSTX, CTRN) stand for? If so name a few. #11 Can you name a few subdivisions around Chicago, particularly the BNSF Metra route. #12 Can I get to Dolton by bus or train? #13 Is there any action on the CP tracks around Goose Island anymore? #14 Has anyone seen, CN power still in WC or DM&IR paint that run through Chicago??????? Please say yes, and lots of it!!!!! Sorry for the mass amount of questions but this is what a whole year of railfanning on your own can do! P.S. Im going to Brighton Park after school, wish me good fortune. [/quote] If I remember right, the BNSF from chicago to aurora is the aurora sub. Once you get west of aurora, you get the line to St Paul splitting off of the Mendota sub which runs to Galesburg. Check out the map at BNSF.com to find out for sure.
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