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By:Scott Malec
Dates:3/2/2008 - 3/2/2008
Album Info:After the absolute traffic jam two weeks ago at Dolton, I had to come back again on a Sunday to check out the action and once again I wasn't disappointed. Dollar for dollar, this has to be the busiest junction in the country. The longest break between trains was about 15 minutes and for the three hours I was there it seemed like a train was coming every five to ten minutes. I hit several locations around the crossing, including CSX's Barr Yard, IHB's Blue Island Yard, UP's Yard Center, CP Cottage Grove and 138th Street grade crossing in Riverdale. All pics in this album were taken between 12:30 and 3:30pm CST.
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SWP 2003, MNRR 650 & 651
Title:  SWP 2003, MNRR 650 & 651
Description:  I don't know who they are or what they're doing here but they look pretty cool...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:36 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
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Locomotives:  SWP 2003(GP11) MNRR 650(SD-M) MNRR 651(SD-M)
Views:  976   Comments: 5
CSX 7718 & 8664
Title:  CSX 7718 & 8664
Description:  More power lounging at Barr Yard...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:38 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7718(C40-8W) CSX 8664(SD50)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
CSX 2543 & 1503
Title:  CSX 2543 & 1503
Description:  Couple o' Geeps at Barr Yard...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:40 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 2543(GP38-2) CSX 1503(GP15T)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
CSX 1504 & 1521
Title:  CSX 1504 & 1521
Description:  A couple of ancient Geeps do some switching at Barr Yard...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:41 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1504(GP15T) CSX 1521(GP15T)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
CSS 2003, 2008 & 2009
Title:  CSS 2003, 2008 & 2009
Description:  A trio of South Shore units idle just west of the tower at Barr yard during a downpour. This pic was taken underneath the I-57 bridge...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:43 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSS 2003(GP38-2) CSS 2008(GP38-2) CSS 2009(GP38-2)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
IHB 1508 & 1515
Title:  IHB 1508 & 1515
Description:  Two IHB switchers get drenched as a downpour ends at Blue Island Yard...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:44 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 1508(SW1500) IHB 1515(SW1500)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
IHB 2921 & 2920
Title:  IHB 2921 & 2920
Description:  Two of IHB's venerable ex-IC SD20s sit soaked at Blue Island Yard...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:45 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 2921(SD20) IHB 2920(SD20)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
IHB 1516
Title:  IHB 1516
Description:  resting at Blue Island Yard...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:47 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 1516(SW1500)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
IHB 3862 & 2925
Title:  IHB 3862 & 2925
Description:  Two different types of SDs are linked up here...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:48 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 3862(SD38-2) IHB 2925(SD20)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
IHB 1509
Title:  IHB 1509
Description:  Yet another switcher, this one on the east side of the Halsted Street bridge...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:50 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 1509(SW1500)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
CN 5699 & 5702
Title:  CN 5699 & 5702
Description:  A couple of CN units sit on one of the yard leads at the north end of UP's Yard Center at 144th Street...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:51 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CN 5699(SD75I) CN 5702(SD75I)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
CSX 559 & CN 5699
Title:  CSX 559 & CN 5699
Description:  The two CN units head down the switch track to the IHB while a CSX freight charges south towards Yard Center...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:53 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 559(AC44CW) CN 5699(SD75I)
Views:  520   Comments: 1
CSX 559 & 390
Title:  CSX 559 & 390
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:54 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 559(AC44CW) CSX 390(AC44CW)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
CSX 559 & 390
Title:  CSX 559 & 390
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:55 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 559(AC44CW) CSX 390(AC44CW)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
IHB 1524 & 477
Title:  IHB 1524 & 477
Description:  1524 and a slug head east light in front of Dolton library...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:57 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 1524(SW1500) IHB 477(Yard Slug)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
UP 3871 & 4143
Title:  UP 3871 & 4143
Description:  Westbound UP autorack train on the IHB...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:58 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3871(SD70M) UP 4143(SD70M)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
UP 3871 & 4143
Title:  UP 3871 & 4143
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:00 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3871(SD70M) UP 4143(SD70M)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
UP 3871 & 4143
Title:  UP 3871 & 4143
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:01 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3871(SD70M) UP 4143(SD70M)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
CSX 8736
Title:  CSX 8736
Description:  A CSX stack train waits it's turn at CP Cottage Grove...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:02 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8736(SD60I)
Views:  154   Comments: 0
CSX 769 & 786
Title:  CSX 769 & 786
Description:  Another CSX stack train heads east on the mainline at CP Cottage Grove...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:04 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 769(ES44AC-H) CSX 786(ES44AC-H)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
CSX 769 & 786
Title:  CSX 769 & 786
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:05 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 769(ES44AC-H) CSX 786(ES44AC-H)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
CSX Train Meet
Title:  CSX Train Meet
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:07 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 8736(SD60I) CSX 769(ES44AC-H) CSX 786(ES44AC-H)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
CSX 6109 & UP 2995
Title:  CSX 6109 & UP 2995
Description:  Activity at Yard Center...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:08 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6109(GP40-2) UP 2995(SD40-2)
Views:  439   Comments: 1
CSX 6109
Title:  CSX 6109
Description:  CSX 6109 takes a short cut of cars across the intersection of 138th and Indiana Ave...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:01:09 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6109(GP40-2)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
CSX 6109
Title:  CSX 6109
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:00:34 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 6109(GP40-2)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
CSX 5459 & 5451
Title:  CSX 5459 & 5451
Description:  Yet another CSX stacker, this time at 138th and Indiana...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:26 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 5459(ES44DC) CSX 5451(ES44DC)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
CSX 5459 & 5451
Title:  CSX 5459 & 5451
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:28 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 5459(ES44DC) CSX 5451(ES44DC)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
UP 8367
Title:  UP 8367
Description:  Big-ass power movement on the IHB...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:30 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8367(SD70ACe)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
UP 8367
Title:  UP 8367
Description:  A not-so-clean ACe...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:31 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8367(SD70ACe)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
UP 4542
Title:  UP 4542
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:37 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 4542(SD70M)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
UP 7684
Title:  UP 7684
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:38 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 7684(AC45CCTE)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
UP 3922
Title:  UP 3922
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:39 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  275   Comments: 0
UP 5200
Title:  UP 5200
Description:  Angle-nose SD70M...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:41 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 5200(SD70M)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
IHB 1520
Title:  IHB 1520
Description:  The umpteenth IHB switcher of the day...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:42 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB 1520(SW1500)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
IHB PB1
Title:  IHB PB1
Description:  Badly framed...sorry
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:44 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IHB PB1(Yard Slug)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
Six Unit Light Power Movement
Title:  Six Unit Light Power Movement
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:45 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  121   Comments: 0
CSX 809 & 806
Title:  CSX 809 & 806
Description:  These look fairly new, renumbered from SD80MACs...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:46 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 809(ES44AC-H) CSX 806(ES44AC-H)
Views:  474   Comments: 0
CSX 809 & 806
Title:  CSX 809 & 806
Description:  Two nice looking newer GEVOs haul loaded coal eastbound...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:48 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 809(ES44AC-H) CSX 806(ES44AC-H)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
CSX 809 & 806
Title:  CSX 809 & 806
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:49 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 809(ES44AC-H) CSX 806(ES44AC-H)
Views:  528   Comments: 0
CSS 2009, 2008 & 2003
Title:  CSS 2009, 2008 & 2003
Description:  I was in the library parking lot and I came over here to get a better shot at the South Shore units when they started moving again and I stopped right under the lowering crossing gates like an idiot. The other railfans in the city hall parking lot must have thought I was quite the ass.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:50 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSS 2009(GP38-2) CSS 2008(GP38-2) CSS 2003(GP38-2)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
CSS 2009, 2008 & 2003
Title:  CSS 2009, 2008 & 2003
Description:  The South Shore trio returns light to Michigan City...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:52 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSS 2009(GP38-2) CSS 2008(GP38-2) CSS 2003(GP38-2)
Views:  380   Comments: 0
CSX 1519
Title:  CSX 1519
Description:  A tiny old solo Geep struggles with its load...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:53 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1519(GP15T)
Views:  396   Comments: 1
CSX 1519
Title:  CSX 1519
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:14:25 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 1519(GP15T)
Views:  397   Comments: 1
CSX 717 & 721
Title:  CSX 717 & 721
Description:  More new GEVOs renumbered from SD70MACs...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:19:59 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 717(ES44AC-H) CSX 721(ES44AC-H)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
CSX 717 & 721
Title:  CSX 717 & 721
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:20:01 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 717(ES44AC-H) CSX 721(ES44AC-H)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
CSX 717 & 721
Title:  CSX 717 & 721
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:20:07 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 717(ES44AC-H) CSX 721(ES44AC-H)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
CSX 717 & 721
Title:  CSX 717 & 721
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:20:08 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 717(ES44AC-H) CSX 721(ES44AC-H)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
NS 3040 (Bottle Train)
Title:  NS 3040 (Bottle Train)
Description:  After sitting around the bend on the old PRR line, the venerable bottle train makes it's move...
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:20:10 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3040(GP40-2)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
NS 3040 (Bottle Train)
Title:  NS 3040 (Bottle Train)
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:20:11 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 3040(GP40-2)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
UP 9152 & 2484
Title:  UP 9152 & 2484
Description:  The bottle train caused me to miss the approach shot of the UP train on the CSX...(lead unit unidentified)
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 3/2/2008 6:20:13 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Scott Malec
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9152(C40-8) UP 2484(SD60M)
Views:  370   Comments: 0


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