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Published: 2015-04-25 15:40:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 550; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 3
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4/1/15: I finally catch the CSX switching move of the remnants of the 16th Street industrial branch of the former B&OCT. GP15T 1506 picks up 5 covered hoppers from the last industry, Hickman & Williams & Co. Specialty Carbon Resources, the last vestige of this once bustling industrial area of north Cicero, IL.
Here the consist is about to cross Laramie Avenue.
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Very nice catch, I've always been a fan of the EMD Units, so is this unit pulling something or is it on it's own?
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It has 5 covered hoppers you can see the consist in the next pic... Thanks for the compliment! EMD rules!
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Excuse me Eyepilot, but I can't comprehend: altough I've seen the next pic with the 5 covered hoppers, in this picture, judging by the shadow, it seems that the locomotive is on its own.
Maybe is something like an optical illusion?
Sorry for my english
4/26/15: edited due to a minor linguistical error
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Time of day maybe, around noon... not much shadow?
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Cool, and it's very rare to find a decent EMD prowling the Rails nowadays, isn't it?
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Too true! Except for yard power it is... Railfanning the other day I only caught one EMD on the BNSF, an ACe.
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Possibly one of my best Catches was a EMD MP15 pulling a 10 Car Train through my hometown, but I couldn't tell if it was a AC or a DC.
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I miss those end cab switchers.
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Yeah, but if I had to pick a Modern Diesel that's still in use today, it would be, what I call the Monster of the 90's, the SD70 series from EMD.
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SD70s... for sure! From standard cabs to MACs and ACes!
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Yeah man 
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I wish I was taking pix at the end of F unit use in the late 70s!
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I think some Rail Companies like CSX still use F40's.
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Yes for their business trains.
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