Southern Pacific, Eastern Illinois

We’ll follow pre-merger Southern Pacific on the Burlington Northern line from Aurora to Cicero and the Belt Railway of Chicago from Cicero to the BRC’s West End.

Trains are varied and include manifest, stack and ore trains. We’ll see a variety of SP related power (SP, SSW, DRGW) and pool power from Conrail, Santa Fe and Union Pacific. We’ll also catch the new ACA44CW units. Informative narration includes location and symbol for each train.

This is vintage nineties footage, shot using nineties equipment. It is not as sharp as programs shot today. Still, these are interesting scenes, many not covered elsewhere, and the narration is informative and top notch.