I took this photo a few days ago during My morning lunch break.
We are at the West Lake Avenue railroad crossing in north suburban Glenview Illinois facing east.
Seen here heading southbound diagonally across West Lake Avenue, is a Union Pacific Railroad empty unit coal train from the Wisconsin Electric Power Company in Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin. This train is passing through the western end of Glenview Illinois over the Union Pacific's former Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad freight only cut off line. The Wisconsin Electric Power Company uses a lot of coal, and recieves it's unit coal train shipments from the Union Pacific Railroad, as well as the BNSF Railway.
Freight trains from the Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific, and the BNSF Railway pass over this railroad line daily. Canadian Pacific and BNSF Railway freight trains heading north over the former Milwaukee Road north line, travel this line to the interchange in Northbrook Illinois and proceed north.
The Canadian Pacific ex Milwaukee Road north line, is maintained to keep the section from Northbrook to Chicago Illinois almost exclusively Amtrak and Metra. Freight trains do occasionally operate on this section once in a great while, but run as extras. The Union Pacific freight only cut off line takes the freight trains of the former Milwaukee Road north line, operating south of Northbrook Illinois.
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