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"Eddie's Railfan Page", wich comes to You from the city of Chicago Illinois USA. Seen here is an inbound Amtrak "Hiawatha Service" passenger train from Milwaukee Wisconsin, enroute to it's terminal destination at Chicago Union Station. This is on the Metra /CP Rail former Milwaukee Road "North Line", wich has commuter train service to Fox Lake Illinois. The locomotive seen here, is actually a Baggage car with a control cab. This was originally a late 1970's vintage EMD F-40PH passenger locomotive. At some time during the 1990's as their age was starting to show mechanically, Amtrak removed their diesel prime mover, and converted several of these veteran locomotives into cost saving Baggage Control Cab Cars to save time in terminal operations. On the other end of the train is a General Electric P-40 Genesis Series passenger diesel locomotive pushing the inbound Amtrak train to Chicago Illinois.
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