Uploaded April 2010 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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The line was dead for one hour after the V CHCALT train passed. Right as I'm about to leave I hear an RS3K and decide to stay. Sure enough, Road Switcher 452 buckles to Peperidge Farm, as well me. Seeing 452 on the main by the time I got to Belmont I decided to stay at Belmont. Turns out I could have biked to and from Fairview a few times before the train departed back west. While at Fairview a coal train and light unit move pass east, and a very important CHCSTP west. CHCSTP's lead engine crapped out in Lisle, so 452 was sent to rescue it. I found it funny that they used 452's entire train instead of having the GE light unit move that passed by only 10 minutes before to retrieve the bad engine. So back to Lisle I go, MP 26, where the light unit move, a Metra 452, and the amputee'd CHCSTP bust a nut as they fly down the main.

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