Soo/CP, UP, NS & Metra Action at Kilbourn Ave, Chicago, 18.10.12

Some noontime action on an overcast day at and around Kilbourn Avenue on the West Side of Chicago. Canadian Pacific (Soo Line power), Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and Metra are all represented here. This location is where the Belt Railway of Chicago north-south main passes over UP's ex-CNW triple track, the Geneva Sub (Metra's UP-West Line). On the Geneva Sub just east of here is the UP / Metra engine shop- there is also a small freight yard behind it, which serves local industries. The UP switch job responsible for this is seen a few times in this video. Train descriptions following:
Train 1:
Seen overhead from the Cicero station on the CTA Green Line 'L', Soo Line GP38-2s #4413 and 4443 lead a CP transfer from Clearing Yard north on the Belt towards Bensenville Yard.
Train 2:
After dropping off passengers at the employee-only stop at Keeler Ave, an outbound Metra UP-West Line train continues towards Oak Park and the western suburbs. F40PH-2 #142, the 'Ravinia', leads four bilevels west.
Train 3:
Creeping through the locomotive facility, passing five F40PHs awaiting the evening rush, UP GP15 Y729 heads for the industrial area to the north of the shops with a short string of cars. After dropping off a few, several minutes later it returns with its short train and runs around it in order to ease switching on the other end of the shops.
Train 4:
NS SD70M-2 #2678 and C40-9W #9857 get a relatively short manifest moving east, heading for Rockwell / Kedzie Interlocking, where they'll access the joint UP / CSX (B&OCT) main, eventually ending up at either Ashland Avenue Yard or possibly Calumet via 80th St and Pullman Jct.
Train 5:
Metra F40PH-2 #162, the 'Village of Elburn' leads the seven-car, outbound UP-West Line train #33, which includes ex-C&NW/RTA Pullman bilevel #7794.
~Thanks for watching!~

[@Freighttrains]

That union pacific short freight has a boxcar that is far from home. It has an AGR. That stands for Alabama & Gulf Coast Railroad. Nice catch on all of the trains in this video.

[@blackdiamondexpress1889]

killbourne ave is really underated....cool video

[@DjFreemode]

its actually an sd70m-2.

[@davidn6124]

Awesome video!!!👍

[@RailfanningRulez]

When I was there I didnt think that spur track ever got used

[@e4437]

Great video. This is the first time I have seen video from the area and also I live in the area. If you're going to post more from that location please be careful.

[@CRPULSE300]

You can see some Mopac blue showing through the faded hood stripes on the 729

[@BossSpringsteen69]

I'm not so sure that is MoPac blue. I've seen what looks like a primer or something under a few non MoPac units. I was thinking the same thing because i was working on a non MoPac SD40-2 up close and wasn't sure what i was seeing.

[@SuperDuckman24]

that would explain that ACE

[@uhlijohn]

Wish I had a dollar for every time I sat behind the throttle of UPY729! For the life of me I can't figure out what that job was doing! All the industry had pulled out of the area years before 2012. 40th St. used to be a hopping place but when the CNW closed that yard way back in the late 1970's or early 1980's all the work dried up in that vicinity. Eventually the Cragin line was cut and did not go north of the old Milwaukee RR. I think there may have been some team tracks for unloading tank and lumber cars left at 40th St. but no industries per se.....

[@SuperDuckman24]

First time i've ever heard matra blow there horn! LOL

[@Chris-xc5lg]

729 use to go by my house all the time in Orange County CA

[@dwkcamman611]

AWESOME!!!

[@Nachtwolf1]

Yes.

[@Nachtwolf1]

They look the same, but SD70M-2s use DC traction motors, whereas SD70ACes use AC motors.

[@RailfanningRulez]

Exactly where I shot NS' CNJ Heritage Unit

[@SuperDuckman24]

SD70ACE Power! Yeah buddy!

[@smarshall8855]

+ SuperDuckMan 64 thats an sd70m-2

[@SuperDuckman24]

Arent there the same?

[@rythym2347]

What day of the week is this video taken & what time of the day?

[@dwkcamman611]

That spot where 142 blew the horn, do they always blow the horn through that spot???

[@WorldWideOfTrainsAndTrucks]

Yes horn is always required

[@JTTheRailfan]

metra 142 sounds like an old conrail horn.

[@DowntownWithBrown]

Didn't Conrail have a lot of RS3Ls?

[@CRPULSE300]

Conrail used the RS3L. The metra unit has a P5, which was also used by the Southern Rwy

[@MrJimmybgood]

what does soo line railroad stand for. thank for any feedback. have a great day.

[@davidbarnett9312]

+James Finborg Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad (MStP&SSM), which was commonly known as the Soo Line after the phonetic spelling of Sault, it was formed in 1961 by the consolidation of that company with two other CP subsidiaries, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad and Wisconsin Central Railroad. I didn't know myself, so I checked it out. Saw a SOO engine at the BNSF engine shed in Temple, Tx last year.

[@MrJimmybgood]

+David Barnett thank you david, this is a big help for me. have a good weekend.

[@erbewayne6868]

Also known as the dollar line years ago. Connection with DSS&A

[@RailfanningRulez]

M-NPEL at 12:30