Sol: I've seen cow-and-calf lashups, a cabless unit called a slug, but this is my first goat. What's the difference? Does the goat have anything more than traction drives? What sort of control circuitry does it have? Or are all controls in the "mother" unit? Sorry for the mess of questions. Thanks in advance.

My wife managed a funeral home in that area. We're both licensed. I did calls for that firm. Sometimes, funeral procession s were held up because of the trains. I still enjoy train watching.

I prefer a few doobs and a ice cold beer!😜

There used to be another line there too,the former PRR panhandle line.

Blue Island sees traffic mostly from CSX and NS then IHB and ISIS being the least but one of the railways i believe is the same in Dolton, same tracks

thats right out of Bar yard

Or replacing some of those diamonds and delaying trains for 12 hours or more,then coming back to see the backup traffic.

Werner Siever

it is a dummy they usually use them just for the extra traction because they do have 4 traction motors but no diesel engine

I have been there twice and both times I never had to wait more than ten minutes for a train to come by. For a safe and great spot to watch there is a parking lot in front of the police station. Defiantly go if you get the chance!

Ok cool. I plan on it for next year hopefully

jørgen jensen molten slag from steal making if I remember correctly

Dan Fitzgerald Thank you. It seems busy there.

Those aren't tank cars those are Torpedo or called "bottle" Hot metal cars used to carry molten steel.

EMDSD14R Thank you. I've never seen those types of rolling stock, so 'tank' car is all I could come up with.

David Barnett Oh anytime always glad to help. I understand and indeed I understand why you asked if it was. I have those cars in my collection and I live not to far from a Steel Mill. The cars in this video are 200 ton cars. I am pretty sure they are 200 tons. They are used to carry the molten steel to the Riverdale Basic Oxygen furnace plant. They are called Treadwell Riverdale cars. I have a tape with these cars before they got the red painted ends in Conrail days. :-)

Railfans are generally well tolerated here as long as you DO NOT TRESSPASS. Stay in the police station parking lot or elsewhere on public property and you will be fine. There is a lot of railroad employee activity in this area.

MBTA & More Productions what the hell are you talking about?....

It's an SD40-3, Custom made by CSX to replace SD40-2's

jeff kimbro What?

I figured it out its a handbrake

jeff kimbro But what rod?

***** I haven't figured that out yet

+jeff kimbro It's called a brake stick.

that is the new sd40-3 recently purchased from emd for csx a very costly locomotive.it is related to the emd family such as sd40-2 sd40 and so on