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Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Thursday, July 20, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E SD90MAC #5707 just had its patch renumbering done and has been released into service. CIT SD60s AT WORK: The following CIT SD60s are now in service on the KCC&E: CEFX 6003, 6004,...

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E SD90MAC #5709 just had its patch renumbering completed at Chicago, and has been released into service. As well, the Chicago Shops is almost done with patch renumbering for KCC&E #...

Amtrak Consists at Chesterton

Amtrak #29 - Capitol Limited: 8:25 AM CDT
AMTK P42DC 138
AMTK P42DC 23
- Running an hour late

Amtrak #49 - Lake Shore Limited: 10:08 AM CDT
AMTK P42DC 104
AMTK P42DC 113
- Running an hour and 30 minutes late

Amtrak 29 WB past Chesterton @ 8:49 AM CDT

P42DC's #89 and #46 for power

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Sunday, July 16, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY MORE LEASERS: Three CIT SD60’s will be joining the lease fleet soon. The KCC&E has decided to lease them for the fall traffic surge. These units are CEFX 6003, 6004, and 6010. All units were previously ...

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Saturday, July 15, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY MORE CSX TRAFFIC: CSX has abolished more trains and ridded themselves of much of their traffic. The KCC&E has picked this traffic up, and will likely require more power for these trains. STORMS: More ...

NS 20N-13 EB past Chesterton @ 11:03 AM CDT

CSXT ES40DC 5279 leading solo, first time for me seeing CSX power on this train.

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Thursday, July 13, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY Only one thing to note for today: SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E #5701 is the only SD90MAC that will receive KCC&E paint as of right now. It is currently in the process of being painted and readied for service...

Union Pacific C40-8 #9101 was caught leading the Z-CHNY today out of Chicago. Three other engines were trailing: KCC&E ES44DCs #4582 and #4677, and SD70M #4410. UP 9101 is one of the many 1990's-built Union Pacific engines repaying horsepower-hours to the KCC&E. They need to repay a bunch of them to...

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY SEVERE WEATHER: Severe thunderstorms have been threatening the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio on Monday. These storms have affected service in the region. There are precautions train crews are r...

NS 20N-10 EB past Chesterton @ 10:30 AM CDT

NS ES44DC #7598 leading solo

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Monday, July 10, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY ENGINE FIRE: Sunday’s M-EVIN (Evansville to Indianapolis) had a big issue. The lead unit, KCC&E AC4400CW #148, had a severe engine fire while trying to depart with the 200-car load. The trailing units w...

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Sunday, July 9, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY UNION PACIFIC HORSEPOWER-HOUR REPAYMENT: As of 12:00 AM EDT, all of the Union Pacific locomotives that were re-activated to repay horsepower-hours to the KCC&E have arrived on property. The last few unit...

NS 20N EB past Chesterton @ 13:15 CDT

UP C44ACCTE #6019 leading solo

20N was running later than usual today.

Some notable trains at Chesterton this morning: NS 61C WB at 10:56 AM CDT with NS C40-8W #8362 and NS C44-9W #9286 EB Mixed Freight at 10:35 AM CDT with NS ES44DC #7666, NS "Monongahela" ES44AC #8025, CP AC4400CW #8649, and NS SD60I #6756 EB CP Mixed Freight at 7:01 AM CDT with CP ES44AC Pair #8889 ...

NS B09-07 WB past Chesterton @ 11:30 PM CDT

NS SD40E #6343 and SD60M #6792 for power, with great EMD sounds

The train got on main 2 at CP 482

Seen on Chesterton webcam

Chesterton Morning Amtrak Report (Times in Central) WB Lake Shore Limited: 10:46 - Amtrak #49 AMTK 109 (P42DC) - Phase V AMTK 14 (P42DC) - Phase V AMTK 153 (P42DC) - Phase V - Running a little over two hours late WB Capitol Limited: 10:54 - Amtrak #29 AMTK 12 (P42DC) - Phase V AMTK 82 (P42DC) - Phas...

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Friday, July 7, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY UNION PACIFIC HORSEPOWER-HOUR REPAYMENT: Union Pacific has re-activated many older locomotives to send to the KCC&E for horsepower-hour repayment. These include: Dash 8-40C: 9101, 9107, 9125, 9163, 9200,...

NS 20N-06 past Chesterton @ 10:38 AM CDT

UP SD70M #4805 leading solo with a nice K3 horn

Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Thursday, July 6, 2017 FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY TWO MORE SD90MACs RELEASED: KCCE 5703 and 5708 have been released for service, still in CP Beaver paint with a KCC&E Green/Yellow number patch. KCCE 5700 returned to Chicago Thursday afternoon as the l...