This struck me as quite apt, two pictures I call "Sunrise on The Lake Shore".

Just before 6 am local



Then about 20 minutes later



I'll leave you to work it out :-)

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Word is that #6 arriving Chicago today has two new ACS-64s. Currently running about 4 hours late; if it holds to that, it should arrive Chicago a bit after 6pm local.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Word is that #6 arriving Chicago today has two new ACS-64s. Currently running about 4 hours late; if it holds to that, it should arrive Chicago a bit after 6pm local.

Oh great, I would like to see that !!

Looking at Amtrak "track a train" it says 4 hrs 19 min currently, ETA at CHI is 6:44 local, and it has been slipping back so I expect nearer 7pm, that is 1am here and I have an early start tomorrow.

Have to see how it goes!!

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Word is that #6 arriving Chicago today has two new ACS-64s. Currently running about 4 hours late; if it holds to that, it should arrive Chicago a bit after 6pm local.

Oh great, I would like to see that !!

Looking at Amtrak "track a train" it says 4 hrs 19 min currently, ETA at CHI is 6:44 local, and it has been slipping back so I expect nearer 7pm, that is 1am here and I have an early start tomorrow.

Have to see how it goes!!

GBB at 4:10 would put it here at NPV at about 6:10, and figure about half an hour past that to CHI. However, it looks like it may have lost more time, since it hasn't gotten to PCT yet.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

This is a big holiday weekend in the US, including at IRM. There are several web cams so you can catch lots of action.

If she's ready, Frisco 1630 will run all three days, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do demonstrations of picking up mailbags on the fly with the RPO car. (If 1630 doesn't run, there will be a diesel. The last couple weeks it's been BN 5383, but they might go for something more exotic.)

There will also be a 2-car interurban train each day (CA&E Saturday and Monday, North Shore Sunday), as well as 2-car Chicago L trains on the mainline and the 50th Ave. shuttle. I will be working the wood L cars on Sunday.

Also, the Nebraska Zephyr will run dinner trains Saturday evening, all day and dinner train Sunday, and all day Monday.

(If I'm going to keep doing stuff there every week, I need to lose some weight and see a podiatrist. My knee still hurts from last Sunday and me feet still hurt from last season.)

Sunday was cloudy all day, with a bit of rain in the morning and more mid-afternoon. However, late in the day the clouds cleared somewhat and it became a pleasant evening -- after almost everyone had left!

1630 passed its steam test on Wednesday and did indeed run this weekend. Her first trip was at 12:15, which complicated everything else at the station with not only two electric trains but also the Zephyr working off of station track 1. When 1630 finally did get going, it took a couple of cycles to get the trains in order so it and the Zephyr weren't both at the station at the same time. No sooner did that happen than 1630 had a brake problem with its water car and screwed everything up again!

Twice, the dispatcher sent the other L train down to Jefferson St. and ran us into 50th Ave. because the Zephyr was taking up the entire length of track 1. Both times, our trolley pole went the wrong way and I had to fix it. I didn't like hanging out the back end of 1797 because there's nothing solid to hold onto.

I also decided climbing on and off L cars without benefit of external stairs (or the L platform at 50th Ave.) is not a good idea for my knees. I did considerable walking because of that, a lot more than I normally like to.

Because of 1630's brake problem and the rain, the dispatcher sent us to bed early and my friend Mike never got to ride with me. He's never ridden those cars, either.

I spent all of Saturday and a good bit of today resting my feet and knee. I think I will try to see a podiatrist next week. The next two Sundays, I'm doing conductor training on the coach train.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Word is that #6 arriving Chicago today has two new ACS-64s. Currently running about 4 hours late; if it holds to that, it should arrive Chicago a bit after 6pm local.

Oh great, I would like to see that !!

Looking at Amtrak "track a train" it says 4 hrs 19 min currently, ETA at CHI is 6:44 local, and it has been slipping back so I expect nearer 7pm, that is 1am here and I have an early start tomorrow.

Have to see how it goes!!

GBB at 4:10 would put it here at NPV at about 6:10, and figure about half an hour past that to CHI. However, it looks like it may have lost more time, since it hasn't gotten to PCT yet.

The tracker shows it past PCT, but it hasn't posted a time for the stop there yet.

My new guess is 6:30 here and 7ish into CHI.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Well went past the camera at 7:01 local




Now I am off to bed!!

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Well went past the camera at 7:01 local

With the sun low enough in the sky to be on the north side of it.

Now I am off to bed!!

I don't blame you.

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Have you seen the pictures of 642 since it was painted at Beech Grove?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Have you seen the pictures of 642 since it was painted at Beech Grove?

I actually saw it the when it was brought from Beech Grove to Chicago.

However it was just a few days after the Amtrak 188 crash and I did not post it then

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Have you seen the pictures of 642 since it was painted at Beech Grove?

I actually saw it the when it was brought from Beech Grove to Chicago.

However it was just a few days after the Amtrak 188 crash and I did not post it then

Oh, okay. I wouldn't have expected it to get wyed.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Boffins silently track train commuters without tripping Android checks

Smartmobe accelerometer data reveals your movements, isn't secured in any way.

Nanjing University boffins Jingyu Hua, Zhenyu Shen, and Sheng Zhong have tracked commuter train trips with 92 percent accuracy using stolen phone accelerometer data.

The trio says tracking users on Android phones is possible in part because the platform does not require permission or consent to access the dataset. Here's the nub of their findings:

"We believe this finding is especially threatening for three reasons. First … it is extremely easy for attackers to create stealthy malware to eavesdrop on the accelerometer. Second, metro is the preferred transportation means for most people in major cities [which] means a malware based on this finding can affect a huge population. Last and the most importantly, metro-riding traces can be used to further infer a lot of other private information. For example, if an attacker can trace a smartphone user for a few days, he may be able to infer the user’s daily schedule and living and working areas, and thus seriously threaten her physical security."

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Two things:

1. Bernie, did you catch #6 today? It had only one engine, and its first coach was wrapped for some attraction in San Francisco. I happened to see it go by as I was going for a haircut, but I didn't get a good look at it. I read somewhere about the wrap, but I don't remember the details.

2. Somebody at IRM mounted a GoPro on (apparently) the frame of one of the trucks (bogies) under the Nebraska Zephyr and recorded a trip looking at a wheelset and related parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IgePMTDuxY You can see the brakes applying and releasing, the wheels going up and down in relation to the truck, and the whole truck moving in relation to the cars riding on it. I need to look at it for a third time, and maybe fourth and fifth, to figure out which track it's on as it starts, but later I clearly figured out the switches at both ends of Johnson Siding, then Seeman Road, then the switch at Four Mile Siding.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Two things:

1. Bernie, did you catch #6 today? It had only one engine, and its first coach was wrapped for some attraction in San Francisco. I happened to see it go by as I was going for a haircut, but I didn't get a good look at it. I read somewhere about the wrap, but I don't remember the details.

Yes I noticed that, a rather tatty 118



It left Chicago on the 22nd with 199.

Also the wrap is the same car that first appeared on the 6 that arrived on the 3rd (coach baggage 31017) and was used on the yard excursion train for Train Day at Chicago on the 9th.

Since then it has been going back and forth on the California Zephyr



The phrase on the orange band is "Never the same always San Francisco - Always"

As far as I can make out .

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Something a little different

Quite often on a Thursday afternoon a young railfan spends a few hours by the Chesterton crossing, he seems quite "keen".

Today when he spotted this in the approaching consist he didn't really seem to know quite where to stand to get the best picture. (he is in the foreground)



SOO 6053, an SD60. The SOO line was taken over by Canadian Pacific in 1990 and fully consolidated in the early 2000's so these locos are extremely rare.

And our young railfan was suitably pleased.



Nice to see the enthusiasm.

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Clearly He's too close for good pics, the camera behind Him gets great pics. Nice find Bernie.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Not nessecerally. He could have been shooting video.
And some smart phones have a panoramic feature that allows you to pan the phone and the pictures turn out great. If that was the case he didnt have to move the camera, The train moved instead.
Of course this is all conjecture on my part. But He sure did look like he enjoyed himself. And thats all that really matters:)

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Old James

Not nessecerally. He could have been shooting video.
And some smart phones have a panoramic feature that allows you to pan the phone and the pictures turn out great. If that was the case he didnt have to move the camera, The train moved instead.
Of course this is all conjecture on my part. But He sure did look like he enjoyed himself. And thats all that really matters:)

And I, for one, am thoroughly enjoying what Bernie and David share here. Thanks much.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Not nessecerally. He could have been shooting video.
And some smart phones have a panoramic feature that allows you to pan the phone and the pictures turn out great. If that was the case he didnt have to move the camera, The train moved instead.
Of course this is all conjecture on my part. But He sure did look like he enjoyed himself. And thats all that really matters:)

And I, for one, am thoroughly enjoying what Bernie and David share here. Thanks much.

+1 !!

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Google finds lots of cab shots of North American engines. Keep in mind that each owner can have very different cab layouts, some are going for "glass cockpits" these days. Still looking for the rest of the interior. Here is an F40.

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This is the best I've found so far Chris, even if it is a little out of date.

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