Does anybody know when CP 2816 is going to be coming through the Sturtevant area on thursday in route to Chicago? Thanks in advance.
This was posted in the General Discussion part
Aug 28 Out of MPS at 8:30 a.m. Due into Milwaukee 8 p.m. Aug. 29. Departing Milwaukee for Chicago at 10:30 a.m.
I’d try to be at Sturtevant between 10:15 and noon – cause you just never know!
And just to be complete this was also posted in the General Discussion:
the schedule for the Sat., Sun., and Mon. round-trips.
Dep: Franklin Park, 10 a.m. - Arr: Sturtevant, Noon
Dep: Sturtevant, 1:30 p.m. - Arr: Franklin Park, 4 p.m.
Dave Nelson
I’ll be riding the train Saturday on one of the Franklin Park trips. Sturtevant isn’t too terribly far from Milwaukee, so I agree with Dave that sometime between 10:15-10:30ish and noon it should be through. !0:30 may sound a bit early, but it is good to be on the safe side as schedules change.
Thanks for the info, next time I will use the search!! I’m also a newbie here.
Could anyone explain the route to me, i.e., how will the train travel between Franklin Park and Sturtevant? Looking for a good place to watch it go by not too far from Chicago
On the way up, they will be running up the freight line from Bensenville (the one that passes through tower A-20). Then it will travel up the C&M Sub to Sturtevant. At Sturtevant the train will be wyed then it will head south down the C&M Sub and then head down the Metra line that heads through Elmwood Park (the CP Elgin Sub) back to Franklin Park. The reason they are running different routes each way is to have the train facing west at the end of the day for the next day’s trip, avoiding the need to wye it again at Bensenville for the next day. I am thinking if you are going to see it, Rondout would be a good spot.
Does anyone know the plan for Tuesday?
Departure time, service stops…
thanks
Later Bill
Robby - thanks for the info. Got to see her at Tower A-20.
According to information I have that’s about a week old now, the plan was to leave Franklin Park at 0800 and run to La Crosse to layover for the night. They have an hour stop at Portage scheduled from 1230-1330, my guess is to meet Amtrak and do any maintenance, and possibly take on water and fuel. It’ll be interesting to see if they stay on schedule this time or not (on the way to Milwaukee they were early even).
Noah
OK, guys, on to the next big one – the Sept. 15 Minn.-LaCrosse round-trip doubleheader. We’re flying in from Rochester, NY, to visit family in Rosemount, and although I know “pacing” poses problems, that’s my only choice. Anybody have a sense of morning departure time (and from where)? I assume the route is ex-CB&Q down the east side of the river? Thanks for indulging a newcomer from afar – although a 50-plus-year TRAINS subscriber…
AlcoCountry
i would also like to know this as i probably wont be able to set up camp in winona until roughly 2:00 PM on 9/15. so i would like to know the times of departure to know where to go searching for the train
No, CP and Milwaukee engines stay on the “Milwaukee” side of the river!! It’s the same Milwaukee-then-SOO-now-CP mainline the Empire Builder uses from St. Paul…west bank of the river til crossing over at Hastings, then along the west bank for about three hours til crossing over to WI for the lunch at La Crosse.
I just checked with the Friends of 261 on the phone - they sent me the tickets OK but forgot the schedule!! According to the guy on that answered the phones, the train “blasts off” at 8:30 a.m. Starts at the 261’s home near “Minneapolis Junction”, just north of DT Minneapolis. 401 Harrison St. NE. if you want to google it. About one mile due north of where the 35W bridge used to be.
I live in Cottage Grove and work in DT St.Paul so I take highways 10/61 every day to and from work, it follows the CP and BNSF mainlines, might be good for some pacing. I’ve actually seen 261 coming by Pig’s Eye yard there - wasn’t expecting it, just happened to be at the right place at the right time…no camera though!!
any idea when they will be leaving lacrosse headed back to Minneapolis?
i need to know if i have any chance of catching them on their return trip. due to my job and all
Lord Atmo, why do you have a Autobot logo on a CNW SD40, and why is does the UP SD60 have its headlights and windows shot out?
Here is the routing for the next two trips
Tommorow: The train will depart Soreham and head through New Brighton, Osceola, and head for Dresser before heading back to Shoreham through the same locations.
September 15th - Steam doubleheader!: The train will agagin be departing Shoreham, but will head the other way through St. Paul past Dayton’s Bluff and Pigs Eye, then head down the Mississppi to the La Crosse/La Cresant area, then head back through the same points.
I don’t have any times for these trips as that information hasn’t been easy to come across.
Thank you so much! Memo to Friends of the 261 – we promise to observe the safety rules about “pacing”… better to camp out ahead at good locations, rather than race along highways. Again, thanks. Both engines are previous acquiantances: 2816 for years at nearby Steamtown (prettiest engine there, I always thought); and 261 when it visited there. And if you grew up with NYC Niagaras as I did, 261 looks pretty familiar…
that’s an SD40-2, not an SD40. and the purpose is because in the transformers movie, none of the robots turned into trains. and that image is so far the closest thing we’ve gotten for a “trainformer”
second off, that’s an SD60M, not an SD60. it’s a pet peeve of mine when people call SD60Ms or SD60Fs SD60s. they may be from the SD60 series, but only the spartan cab hood unit is an SD60. they all have the same innards, but so do GP60s. and certainly nobody calls those SD60s. anyway, the purpose of that image is i put a face on the unit. because that’s how i see them.
on topic: so no times at all? bummer. i’ll have to guzzle more gas and just go to Lacrosse to see them
If I get any info on the times for the doubleheader I’ll post them here. Hopefully everything went well with the trip today, which I beleive from what I’ve heard had 2816 on it after all, which really is the engine I’d rather have as 261 runs up in the twin cities every year. I hope for the doubleheader they put 2816 in front of 261.
2816 will be running to Dresser tommorow. It ran to Glenwood today.
Wish I could help more on the schedule for the 15th, but I was apparently the only ticketbuyer not sent an itinerary. I did get two maps though. [;)]
Leaving MPLS at 8:30 a.m. should get us into LaCrosse/LaCrescent about noon-1PM, which would seem to be confirmed by them having a barbeque lunch there. So I’m guessing we start going back north around 1:30-2PM and should get back to MPLS maybe 5:30-6PM??