Lake Forest Railfanning

Lake Forest Railfanning

Recorded on 6/8/16

I made another trip to Lake Forest train station with Jacob Brugioni and Branden Phillips to catch the Amtrak Empire Builder that consisted the Milwaukee Road coaches. In my opinion, they are my favorite passenger coaches that are still in operation today. Out of all the operating coaches, I love the Milwaukee Road Cedar Rapids Observation car because of the unique trailing light. This is not my first time seeing the Milwaukee Road coaches but it was great to see my favorite coaches again. Unfortunately, Amtrak Empire Builder 8 was running over six hours behind schedule. I arrived at noon to catch it in time. It didn’t take long to find out it was behind schedule. We were all disappointed we couldn’t catch it. But we saw some trains today while trying to catch Amtrak Empire Builder 8. Once again, it was hard to pick the Highlight of the Day.

1. Norfolk Southern-CSX Manifest
2. Inbound Metra*
3. Outbound Metra*
4. Amtrak Hiawatha*
5. Amtrak Hiawatha*
6. Inbound Metra*
7. Outbound Metra
8. Amtrak Empire Builder*
9. Norfolk Southern-Canadian Pacific Manifest
10. Inbound Metra*
11. Outbound Metra
12. Amtrak Hiawatha
13. Amtrak Hiawatha**
14. Inbound Metra
15. Outbound Metra*
16. Inbound Metra*
17. Outbound Metra*
18. Outbound Metra*
19. Amtrak Hiawatha*
20. Outbound Metra
21. Outbound Metra
22. Outbound Metra*
23. Outbound Metra (Doubleheader)*
24. Amtrak Hiawatha
25. Outbound Metra*

*Hornshow

Highlight of the Day:

19. Amtrak Hiawatha*