Lake Forest Railfanning: Black Friday Edition

Lake Forest Railfanning: Black Friday Edition

Recorded 11/25/16

I was in town for the Thanksgiving holiday so I decided to make time for some railfanning. I returned to Lake Forest station with Jacob Brugioni on Black Friday since I didn’t want to deal with all of the shopping chaos. It was cold and windy. So windy in fact that when I first saw Amtrak 90221 Veterans Unit, my Amtrak hat that I usually wear when railfanning, blew off my head and briefly got caught underneath the 70+ MPH moving Amtrak Hiawatha. As a result, my Amtrak hat got sent to heaven since it was split in half. On the other hand, the day must go on. It was nice seeing a variety of Amtrak trains and Metra trains including freight trains.

1. Inbound Metra*
2. Inbound Metra
3. Inbound Metra
4. Amtrak Hiawatha
5. Inbound Metra (Express)
6. Inbound Metra
7. Amtrak Hiawatha*
8. Inbound Metra (Express)*
9. Inbound Metra*
10. Outbound Metra
11. Inbound Metra*
12. Outbound Metra*
13. Inbound Metra*
14. Inbound Metra*
15. Canadian Pacific-CSX Manifest
16. Outbound Metra*
17. Amtrak Hiawatha*
18. Amtrak Hiawatha*
19. Inbound Metra*
20. Canadian Pacific Crude Oil
21. Outbound Metra*
22. Canadian Pacific Intermodal
23. Norfolk Southern Manifest
24. Inbound Metra
25. Outbound Metra*
26. Union Pacific-Kansas City Southern Grain Consist
27. Canadian Pacific Manifest
28. Amtrak Hiawatha*
29. Inbound Metra
30. Outbound Metra*
31. Canadian Pacific Autorack-Intermodal
32. Amtrak Hiawatha
33. Canadian Pacific Manifest
34. Inbound Metra*
35. Outbound Metra*
36. Inbound Metra*
37. Outbound Metra
38. Canadian Pacific-CSX Manifest
39. Amtrak Hiawatha*
40. Amtrak Hiawatha*
41. Inbound Metra*
42. Outbound Metra*
43. Amtrak Empire Builder
44. Amtrak Empire Builder
45. Inbound Metra
46. Outbound Metra*
47. Amtrak Hiawatha*
48. Amtrak Hiawatha*
49. Inbound Metra*
50. Canadian Pacific-BNSF-CSX Crude Oil
51. Outbound Metra

*Hornshow

Highlight of the Day

12. Outbound Metra