Nice video of railfanning in Chicago, Illinois on 16 Apri8l 2024, Frank! I am going to take a guess the Union Pacific train #YN06 is a local that runs out of the Union Pacific (former Chicago & North Western rail yard just north of North Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The crew appears to be pulling an empty boxcar out of the Chicago Tribune's printing plant. The rest of the video of the Union Pacific switch crew portion of the video shows the crew returning to North Avenue Yard. The next sequence looks like you were at the Western Avenue Metra Station on the BNSF Metra Line. The Union Pacific double stack train is coming out of Global One. You caught the Amtrak trains coming out of the south end of Union Station in the area where the Amtrak facilities are located. The last Amtrak train was coming off the 21st Street lift bridge across the South Branch of the Chicago River. Canadian National train #L537 was eastbound heading to the 16th Street crossing after passing under the Dan Ryan Expressway. Are you sure that this train is Canadian National train #L53791? That train number is assigned to a Canadiana National local that runs between Kirk Yard in Gary, Indiana with a stop to work Markham Yard in Homewood, Illinois and terminates at Glenn Yard in Chicago, Illinois. This train looks like it is heading eastbound rather than westbound. Also, this train is on duty at 16:00 at Kirk Yard. That would mean that the train arrives at Glenn Yard after dark. The direction and size of this train gives me the impression that it may be the daily Iowa Division train that originates in Waterloo, Iowa and terminates in Markham Yard.
