Baretable Train
After seeing reports of these trains for several years, I finally caught one. Monday morning, I received a headsup that Union Pacific was running a northbound baretable train ("baretable" is railroad industry lingo for empty intermodal cars) on its Peoria Subdivision. Union Pacific train ILMG3R-04 originated somwhere south of St. Louis and was destined to Global 3 at Rochelle, Illinois. The Peoria Sub was a convenient route for this movement. Lone SD70M 4424 leads 100 empty intermodal well cars past Milepost 59, which is the north end of Edelstein Siding. - David P. Jordan