by 57603oh
Hi all,
My name's Dan and I'm from England. I've been railfanning on and off over here over the last year spending time seeing friends etc, and yesterday we went over to bellevue OH for a couple of hours. During that time we saw a freight come in from the west with dash 9 CN #2684 heading with Illinios central SD70 #1029 and a couple more NS units. I looked on the nsdash9 website and theres nothing there about NS hire locos at the moment, I assume nothing is on long term hire right now? My questions are, is it normal for a Canadian national locomotive to come this far into the states and are Illinois central a current operation railroad company, as I've never seen them before. To be honest at first i thought i was seeing a heritage livery, but just generally burmused by the two loco's. Thanks to anyone who can help.
My name's Dan and I'm from England. I've been railfanning on and off over here over the last year spending time seeing friends etc, and yesterday we went over to bellevue OH for a couple of hours. During that time we saw a freight come in from the west with dash 9 CN #2684 heading with Illinios central SD70 #1029 and a couple more NS units. I looked on the nsdash9 website and theres nothing there about NS hire locos at the moment, I assume nothing is on long term hire right now? My questions are, is it normal for a Canadian national locomotive to come this far into the states and are Illinois central a current operation railroad company, as I've never seen them before. To be honest at first i thought i was seeing a heritage livery, but just generally burmused by the two loco's. Thanks to anyone who can help.