CRI&P 2, Englewood Union Station Editors Pick! Contributor's Pick!       
An EMD intercity failure ends its days at age 10 downgraded to commuter service, not a good application of a train with few and norrow doors. There are actually three additional RI trains in the distance in this picture.
Date: 4/21/1965 Location: Chicago, IL   Map Show Chicago on a rail map Views: 3078 Collection Of:   Chad Malinovsky
Locomotives: CRIP 2(LWT-12)    Author:  Marty Bernard
CRI&P 2, Englewood Union Station
Picture Categories: This picture is part of album:  11 November 2006 Goin to Trainfest
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Kurt Clark General Now THAT'S the good stuff! 2/17/2007 10:36:13 AM
Marty Bernard General Tim, thanks for the Editor's Choice on this one. 2/20/2007 8:09:13 AM
Gregg Bartley General I'm sorry, but this reminds me of a 1954 Chevy, for some reason. 2/20/2007 1:45:11 PM
Zach Pumphery General GM's auto and locomotive design people both worked on this thing about that time, so maybe that's why. 2/20/2007 11:47:50 PM
Marty Bernard General It looks like an Edsel on hemroides to me. Zach, they were working on it a decade earlier and this failure is the result. See: http://www.carofthecentury.com/the_aerotrain.htm 2/21/2007 8:03:32 AM
David Cenci General Nice..and btw..I see 4 trains in this pic. 5/17/2007 2:07:38 PM
Andre Wehrle General Nice, hard to think of this as ever having existed outside NRM at GB! 12/12/2008 4:45:32 AM
Stu Slaymaker General Fabulous shot. I rode it once, but by the time I got a decent camera, it was out of service. 4/6/2011 1:29:55 AM
Mike Maskel General looks like a space ship 4/8/2011 5:42:10 PM
L Beckman General For the record, the bridge in the far background is the Englewood line of the CTA "L". 2/1/2012 10:05:40 PM
Dale Schmeisser General Great Pic. When I rode it after it went into commuter service I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Later I learned why the design was never successful, which explained why as an 11 year old I was bouncing all over the seat when it was at high speed. 1/31/2015 3:19:06 PM

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