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Date Photographed

4 November 1998

Amtrak Hiawatha departing from Chicago Union Station, C&NW building sign, Metra scoots.

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Harold Kept many of his photos on sites which no longer exist.

Chicago Passenger Terminal (right) leads Metra 145 GM EMD F40PH-2 diesel-electric locomotive "City of Aurora" in a lite engine move out of the Chicago Passenger Terminal. An outbound scoot and a pair of locomotives running lite can be seen in the distance.

METX 130, METX 145, METX, GM EMD F40PH-2, Metra locomotives, Locomotives, photographed on 4 November 1998 at Chicago Passenger Terminal by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD7 digital camera [railfan/1998/11/98b04021.jpg] NEW 25 January 2000

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Metra numbers 128-149 were built by General Motors Electromotive Division for EMD order number 786293 in 1979-80, EMD model F40PH-2. Metra assigned them to the Union Pacific lines. [Courtesy of Metra Railfan Page]

METX 130, model F40PH-2, built November 1979, builder number 786293-3, named "Richard D. Newland," assigned to Metra/Union Pacific lines. [courtesy of Metra Locomotive Information, by Mike Azen, February 2000]

METX 130 is a 3,200 horsepower model F40PH-2, built between 1970 and 1989 by General Motors Electro Motive Division. [cou