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| Last updated on August 7, 2025
A Burlington Route switcher prepares to move several baggage-express cars at the Railway Express terminal near Chicago’s Union Station in 1961. In the foreground, a Pennsy switcher moves motive power — two E8As and an E7B — for a train into position at the station.
J. David Ingles photo
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I assume that the CBQ did some switching for the PRR in Chicago. Did the PRR engine crew have a PRR switcher handle the locomotives into CUS?
Ed Burns