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	Veterans’ Association of the Chicago & North Western Railway

	*Organized December 9, 1924*

2010 Operation Life Saver Train
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The 2010 Operation Life Saver train made several trips between August 20^th and August 24^th. On Friday, August 20^th, the train started at the West Chicago Yard Office carrying various city officials, school principals and police & fire department personnel to the Illinois Railway Museum where the Union Pacific provided lunch. The E9’s were originally scheduled to haul the train but due to unforeseen circumstances they could not be used. Instead, the 1995 - the C&NW Heritage Unit, and the 2010 - the Boy Scout engine, were used. On Saturday and Sunday, the train made two trips on each day with employees and Boy & Cub Scouts non-stop to Garden Prairie. A number of Union Pacific coffee cups were raffled off on each trip. Fire & police department personnel and city officials rode the train Monday from CPT to Harvard and return. Stops were made at Park Ridge, Barrington and Crystal Lake. Finally on Tuesday, August 24^th, a similar complement of passengers rode the train from CPT to Kenosha and return. Mark Llanuza was on board during all of these trips and sends us these photos. The pictures are located here and they are in a different format. Clicking on the link will take you to a page of small photos, or thumbnails, as they are called. Click on a thumbnail to bring up a larger photo. There is a navigation bar at the top of these pages, allowing you to move from one picture to another. Or, use the arrows at the top-right corner. To return to the page of small photos from any large photo, click on the icon in the small circle to the left of the header bar at the top of any large photo page. To return to the web site main page from the small photo page, click on the icon in the small circle to the left of the header bar at the top of small photo page. Thanks Mark!

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