RailPictures.Net Photo: CSDX 1 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago EMD SW1 at McCook, Illinois by Marc Glucksman/River Rail Photo
How Far Has This Engine Gone In Its Life? Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago CSDX 1 (SW1, EMD, 7/1952) was hauling a string of loads from the processing plant to "the fields” in Willow Springs when it passed the very low water level at McCook Reservoir near the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal in McCook, Illinois on August 29, 2022. This weekday run may have 1 or 2 engines and may make 1 trip or 2, but regularly moves processed waste from that is reclaimed from water to disposal. Since being built at the EMD facility in McCook, Illinois (whose mailing address is in LaGrange, IL) in 1952, CSDX 1 has worked only for the Water Reclamation District - could it be the engine that holds the record for traveling the most miles in its life within the fewest miles from its birthplace?
