Chicago Glow Ride, Trains, and DOTS!

"Mercedes Streeter" (smart) 07/30/2019 at 16:51 • Filed to: None

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My best summer ever keeps bringing smiles and wonderful vehicles to gawk at, plus my secret beach!

Apparently Canadian National is celebrating 100 years. The engineer driving this beauty tossed some sort of souvenir to the kid railfan that filmed as she got this train rolling.

This California Special was has an awesome pearl orange/purple wrap.

This license plate placement

And a couple pics from the absolutely massive Chicago Glow Ride on Saturday. I think 1,000 bikes showed up. My Goldwing was definitely the oldest thing there!

Yes, that chunky thing is a Boss Hoss. It’s actually surprisingly easy to ride despite its sheer girth! The owner’s friend mistook me for a sex worker and I got into a crazy bad situation that took a very unexpected turn for the better. But that’s a story for The Cigar Lounge..

Just Jeepin' > Mercedes Streeter 07/30/2019 at 17:30

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You’re lucky no one got ticketed or shot!

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/the-dumbest-police-force-in-north-america-a-rant-1836816637

Mercedes Streeter > Just Jeepin' 07/30/2019 at 17:40

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Muahahahaha! I’ve seen CN’s police force maybe twice. The local Metra police have a greater presence than CN. Although now I wonder if Metra police ever pulls anyone over for speeding.

We did really REALLY piss off Chicago Police. They took offense to the Chicago Glow Ride’s choice of parking lot. I counted no less than ten police cars, two fire trucks, and one ambulance showing up to kick everyone out.

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 07/30/2019 at 22:05

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I was half tempted to show up at the Glow ride on my Zuma. I had a family thing to tend to though.

Oh, speaking of trains, we got to see the UP's Big Boy steam engine chug through town on Friday!

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 07/30/2019 at 22:06

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I'll ask my brother in law next time I see him, he works for Metra. I've never seen them pull anyone over though.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > shop-teacher 07/30/2019 at 22:37

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There it is!

shop-teacher > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/30/2019 at 22:42

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Man that was so cool!

Mercedes Streeter > shop-teacher 07/31/2019 at 12:46

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WHAT, the Big Boy came through Illinois? :D

Had you showed up you wouldn’t have been the only scoot. There were a couple Grom clones, some Chinese scooter, and a PCX 125 there. The vast vast majority of bikes were sportbikes with a surprising amount of Slingshots and Can-Ams also showing up.