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Joliet with Texas Eagle, Part Two

Following up on my previous post on Joliet: only twenty minutes later we see another Texas Eagle, this time the southbound Number 21. I had a quick, friendly chat with Fortier who was working the train.

And I've included a vintage shot here as well: the Santa Fe Super-C, seen in 1975. This is the only train (back then) I had images of going in a southerly direction.

As stated before, the tower is now a railroad museum with a new transportation center attached. Not sure what is happening with Union Station, but it's good to see it well taken care of.

Once again, the Amtrak train is on the former GM&O, now Union Pacific. And now we have evidence of the other double track main beging that of the former ATSF. The Rock Island Railroad crossed the two other lines here (see next post).

The pro-Trump archbishop of New York, Cardinal Dolan, is retiring. Pope Leo XIV is replacing Dolan with a pro-migrant moderate from Illinois.

Pope Leo has appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks to replace Cardinal Timothy Dolan, a friend of President Donald Trump who has served in the position since 2009, as New York’s newest archbishop, a major shake-up in the country’s Catholic leadership that appears to continue the pontiff’s pushback against Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. Leo’s decision to appoint Hicks, who has endorsed criticism of the treatment of migrants under the Trump Administration, aligns with the Pope’s own increasingly vocal defenses of migrants’ rights amid the President’s intensifying enforcement campaign across the U.S. [ ... ] Dolan has been vocal on politics, becoming known for his conservative views. He delivered an invocation at Trump’s second inauguration and was appointed by the President to his Religious Liberty Commission this spring. Later in the year, Dolan praised the late right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk as a “modern-day St. Paul,” which drew pushback from other religious figures. 

Bishop Hicks of Joliet is obviously a major improvement. He will take office weeks after Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor. The torch is being passed to a younger group of leaders in NYC.

Here is how WGN in Chicago covered the elevation of yet another local cleric into the senior ranks of the Catholic Church.

for context as to how insane their pluto/hendrick relationship has been so far: he falls in love with her instantly confesses very soon after gets rejected confesses again right away she doesn't even show up he gets severely depressed, i send him on vacation so he doesn't khs things seem fine? he falls in love again pluto falls for perospero, then falls out of love she falls for him he confesses, they get together things seem fine!! pluto talks to guldo he gets really mad and causes a problem She apologizes to HIM and he says he doesn't forgive her. BOY IT WAS YOUR FAULT. Toxic ass behavior. they don't talk for quite a while. I get my mii out of her slump he finally grows a spine and says sorry what will happen next.

Juvenile Male Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Joliet, IL, USA