This train comes on at the BNSF in Eola, or the UP at West Chicago. These 800 series units are needed because the older SD units have drip pans to catch fluids that might otherwise drip in the ecologically protected area of the Romeoville Branch. Once the loads are taken up to the Will County Generator, they are dropped off, and the empties are taken back to East Joliet Yard, if there are any. The plant personal actually switch the plant themselves. They can go everyday for a number of days, then stop for a long time.
Empty trains do the same in reverse.
The trains will normally have UP or SP power on them. West out of Joliet around mid morning with 1-2 switchers. It then heads up the main to the Phoenix Line along the West side of the Des Plains River, switching various industries as it goes. It use to interchange with the Joliet Junction Railway which operated the J's old Rockdale Line, but the Rockdale line has been torn out. A switcher or two will come up through Bridge Jct.