Tower Talk A westbound freight train ramps up to 60 mph on the center track overtaking a westbound commuter train, as an eastbound commuter trains heads to Berwyn beyond, along the famed Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad’s triple-track raceway at Riverside, Illinois. The town’s historic water tower of 1869 heritage nods to the modern skyscrapers of downtown Chicago beyond, while the common thread linking both is the railroad.