EX-URR 469 idle at the Tube City scrap facility.
Rock Island SW1 4801 (ex-Illinois Central 602, nee-IC 9016) works the coach yard in Chicago on Independence Day, 1976. This locomotive was built by EMD in December 1939.
According to the engineer this is the oldest locomotive in Chicagoland, buit in the year 1939.
Train Switching East Of Town , Railroad Not In Service At This Time
Cars left for interchange with CN are checked before the train departs Winthrop Junction.
Also now an Ohio Central piece of equipment, MVRY, of Union RR heritage, is shut down after having completed its yard work.
Switching In Town
A Cargill SW1.
metra shuttle train at windsor Park Sta.
diesel shuttle train due to station construction on metras south chicago line
Radio control equipped ,still with an EMD prime mover.
One of the last two units in the remains for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube, once world's largest steel mill.
Love the bell location on these SW-1's! How "steam" looking are they!
Ex-CNJ.
