Every visit to Chicagoland often ended along the "Racetrack" in Cicero for the last relaxing images before boarding the plane back home and almost every visit was disrupted by something ... (more)

A BNSF yard job takes headroom towards the BRC as an eastbound suburban takes the signal at Cicero. In the foreground is the former Manufactures Junction Railway which lost its last customer some... (more)

A trio of CSX Transportation EMD locomotives in three paint schemes pause at Burlington Northern’s Clyde Yard locomotive facility in Cicero, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. Resting closer to the ... (more)

A trio of former Milwaukee Road EMD GP20s, now owned by Chicago Central & Pacific, depart the CC’s locomotive facility at Hawthorne Yard at Cicero, Illinois, on November 22, 1986. These EMD GP9s... (more)

BNSF 972, 968, 966, 963, 964, brand new GE C44-9W locomotives just yarded their ELBNA train and are heading to the diesel service tracks at Clyde Yard in Cicero Illinois. These are the first of th... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50s, Nos. 6729 and 6764, have run through to Burlington Northern’s Clyde Yard at Cicero, Illinois, operating on the ELBN freight from CR’s Elkhart Yard in Indiana on Februa... (more)

It's a classic Illinois Central scene at Hawthorne Yard as SD70's 1034 and 1033 take a pull with M337, passing by the leaning, but still standing R2 signal.

Burlington Northern EMD SD7 No. 6054 sits stored at the railroad’s locomotive facility in Clyde Yard at Cicero, Illinois, in November 1983. The locomotive was built in December 1952 as Chicago, ... (more)

Watco's Cicero Terminal Railroad is seen taking some headroom out on the old Chicago & Illinois Western as they work into the evening switching around the tank cars at Koppers Inc in Cicero, IL.

Three Fallen Flags in BN’s Clyde Yard

Conrail SD40 6275 (ex-Penn Central 6275), Santa Fe B23-7 6384 and an unidentified Burlington Northern EMD locomotive surround Union Pacifi... (more)

Two yard pulldowns shuffle around baretables at the east end of Clyde Yard while BNSF 2345 shoves back past East End Tower as BNSF 2576 pulls for headroom with more baretables.

After a 4 hour wait for the BRC to be able to take them, R-CHI457 hugs the abandoned Manufactures Railway bridge while they head under on the connection from the BNSF onto the BRC. A veteran ‘Wa... (more)

CSX’s OCS makes a stop in Cicero, Illinois with F7A #118 leading in October 1990. In the background, a pair of LMX Dash 8s await their next assignment. Original Slide. Mike Raia Photo. Sam Foste... (more)

In a heavily industrialized (and incredibly smelly) corner of downtown Chicago, the morning run of the Sanitary Train is concluding as it backs its train into the plant. The historic SW1 will cut ... (more)

BNSF 4390 leads R-CHI457 West through Cicero. The Chicago skyline, as well as the old Western Electric tower stand in the background.