The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's water treatment plant In Stickney owns three SW1 locomotives and one MP15 locomotive. After a three year long absence of the MP15 d... (more)

CSDX SW1 3 shoves its train of empties into the plant in Stickney.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's water treatment plant In Stickney Is seen in the background, as SW1’s #’s 3 and 2 are In the process of shoving 26 empties into... (more)

Two of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago‘s SW1’s shove the empties they just brought back from the dumping fields in McCook into in the loader at their homebase in... (more)

CSDX SW1 #2 approaches the treatment plant in Stickney, with 13 empties for loading.

On a hot and sticky morning, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's massive, water treatment plant is seen from above in Stickney. Times are busy as multiple trains of lo... (more)

On the first official day of winter, also the shortest day of the year, The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago is seen here doing the morning tradition of shoving their emp... (more)

This is where the magic happens. SW1 #3 shoves 13 empties into track 3 at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's treatment plant in Stickney, IL. Loaded side dump cars ar... (more)

On a extremely cold winter morning, CSDX 3 shoves empties into the Metropolitan Water Reclamation plant in Stickney.

On the first day of March, one of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's venerable SW1's shoves a train of empties into one of the loading tracks of the Stickney plant.

The entire locomotive fleet of the Sanitary District of Chicago's railroad is sitting outside the railroad's shops in Stickney, Illinois on a sunny March afternoon. The roster of all end cab locom... (more)

CSDX SW1 3 shoves its train back into the Plant in Stickney.

CSDX #3, one of the Chicago Sanitary District's three venerable SW1's, shoves 13 empties to the loader in Stickney. The train just completed its trip from the dumping fields in Willow Springs.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago operates a 570-acre plant that removes biosolids from the city's waste water. This facility, in the Chicago suburb of Stickney, is large enough ... (more)

Despite its name, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago is a special-purpose state-operated district chartered to operate in Cook County, Illinois, since 1889. The MWRD's main pu... (more)