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.
Harvest States Cooperatives SW1 200 resting in the morning light at the Harvest States Elevator in Superior August 1990. The 200 was built as Portland Traction Co. 200 in March 1953. This is a ver... (more)
Field of....poop. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (Sanitary District of Chicago, for short) is the only railroad in America (and possibly the world?) that transports... (more)