Roseville?, Pine Bluff?, Houston?, Sacramento Shops?; Nope, Chicago! When Southern Pacific finally made it to Chicago, it did so in a big way, with trackage rights over BN and the old GM&O from St. Louis. They ended up choosing Belt Railway of Chicago as the area’s rail facility to be used by the railroad, and in this scene, SP power gathers at BRC’s Clearing Yard. Left to right: GE B36-7 No. 7769, EMD SD45T-2 No. 9201, GE B23-7 No. 5107, GE B39 No. 8034 and EMD GP60 No. 9656. A full (Clearing) house in the Windy City on July 16, 1992.
An exclamation attributed to TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it is this eponymous expression of which certain images convey man and machine versus nature . . .
