Railfanning, 1950's style. The Switchtender, dressed in his street shoes, tolerant but nonplussed by the photographer and his friend, the late Bill Rosenberg of Long Island City, N.Y., on the lef... (more)
With highstepping class K4a #5631 up front, an outbound commuter train prepares to depart the Motor City. More scenes from that day have been uploaded at Railroad: Grand Trunk WesternLocomotive: Steam 4-6-2Location: Detroit, Michigan, USALocomotive #: GTW 5631Train ID: commuterPhoto Date: August 13, 1956
Ex Rock Island unit on point with DTI unit and a Grand Trunk caboose rounds out this mixed batch
Coming from Missouri Pacific Yard Center
Nothing like the sound of 2 GP40's and 3 GP38's in notch 8 while hitting 50 mph across the diamonds at Blue Island. The Grand Trunk always put on a show coming through here.
Just another typical day at Thorton Jct.
This Ex Rock Island GP38-2 waits for an assignment by the West Tower in Battle Creek.
GP9 units 4916, 4910 and 4139 are ready to depart with the MAPLE LEAF on an overcast June morning. The train on the left is ATSF no. 16, TEXAS CHIEF, just in.
U-1-c #6040 with 73" drivers is hostled at Brush St. passing the old Standard Oil [Indiana] crown pump. Most of the 5 locomotives in this class (#6037-41) were gradually equipped with disc driver... (more)
Locomotive consists like this are getting rarer by the day on the Canadian National...
An interesting view shows the GTW 4622 in charge of a local as it passes the devil unit EJE 666 on it's way southbound toward Matteson Il.
Yard job grabs some well cars for a shove into One East.
The Peoria Local rolls across the diamonds to get head room before backing into the yard.
