CSX SD70MACe 4732 leads M642 West through South Holland.
Retired CN locomotives hang out on their last days at Yard Center awaiting their final move to Chicago Heights for an appointment with the cutting torch.
An IHB transfer arrives at Yard Center with interchange traffic for the UP.
A pair of UPY RailPower RP20BD's waits for its next assignment at Yard Center on a beautiful afternoon.
Tom Golden photo.
A PRLX SD75M, still sporting Santa Fe Warbonnet paint, hustles a westbound freight down the former Grand Trunk in South Holland, Illinois. For a time, CN had a lease with these units.
Towers, semaphores, and derricks were quite common in this 1970 scene where MoPac personnel are performing cleanup after a coal train derailment on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.
Cleanup is underway after a Missouri Pacific coal train has derailed on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.
The odd looking RP20BD's UPY 909 and 913 shoves a cut of cars back into the yard at Yard Center in suburban South Holland.
Over looking Yard Center we see a pair of UP RailPower RP20BD's working the south end of the yard on a beautiful day for flying.
Multiple railfans are out and about at Thornton Junction as a Grand Trunk Western SD40 is about to cross the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.
RJ Corman is on-site assisting with rerailing efforts after a derailment on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.
A pair of DT&I Geeps are traversing south from the former C&EI east onto GTW rails. Tom Golden photo.