Elsdon Yard, on Chicago's southwest side, had a roundhouse and service facilities for Grand Trunk Western steam power until the end of the steam era. We visited the yard and found a good number of... (more)
Train 521 races through the snow on the South Bend Sub from Battle Creek to Midwest Lumber, it's first stop of the day.
Dawn breaks on GTW 4920 sitting idle by CN West Tower as 149 pulls down to Emmett Street in the background.
GTW 6221 heads through Iron Junction on its way back to Keenan.
GTW 5850 has eleven of them for Smurfit Stone.
6038 is hostled to the coal chute.
Her last stop before heading out on the road, #5633 gets topped off at the chute under the watchful eye of the foreman.
The sun set is seen through the cab of a Grand Trunk GP38 as it waits at the east end of Canadian Pacific's Bensenville Yard with a Canadian National transfer run. Railroad: Grand Trunk WesternLocomotive: EMD GP38Location: Franklin Park, Illinois, USALocomotive #: GTW 4914Train ID: N/APhoto Date: August 23, 2009
The lines of shrouded 6407, seen here well after her halcyon days hauling the 1st-class varnish over the system, still have an eloquence.
A broader view of 5633 in her environs as she moves slowly by to the coal dock at Milwaukee Jct. terminal
One of the last three Pacifics built for GTW by Baldwin in 1929 rolls out of the barn onto the table at Milwaukee Jct., to be spun and then coaled/watered.
Spun, 5633 has her game face on as she's hostled up to the coal dock.
The waiting is the hardest part. -Tom Petty
