This is a result of an early morning derailment on CP's Thompson Sub. This derailment resulted in no trains running on CP's Thompson and CN's Ashcroft Sub.
Oops!! This girl was looking for the next inbound Metra train to Chicago, peered to the west, turned around to look back east, and was surprised to see this empty coal train running the "wr... (more)
Imagine my expletive as a accident spotted this which cruising down the freeway on day. It had been set out as a bad order. Good luck for me, bad luck for SP.
The company the photographer held an assembly-line job with went on strike for a 25-cent raise in September 1951. That was all the temptation he needed to climb aboard PRR train #13, an overnight... (more)