Looking west into Clearing Yard from the Cicero Ave overpass.

BRC MP15 150 switches Best Foods in Cicero.

A trio of BRC Alcos are seen bringing a transfer into the B&OCT's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

BRC's industry job makes a pick-up at Independence Tube Corporation.

BRC MP15AC 150 departs Charter Steel on Chicago's west side after making its pick-up.

BRC 151 heads south across the BNSF Chillicothe Sub at LeMoyne. This local usually has a Geep of some kind for power, so I was pleasantly surprised to see it operating with a switcher on this sunn... (more)

A pair of Belt Railway of Chicago MP15DCs, including their bicentennial contribution, bring a transfer to CSX's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

BRC GP23ECO 237 switches a pulldown job at Clearing yard.

BRC 235 crosses the Santa Fe at Nerska as it heads south servicing the industries along the Kenton Sub.

BROC Alco #604 brings a transfer freight into CNW's Proviso Yard on a dreary day in January of 1986.

A Belt Railway of Chicago cow-calf set is seen switching cars on Chicago's South Side. Jim Mirabelli photo.

BRC GP38-2 581 smokes it as it pulls out the east end of Clearing with a puilldown. To the left a BRC ECO shoves another pulldown back. In the distance you can see the massive hump yard.

12 years after it was painted, The Belt Railway of Chicago's bicentennial contribution leads a transfer along CSX's former B&OCT to Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Four Belt Railway of Chicago GP23ECOs wait for their morning crews to arrive at Clearing Yard's East Class Yard. In the background, a slug set on the 2230WH 3rd shift hump job brings a train over ... (more)

A pair of Belt Railway of Chicago GP38-2s are seen at the IHB's Blue Island Yard after bringing in a transfer. Tom Golden photo.