Alco leads the way by Zeolite C O Via Flickr: Well...on this day anyway. This Century is leading two streamlined EMD's eastward. We're at Griffith, Indiana in November of 1974.
Source: Flickr / zeolite_c_o
Amtrak and Burlington Northern locomotive yards south of Chicago Union Station
1974
Photos by Tom Farence
Source: Flickr / rrradioman
JOLIET UNION STATION by rrradioman on Flickr.
Caption: "A panoramic view of Joliet in April 1974. Joliet Union Station on the left with UD Tower on the right. A westbound Santa Fe train approaches." Joliet, Illinois April 1974 Photo by Gary Sturm
Rock Island caboose #17190 lumbers across the diamonds at Joliet Union Station in April 1974. by rrradioman on Flickr.
Joliet, Illinois
April 1974
Photo by Gary Sturm
JOLIET UNION STATION by rrradioman on Flickr.
Photo by Gary Sturm Joliet, Illinois 1974
AMTRAK by rrradioman on Flickr.
Chicago July 1974 A good example of the strangeness that was early Amtrak. Here we see a former Illinois Central locomotive on the tracks leading to Chicago Union Station, instead of being at IC’s Central Station further east near Michigan Avenue.
CORWITH YARD by rrradioman on Flickr.
April 1974 Santa Fe locomotives at the Corwith Yard in Chicago, in the area bounded by the Stevenson Expressway, Pulaski, Archer, and Kedzie. It is still in operation today as a BNSF intermodal facility. Note the Sears Tower in the distance.