No strike, so the trains are running!
Rock Island E-units
New Lenox, Illinois
November 1978
Photo by Mark Llanuza
"South Shore 803 pulls up to Ice House Crossing. This is a remote area between Kensington and 130th St. 803 will back into the siding at the left to do interchange work with the Rock Island."
Chicago
September 1977
Photo by Lou Gerard
Santa Fe TOFC train seen from the cab of a Soo Line SD60 on the Belt Railway of Chicago
August 1993
Photo by Lonnie Maves (collection of D.A. Longley)
Norfolk Southern freight train headed to Chicago
Gibson City, Illinois
March 24, 1990
Photo by David Fasules
Freight train at grade crossing
East Chicago, Indiana
1972
Photo by C. William Brubaker (Collection of University of Illinois at Chicago)
South Shore 803 switching at Goff near Gary, Indiana
April 8, 1977
Kodachrome by Bob Schmidt, collection of Jim Strain
"South Shore 802 is at the B&OCT interchange in East Chicago (Indiana). The track going off to the right is the connection to the abandoned street running on Chicago Avenue in East Chicago."
February 1977
Photo by Lou Gerard
Burlington Route freight train
Aurora, Illinois
Photo by Terry Spirek
South Shore Line 803 switching at Kensington
Chicago
August 1980
Photo by Jim Strain
Soo Line freight train coming off of the St Charles Air Line and entering Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal trackage, as it crosses the South Branch of the Chicago River over the 16th Street Bridge.
Chicago
June 6, 1980
Photo by Bill Johnson
Santa Fe covered wagons 1973 by Mark LLanuza Via Flickr: “Santa Fe’s covered wagons passing through Joliet IL in the final year before they were rebuilt into CF-7’s are coming up to UD tower.”
Source: flickr.com
GT caboose crossing the Santa Fe mainline
McCook, Illinois
April 1986
Photo by Terry Spirek
A westbound Erie-Lackawanna freight crosses Broad Street in Griffith, Indiana
June 1975
NKP 747 2-8-4 HAMMOND, IN 4-11-53. Photo by PAUL SLAGER
Source: Flickr / sooliner
Milwaukee Road train passing Rondout Tower
Rondout, Illinois
September 1979
Photo by Charlie Whipp