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Dawning of the Super Fleet by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: Santa Fe’s 165 train speeds through Lockport, Illinois, led by a quartet of freshly-repainted “Super Fleet” EMD FP45 cowls on February 25, 1990.
Photo by Mike Danneman
Superelevation
Lockport, Illinois
June 1981
Photo by Bill Johnson
Santa Fe
Lockport, Illinois
January 1989
Photo by Bill Raia
“With the end of PA power on Santa Fe's former Grand Canyon mere months away, train #24 rolls through Lockport, Illinois on a dreary day late in 1967.”
Photo by Larry Sallee
GM&O passenger train at the Lockport station, which was built in 1863 for the Chicago and Alton. It is still used today by Metra.
Lockport, Illinois
1968
Photo by Larry Sallee
Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train passed by this station, according to this article: tinyurl.com/y7v2xw8b “The train left Union Station at 9:20 p.m. on May 2. Since the schedule was well publicized, crowds soon began lining the tracks, and bonfires were set in several locations. One was at Lockport, where residents with torches stood on either side of the line. Almost every building in Lockport was decorated with mourning cloth, and the fires illuminated numerous signs, including one that simply read, ‘Come Home’.”
Westbound Classics by joemcmillan118 on Flickr.
Caption: "Santa Fe train 165 approaches Division Street in Lockport, Illinois, February 27, 1990, behind freshly repainted FP45's 105, 104, 102, and 101. Seven business cars are tacked onto the rear of the train."
Photo by Joe McMillan
Caption: “This SD45-2 is eastbound in the early morning light at Lockport, IL back in 1980. You can get an idea of the super-elevation here, which gave you an idea of how the Santa Fe used to like to run them - fast.”
Lockport, Illinois
June 20, 1980
Photo by Bill Johnson
Caption: “One of those classic Santa Fe cowl units in one of those classic Santa Fe curves. The 5928 is flying past us through Lockport, IL back in 1980 with a train of piggybacks. He's almost home. Chicago is just a couple more elevated curves ahead.”
June 21, 1980
Lockport, Illinois
Photo by Bill Johnson
Santa Fe’s Grand Canyon near Lockport Illinois.
January 1968
Photo by Larry Sallee
Caption: "Amtrak: The Southbound InterAmerican flies past the old 'Symerton' station in Lockport, Illinois."
May 28, 1980
Photo by Bill Johnson
Santa Fe freight train
Lockport, Illinois
December 1967
Photo by Larry Sallee
Westbound Classics by joemcmillan118 on Flickr.
Santa Fe train 165 approaches Division Street in Lockport, Illinois, February 27, 1990, behind freshly repainted FP45’s 105, 104, 102, and 101. Seven business cars are tacked onto the rear of the train. Photo by Joe McMillan
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio local freight train
Lockport, Illinois
January 1968
Photo by LSallee on Flickr
