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“A classic commuter scene at the Rock Island Vermont Street station in Blue Island, Illinois, October 1976. Check out those stylish 70's rides waiting to pick up people from the train!”
Both cars and the locomotive are General Motors products: Chevy Impala, Olds Ninety Eight, EMD F7.
Original slide in collection of John Smatlak, Bernie Smith photo.
“This is Santa Fe’s 21st Street Yard engine facility in Chinatown in Chicago. Santa Fe General Electric U28CG 356 sits next to EMD F7A 308 at the fuel pad at 21st Street, awaiting diesel fuel and other supplies. This entire area is now gone. All the land and buildings went toward expanding housing in Chinatown and bringing the CTA heavy-rail rapid transit to the area.”
April 4, 1968
Photo by Glenn Anderson (James E. Humbert Collection)
Chicago & North Western/RTA commuter trains passing the Clinton Street Tower on the elevated track a short distance out from the North Western Terminal.
Note the C&NW headquarters building in the upper photo at the base of the Sears Tower.
Chicago
June 1982
Milwaukee Road
November 1975
Photo by Bill Johnson
"One of the prettiest dinner trains, if not the most popular, was this Wisconsin & Calumet offering, which ran back in the early 1990's. Here it is, approaching Zenda on Saturday, Oct 5, 1991. Two F7s, one on each end of the train, were the power. The entire train was painted in Illinois Central inspired chocolate and orange and looked fantastic rolling through the countryside.”
Photo by Bill Johnson
“Regional Transportation Authority F7A 305 rolls past the former Rock Island yard at Blue Island, Illinois with a short ballast train on March 24, 1986.”
Photo by Joe Lewnard
“Soo FP7 505 along with an SD40-2 and an F7 wait to go out on train 911 at the Schiller Park engine terminal in March 1976. This is two days after a tornado took down the roundhouse and damged several houses near the yard.”
Photo by Lou Gerard
Wisconsin & Calumet (WICT) F7 #106
Janesville, Wisconsin
June 25, 1989
Photo by Bill Johnson
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad F7 163A
Plano, Illinois
March 20, 1966
Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler
Chicago & North Western Railway F7 4070A westbound at Wheaton, Illinois
November 1, 1965
Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler
Return of the 400 by Moffat Road on Flickr.
Chicago & North Western excursion August 1985 Photo by Mike Danneman
Caption: “One of Rock Island's F-units is seen at the 95th Street Yard service track awaiting its next assignment.”
Chicago
June 4, 1978
Caption: “A Rock Island westbound freight crosses the GM&O/ATSF diamonds at U.D.Tower, behind two F7 (119-107).”
Joliet, Illinois
June 21, 1970
Photo by Paul Enenbach
Chicago & North Western Railway F7 421 at Keeler Avenue ( 40th Street Shops ) in Chicago, Illinois in June 1981.
Note the ex-Frisco GP7 at right.
Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler
AT&SF F7 46C flying green flags westbound at Joliet, Illinois on July 11, 1965.
Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler
Caption: “Ex GN/BN F7 9728 leads an Amtrak Milwaukee train, with a Milwaukee Road Dynamometer car at Techny, Illinois in October 1972.”
Photo by Lou Gerard
Caption: “Erie Lackawanna F7 7134 around Lowe Park, near 51st Street and Normal Boulevard in Chicago in Illinois on January 9, 1966, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.”
