Rock Island E-units Chicago IL May 1976
"It's May 1976 we're on top of the Roosevelt Road bridge with the 20th Century Club Special leaving La Salle Street Station with the freshly painted Bicentennial unit leading the way."
Photo by Mark Llanuza
CTA 2400s at Sedgwick
September 1976
Collection of John Smatlak
"It's a foggy misty morning at Chicago La Salle Street station with Rock Island Bicentennial unit to lead the way on a 20th Century fan trip to Bureau Jct IL."
May 13, 1976
Photo by Mark Llanuza
“On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section continuing on the Washington DC and the other section heading up to New York City. Two-year-old SDP40Fs 601 and 592 are in charge of this 12-car train, at least until Harrisburg, where each section will have the diesel changed to electric power – most likely a former-Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 on each section.”
Chicago
July 4, 1976
Photo by Craig Walker
Rock Island Line
Joliet Illinois
August 1976
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CTA articulated compartment car 5002, renumbered to car 52 in the early 1960s, was once again renumbered as 75 for this country’s bicentennial. It eventually went to the Illinois Railway Museum as 52. Here we see it at Skokie Shops on January 26, 1975.”
Photo by Bruno Berzins
“Soo 1776 waits to get into position for the July fourth parade at Schiller Park in July of 76.“
Photo by Bill Raia
Source: Flickr / sooliner
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July 4, ½ rates – Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad. In this fare advertisement from 1896 a woman stands shooting fireworks into the sky. Vintage railroad poster. New in Vintage Travel Posters. (via July 4, ½ rates – Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad – Vintagraph)
Source: vintagraph.com
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CTA 6139-6140 at Kimball and Lawrence on November 13, 1977.”
Chicago
Photo by Ronald J. Sullivan
Rock Island Bicentennial locomotive “Independence”.
June 1978
Photo by Bill Raia
Source: Flickr / sooliner
EJ&E SD-38 at Eola IL 1976 by Mark LLanuza Via Flickr: April 1976 with northbound EJ&E leaving The BN interchange at Eola IL
Source: flickr.com
Erie Lackawanna SDP-45 at Griffith Ind March 1976 by Mark LLanuza
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“1975 view at Fullerton, Bicentennial painted 6000 Samuel Adams is on a southbound Ravenswood All Stops run. Note the big Dietzgen Corporation building in the background- famous maker of drafting tools.”
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The Belt Railway Co. of Chicago MP15 Chicago belt line road sports a patriotic paint job on their new EMD MP15 locomotive 534. Belt Railway of Chicago was the host road for an eight Bicentennial locomotive display on July 31, 1975
Photo by Ray Lackemayer
Source: Flickr / johannes-j-smit