We are looking east from Narraganset Avenue and 60th street near Chicago's Midway Airport.Sunset is now approaching on this fine late summer day in 1988. The second diesel unit in tow, an EMD GP30 from 1963, has been hastily repainted into a proposed merger color scheme that did not materialize. The Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific were getting ready to merge in the mid 1980's...but the Interstate Commerce Commision ruled "No". The two Railroads went their seperate ways corporately. The Union Pacific Railroad Merged / Bought out the Southern Pacific in the mid 1990's, and the Burlington Northern Railroad merged/ Bought out the Santa Fe shortly after that.
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With the exception of Cicero Avenue there is no way out of Clearing except accross a BRC grade crossing.
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