I had taken this photograph in Febuary of 1986, on Chicago's southwest side around west 73rd Street and South Kedzie Avenue. For about a year or so approximately, There was a privatly owned railroad locomotive scrap yard operation located just east of the Kedzie Avenue overpass bridge. In this location, anything fron retired diesel locomotives to outdated freight cars were "Cut up" for scrap metal. The old diesel locomotive here is a possible late 1940's -early 1950's vintage EMD SW-1 diesel yard switcher. These locomotives, too small for tadays class 1 operations are very versitile and after rebuilding, are still working day to day switching private industries -oil refineries -grain elevators, or in this case, switching in a privately owned scrapyard.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Scrap Yard Switcher. Chicago Illinois USA. Febuary 1986.
I had taken this photograph in Febuary of 1986, on Chicago's southwest side around west 73rd Street and South Kedzie Avenue. For about a year or so approximately, There was a privatly owned railroad locomotive scrap yard operation located just east of the Kedzie Avenue overpass bridge. In this location, anything fron retired diesel locomotives to outdated freight cars were "Cut up" for scrap metal. The old diesel locomotive here is a possible late 1940's -early 1950's vintage EMD SW-1 diesel yard switcher. These locomotives, too small for tadays class 1 operations are very versitile and after rebuilding, are still working day to day switching private industries -oil refineries -grain elevators, or in this case, switching in a privately owned scrapyard.
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I'm impressed with your site, very nice graphics!
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I don't know if you have ever been, but down in Dixmoor, Il is a big locomotive scrapyard. Well they don't just scrap engines, they rebuild, lease, sell, and whatnot. They have an ex inland steel SW1 painted just like this one that they use to pull the other engines around. They recently scrapped a bunch of GP7's that had been there since 1989
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