I took this photograph on a rainy Friday evening after work in west suburban Forest Park Illinois. This is a photograph of one of the more "Elusive" freight trains that I have come to know. We are looking north from West 22nd Street / Cermak Road across the street from the North Riverside Shopping Mall. This is a Dead End railroad spur serving several factories alongside Woodlawn Cemetery. Beyond the grassy knoll to the left of the locomotive is Woodlawn Cemetery. This train was tied up at the time just idling away. The trains crew may have been taking a dinner break. The lead unit is still painted for the Illinois Central Railroad, while the second locomotive is painted for the Grand Trunk Western. The Canadian National merged and absorbed the Illinois Central Railroad in 1999. The Grand Trunk Western was a United States Subsidiary of the Canadian National Railroad.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Canadian National Railroad industrial switching local. Forest Park Illinois USA. August 2006.
I took this photograph on a rainy Friday evening after work in west suburban Forest Park Illinois. This is a photograph of one of the more "Elusive" freight trains that I have come to know. We are looking north from West 22nd Street / Cermak Road across the street from the North Riverside Shopping Mall. This is a Dead End railroad spur serving several factories alongside Woodlawn Cemetery. Beyond the grassy knoll to the left of the locomotive is Woodlawn Cemetery. This train was tied up at the time just idling away. The trains crew may have been taking a dinner break. The lead unit is still painted for the Illinois Central Railroad, while the second locomotive is painted for the Grand Trunk Western. The Canadian National merged and absorbed the Illinois Central Railroad in 1999. The Grand Trunk Western was a United States Subsidiary of the Canadian National Railroad.
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