Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Northbound CP Rail intermodal transfer approaching Hawthorne Junction. Chicago Illinois USA. Early April 2007.

A northbound Canadian Pacific double stack container train, is slowly creeping northbound and will soon be near the former Illinois Central crosstracks at Hawthorne Junction near the Chicago city limits. Once the dispatcher gives the O'K, the locomotives bright headlight will kick on, and the train will throttle up under load conditions and proceed to Cragin Junction and points west. The straw brown winter scenery, will soon be giving way to bright green in approximately two weeks from the time of this photograph, as Chicago enters springtime.

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