Monday, January 28, 2008

Eastbound Union Pacific transfer train. Hayford Junction. Chicago Illinois USA. March 1985.

I took this photo on Chicago's southwest side,one afternoon in March of 1985. An eastbound Union Pacific transfer train has just left the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard in Bedford Park Illinois, and is now approaching the crosstracks at Hayford Junction. The flatcars behind the locomotive consist, are carrying tall loads of automobile frames. Notice the former Missouri Pacific blue diesel locomotive in the consisit. The Union Pacific bought out the Missouri Pacific in a 1982 merger, and for the first 8 years afterward...Mo Pac units were a regular site here at Hayford Junction and around Chicago period.

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