Westbound Burlington Northern double stack container train. La Grange Illinois USA. January 1987.

I took this photo in west suburban La Grange Illinois, during a January 1987 lineside railfan photo outing along the 3 track Chicago to Aurora Illinois Burlington Northern mainline. I took this photo just west of Brainard Avenue, in the Lyons Township High School parking lot. A speeding westbound intermodal double stack container train, is seen passing through La Grange Illinois on a cold and overcast winter Saturday afternoon. The train is being headed up by the Burlington Northern's uniquely painted EMD model GP-50 roadswitchers in the short lived "Tiger Striped" orange and black nose color scheme. Local Chicago railfans refered to these as "Tiger Stripe Geep 50's". ( Pronounced "Jeep".) These were the only such diesels that the Burlington Northern painted in this experiimental color scheme, and they were easy to spot anywhere.