Southbound Canadian National Railroad transfer train. Hawthorne Junction. Chicago / Cicero Illinois. June 2008.
I took this photo one summer afternoon, in early June of 2008. One of the busier railroad junctions I have come to know in the greater Chicagoland area, is Hawthorne Junction at the border of West suburban Cicero Ilinois. A Canadian National transfer train enroute to the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard in southwest suburban Bedford Park Illinois, heads southbound across the Canadian National's ex Illinois Central Iowa Division Mainline crosstracks. An old interlocking tower stood here just behind the locomotives until 1990. Most of the train traffic through here today, is on the north and south Belt Railway of Chicago trackage. Prior to it's discontinuation in early 1981, the Amtrak "Blackhawk" wich traveled between Chicago Illinois and Dubuque Iowa, passed through this junction over the Illinois Central line.
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