Digital Live Sound Video: Central Illinois Railroad EMD SW-9 # 1206 backing across W Cermak Road with a BNSF Railway boxcar. Chicago Illinois USA..

I photographed this Digital Live Sound Video on Friday, October 31st, 2008. We are looking west on 22nd Street / West Cermak Road in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Freshly repainted Central Illinois Railroad rebuilt 1950's era EMD model SW-9 yardswitcher number # 1206, is pulling a BNSF Railway boxcar out from an industrial railroad spur siding along the southside of West Cermak Road. The locomotive was recently repainted in to the 1950's era Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad 'Blackbird" color scheme. Prior to 1970 and the merger creation of the Burlington Northern Railroad, the C,B & Q had switched the sidings on this industrial branchline railroad, with EMD switchers in this color scheme.