I found this phjoto on the internet courtesy of an excelent internet site known as Fallen Flags. org
This historic Chicago area railroad photo and several other wonderful selections can be viewed at their web address at www.rr-fallenflags.org
The orange color scheme used on todays Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad locomotives was introduced in 2005. The plain orange color scheme shown here, was introduced by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad way back in the year of 1980. ( It didn't last long.)
When I attended Chicago's Curie High School from 1977 to 1981, I would occasionally see one or two of the IHB EMD switchers assigned to the IHB Stockyards branchline local wich passed behind Curie High School, until the line was abandoned in December of 1988. Today portions of the former IHB Stockyards branch, are now the CTA orange line rapid transit to Chicago Midway Airport.
This photo that was taken in 1983, did not give an exact location other than it was near the ICG / Illinois Central Gulf mainline. I believe that this could have been taken in west suburban Broadview Illinois, as the IHB passes underneath the former ICG Iowa Division Mainline near 25th Avenue and West Roosevelt Road.
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