I took this photo 26 years ago this upcoming June! (Has it been that long already?)
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad had acquired the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad through merger in the year of 1981. The GTW also had decided to close their Elsdon Yard on Chicago's southwest side in October of 1983.
Although Elsdon Yard was already closed as a freight yard and locomotive servicing terminal, this little segment located on a curve north of West 51st Street just east of South Lawndale Avenue....served as a locomotive crew terminal and onsite light servicing facility until September of 1986. I can recall seeing locomotives being fueled onsite at this location by a tractor and trailer tanker truck. Unfortunately, it was always when I didn't have My camera with Me.
This was the old Grand Trunk Western Elsdon Yard site (Or what was left of it) during a transition period in June of 1984.
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