I took this photo just north of adjacent West 51st Street, east of South Lawndale Avenue in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood way back in June of 1984.
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad had just closed and phased out the old steam era Elsdon Yard the previous Autum back in October of 1983. For a few years after the fact....The GTW used a small fraction of the former Elsdon Yard site along the north side of West 51st Street until September of 1986. This little segment was located just east of South Lawndale Avenue, and was being utilized as a small and somewhat makeshift locmotive crew terminal.
These former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad locomotives acquired through merger by the Grand Trunk Western in 1981, are viewed idling at what was left operationally of the former Elsdon Yard site. Many times locomotives were fueled onsite here by a tractor and trailer semi tanker truck when the need arose.
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