This photo is very special to Me.
Seeing these two former Illinois Central EMD heavy duty roadswitchers on the head end of this westbound Canadian National freight train, was just like old times again prior to the CN merger and takeover in 1999.
I took this photo after work one summer afternoon back in June of 2007. This Canadian National freight train is viewed waiting on a hold order at the west end of the former Illinois Central Crawford Yard just east of Hawthorne Junction.
There were many north and southbound transfer trains dispatched on to the Belt Railway of Chicago tracks at Hawthorne Junction along the city limits border at west suburban Cicero Illinois at the time of My visit. Once the crosstracks were cleared, this freight train departed Crawford Yard and headed westbound over the former Illinois Central Railroad's Iowa Division Mainline.
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