I took this photo looking north from adjacent West 51st Street, in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood way back in early April of 1985.
EMD diesel electric locomotives from the Grand Trunk Western and the Milwaukee Road railroads, are viewed idling on the curve just north of West 51st Street, alongside the temporary yard office east of South Lawndale Avenue.
The GTW Elsdon Yard had closed as a switching yard and locomotive terminal back in October of 1983. For a few years after the fact until September of 1986, this little "Fraction" of the former Elsdon Yard site, was used as a crew terminal.
At the time of this photo, the bankrupt Milwaukee Road was courting the opportunity of a merger with the Grand Trunk Western, but it did not materialize. The same year, the Milwaukee Road was bought out through merger by the Soo Line Railroad.
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