I took this photo during a June 1984 visit to the recently closed Grand trunk Western Railroad Elsdon Yard on West 51st Street, in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood.
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad decided to close their old steam era Elsdon Yard for good in October of 1983, and move their switching and locomotive servicing operations to the Belt Railway of Chicago Clearing Yard in southwest suburban Bedford Park Illinois.
From the closing of Elsdon Yard until September of 1986, a small portion of the old Elsdon Yard site immediately north of West 51st Street, located on a curve east of South Lawndale Avenue, was being used as a temporary locomotive and crew terminal.
Seen here are former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad EMD roadswitchers acquired through merger by the GTW in 1981. Notice the GT stenciled in below the cab window.
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