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This EMD Ist generation roadswitcher, was photographed just immediately west of the 1914 built GTW Elsdon Roundhouse on South Kedzie Avenue and approximately what would be West 49th Street. This engine and a few others, are idling on the ready tracks at the locomotive servicing terminal.
The Grand Trunk Western closed Elsdon Yard and the roundhouse locomotive servicing facility in October of 1983. The roundhouse was demolished around December of 1987.
Today, this is the site of an outdoor retail strip mall in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood.
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