Thursday, October 07, 2010

Eastbound Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe transfer train. Chicago Illinois. September 1988.





I took this photo during a very pleasant late summer evening, back in early September of 1988.

We are facing east at the South Austin Avenue railroad crossing at West 60th Street, near Chicago's Midway Airport. Passing this location is an eastbound Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad transfer freight train traveling over the Belt Railway of Chicago trackage.

The bright red and yellow diesel locomotive in the middle of the motive power consist, wears a paint scheme from the recently failed merger attempt with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

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