Belt Railway of Chicago EMD TR 4 Cow and calf switcher at Hayford Junction. Chicago Illinois. January 1999.

I found this photograph from the Belt Railway of Chicago at My Link page Fallen Flags.Org, located to the right of Your computer screen at http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/

The Belt Railway of Chicago was until recent times, a longtime user of elderly EMD first generation diesel yard switchers and GP 7 roadswitcher locomotives. Many changes took place on the BRC in 1999, as this was the official "Last Stand" year of the older motive power on the BRC roster, and would soon be facing retirement and replacement with newer motive power.

Railfan photographer Keith Rottman took this classic BRC photograph on the southwest side of Chicago.

Belt Railway of Chicago EMD TR 4 Cow and Calf yard switcher engines # 506 and # 516, are viewed pulling an eastbound transfer freight train through Hayford Junction at West 75th Street and South Central Park Avenue in Chicago's Ashburn neighborhood, on a dry Winter day in January of 1999.

During the 1980's, Hayford Junction was a favorite railfan haunt for Myself, as I would photograph those elderly EMD Cow and Calf switcher locomotives like these two pulling transfer freight trains through the junction.

In the photograph shown here, the train is crossing the now single track (Since 1989) Canadian National ex Grand Trunk Western crosstrack at Hayford Junction. Behind the locomotives during the 1980's, was the single story building that controlled and dispatched train traffic through the junction, that was refered to as the Hayford Junction Tower. This building was taken out of service and boarded up in 1993, and demolished not long after that.

Thanks.

Eddie K.