Friday, November 30, 2012

Grand Trunk Western locomotives idling at the former Elsdon Yard site. Chicago Illinois USA. December 1983.

I took this photograph on an overcast and chilly Saturday afternoon, way back in December of 1983.

The Grand Trunk Western Railroad had just recently closed their Elsdon Yard facility on West 51st Street in Chicago, during October of 1983. Surprisingly for a few more years, the GTW decided to keep a very small portion of the former Elsdon Yard site alive, as a locomotive and crew change terminal until September of 1986.

This photograph was taken facing north, from West 51st Street near South Lawndale Avenue. Sometimes locomotives were fueled on site by semi tanker trucks here at this curve location.

Thanks.
Eddie K.

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