Thursday, August 13, 2015

A southbound Canadian National freight train, waits on a hold order along South Central Park Avenue near Hayford Junction. Chicago Illinois. August 2015.

 
Just recently, I paid a short visit to one of my old railfan haunts
I used to hang out at during the 1980's. Good old Hayford
Junction, located at West 75th Street and South Central Park
Avenue, in Chicago's Ashburn neighborhood.
 
Seen here idling on the former Grand Trunk Western mainline
just north of West 79th Street, is a southbound CN freight
train, that had just crept through the interchange a few city
blocks north of here at Hayford Junction. This train was in
the process of departing from the Belt Railway of Chicago
Clearing Yard, and once given the green signal, will soon
be heading toward places like Detroit Michigan.

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