Grand Trunk Western Railroad EMD SW 1200 diesel switcher locomotive # 1518. Photographed at the GTW Elsdon Yard. Chicago Illinois. October 29th, 1977. J.R Quin photograph.

 

I found this photograph from the now long gone Grand Trunk

Western Railroad / Elsdon Yard facility at my Link page

Fallen Flags.Org, which is located to the right of your

computer screen at www.rr-fallenflags.org

 

This photograph is very special and very dear to my heart, as

I was attending my freshman year semester at nearby Curie

High School just a half a mile west of here, at the time that

this photograph was taken by J.R Quin back in 1977.

 

I was beginning to explore the GTW Elsdon Yard on occasion,

and it was one of my favorite railfan haunts, in the days before

I owned my first camera. Sadly, the GTW closed Elsdon

Yard in October of 1983. However...I did take photographs

here during the final week of operation in 1983.