Eastbound GTW waiting for clearance. January 1987.

This photograph was taken from the Pulaski Road overpass looking west into the afternoon
sunshine. A heavy snow fell in the morning on
this january day in 1987. A train from the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, is seen waiting for the dispatcher to give them clearance to leave the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard. The Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard is located in the Village of Bedford Park Illinois, between Midway airport on the north , and the Ford City Shopping Center to the south of it.