We are approximately 4 to 5 blocks east of Cicero Avenue on Chicago's Southwest Side. A Santa Fe caboose hop with 2 Diesel Locomotives is about to speed pass the Belt Railway of Chicago's crosstracks at Nerska Junction. We are looking toward the I-55 Stevenson Expressway embankment. The second locomotive in the Red Color scheme with the large "S F" was painted hastilly in advance for a Proposed Merger with the Southern Pacific Railroad that didn't materialize.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Westbound Santa Fe caboose hop approaching Nerska Junction. November 1989.
We are approximately 4 to 5 blocks east of Cicero Avenue on Chicago's Southwest Side. A Santa Fe caboose hop with 2 Diesel Locomotives is about to speed pass the Belt Railway of Chicago's crosstracks at Nerska Junction. We are looking toward the I-55 Stevenson Expressway embankment. The second locomotive in the Red Color scheme with the large "S F" was painted hastilly in advance for a Proposed Merger with the Southern Pacific Railroad that didn't materialize.
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From Nerska east was the Santa Fe Junction Yard extending east under the Pulaski Road bridge which was cleaning tracks for empty SFRD ice bunker refrigerator cars moving California produce to the rest of America much of it through the Chicago Produce Terminal operated jointly by the IC & ATSF on the west side of Western Avenue north of the Chicago River.
Google Earth sez: The CPT was south of the river, from around Ash Street eastward to Ashland Avenue with Damon Avenue (The Richard J Daley Expressway) passing overhead.
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