This photograph was taken by Me, on a lovely partly cloudy spring afternoon in April of 2006.Behind the former GTW locomotives is the abandoned "Sportsmans" horse racing track. At some point during the late 1990's, This park was rebuilt and became the short lived "Chicagoland Motor Speedway", where many Nascar and other Auto and Stock Car racing events took place. The park had closed in 2004 after numerous complaints of noise from area residents across the railroad embankment. The railroad line shown here is the former Illinois Central Railroad "Iowa Division". This area is the Hawthorn Yard engine service facility. After the Canadian National Railroad had absorbed the Illinois Central through merger, Grand Trank Western railroad locomotives had become a common sight in Cicero Illinois USA.
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