Westbound Union Pacific RR transfer train. Hayford Junction. Chicago Illinois USA. April 1987.

Seen here on a lovely spring afternoon in 1987, is a westbound Union Pacific Railroad transfer train heading to Clearing Yard. When I photographed this scene at Hayford junction, The north / south Grand trunk Western mainline was still a double track mainline. The following year, the GTW would reduce their mainline through here to a single track line. The Union Pacific train is passing over the GTW crosstracks over Belt Railway of Chicago trackage. On the head end of the Union Pacific transfer, are two late 1970's vintage EMD GP-15 light roadswitchers. Hayford Junction is located at west 76th Street and south St. Louis Avenue in Chicago's Ashburn neighborhood, not far from Richard J.Daley College.