Former Southern Railroad boxcars. Bridgeview Illinois USA. August 2007.

I took this photo after work one evening in early August of 2007. Seen here at the outdoor loading dock of a construction materials company spur siding, is a group of three slightly grafitti tagged, pre 1982 Southern Railroad 50 foot outside braced boxcars. In the year of 1982, the Southern Railroad and the Norfolk & Western, had merged and became todays Norfolk Southern Railroad. This is an example, of how former railroad names and color schemes can still be found rolling around many years after their names and color schemes disappeared through mergers , bankruptcies or abandonements. Into the early 1990's, I would still see freight cars from the pre 1970 Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads that made up the Burlington Northern, still passing through La Grange Illinois after the fact.