I took this rare, right time / right place photograph one afternoon in Melrose Park Illinois alongside Armitage Street. I was riding alongside the IHB branchline that is on the southside of Armitage Street, and just actually happened to be there when the very rarely seen IHB local was backing up slowly westbound toward Manheim Road -Illinois U.S Route # 12 / # 45. Out of view to the left is an Indiana Harbor Belt transfer caboose. This train crosses numerous industrial driveway railroad crossings with standard crossbuck signs mounted on wooden or steel beams. It is a slow moving constant stop and go operation, with one man flagging the crossing, and one man signaling the engineer via radio.
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