I took this photo looking north on Harlem Avenue / Illinois U.S Route # 72 -and West 111th Street in southwest suburban Worth Illinois.This was the newest and last corporate logo from the pre 1982 Norfolk Southern predecessor railroad Norfolk & Western. This railroad crossed South Harlem Avenue at street leval with railroad crossing gates, untill this bridge and grade seperated embankment were constructed in the year of 1979. The NW logo shown here, dates from 1971, replacing a circular N & W logo from 1964 that resembled a hamburger. This modern NW logo was used untill N & W and the Southern Railroad merged and formed todays Norfolk Southern Railroad in the year of 1982. Prior to the year of 1964, this railroad line was originally the Wabash Railroad, wich N&W merged with.
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