I took this photo during a June 1984 visit to the recently closed GTW Elsdon Yard site on West 51st Street, in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood. Elsdon Yard was a once busy 14 track steam era small town style freight yard on Chicago's southwest side.
A small segment of the former Elsdon Yard site just east of South Lawndale Avenue shown here, would be used as a small crew terminal for a few more years until September of 1986. A caboose hop powered by a former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton locomotive acquired through merger in 1981, is viewed departing Elsdon just north of west 51st Street.
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