Coming to you from the city of Chicago Illinois USA!
Thursday, July 30, 2015
A former Grand Trunk Western Railroad EMD roadswitcher diesele electric locomotive waiting on a hold order. Franklin Park Illinois. July 2015.
Photographed just south of the Grand Avenue underpass viaduct.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
A 1960's era Great Northern Railroad 40 foot grain service boxcar, wearing the GN's 1967 "Big Sky Blue" color scheme.
Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O
Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois. OPSME
on Facebook.
Saturday, July 25, 2015
A northbound CSX Transportation Company freight train waiting on a hold order. Franklin Park Illinois. July 2015.
Photographed just south, of the Grand Avenue underpass viaduct.
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If you could remember hit songs like this on the charts...then you had
a really cool childhood!
A large scale model of preserved Chicago Transit Authority, 1948 St. Louis Car Company PCC streamlined electric streetcar # 4391. Photographed at the Lyons Public Library. 4209 Joliet Avenue. Lyons IIllinois. July 2015.
The prototype # 4391, is preserved and operated today at the
Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
A former Grand Trunk Western Railroad locomotive, and a CSX Transportation Company freight train wait for clearance to proceed. Franklin Park Illinois. july 2015.
Photographed just south of the Grand Avenue underpass viaduct.
A westbound BNSF Railway transfer train traveling over the Belt Railway of Chicago near Midway Airport. Chicago Illinois. April 2015.
A Kansas City Southern locomotive is leading this train.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Illinois Northern Railroad Alco S 4 diesel switchers idling outside the enginehouse on a winter morning. Chicago Illinois. Circa 1960's.
I found this photograph on the internet recently.
I was born in the city of Chicago Illinois, during 1962.
A local Chicago industrial railroad I had grown up with,
was the Illinois Northern Railroad, which was partly owned
by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, and the -
International Harvester Company.
This industrial short line railroad, interchanged with the
parent company A,T & S, F at their Corwith Yard, and
on the east end with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad at South Western and Blue Island Avenues.
The Illinois Northern was my neighborhood railroad, as
it switched the once numerous industrial spur sidings in
Chicago's Little Village neighborhood where I grew up
during the 1960's until 1972, when the Santa Fe had -
purchased the I.N from International Harvester, which
by then had already left the city of Chicago Illinois.
Online traffic dwindled on the former I.N during the
1970's and 80's. In 1996, the A,T & S,F and the
Burlington Northern Railroad merged, and became
today's BNSF Railway. The BNSF switched the
I.N branch, until approximately 2001, when it
contracted the Central Illinois Railroad, to switch
the remaining on line industries as needed. The
Central Illinois Railroad went defunct in 2010, and
the I.N branch portion from Corwith Yard to Western
Avenue, has been abandoned today.
A 1970's era Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad switching local.
I took this photograph at the Oak Park Society of Model
Engineers,H.O Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park
Illinois. OPSME on Facebook.
My Athearn model of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad CF 7 Roadswitcher diesel electric locomotive,
is viewed operating a local freight train on the club layout.
Thursday, July 16, 2015
A 1970's era Atchison, Topeka & Santa e Railroad local freight train, passing through an industrial district.
Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O
Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.
OPSME on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/290334131049961/
A former Brookfield, Salt Creek & Western Railroad steam locomotive from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, undergoing mechanical restoration. The Hesston Steam Museum. Hesston Indiana. September 2014.
For more information about this fun and very family friendly
attraction in northwest Indiana, log on to their website
at www.hesston.org.
A two train meet at Stocton.
Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O
Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.
OPSME on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/290334131049961/
A rainy night in southwest suburban Bridgeview Illinois. July 2015.
I took this photograph one night earlier this week after work.
The bright lights of the Shell / Circle K convenience gasoline
station at the intersection of West 87th Street and South Harlem
Avenue, are reflected in the wet pavement after a heavy rain
storm passed through the area.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Welcome aboard Eddie's Railfan Page! Coming to you from the city of Chicago Illinois USA!
Here I am, your host and photographer enjoying a favorite fun
activity, roller blading in Mc Cook Illinois. July 2015.
Do you enjoy viewing photos and videos of rail subjects?
Be sure to visit Eddie's Railfan Page # 2 on Facebook.
Monday, July 13, 2015
In loving memory of my beloved Stepfather, Mr Charles J. Sefrhans. 1927 -2015.
One of the kindest people I have come to know the last 44
years, was my Stepfather, Mr Charles J. Sefrhans.
"Charlie"or "Chuck" as he was known to many, lost his
battle with Luekemia on Saturday, July 4th, 2014. He
will be greatly missed, and was a very good role model
when I was growing up in Chicago during the 1970's.
Rest in peace Charlie. We all miss you.
A Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad plug door box car. La Grange Park Illinois. Early March 1990.
Heading northbound aboard a Norfolk Southern Railroad
transfer train, traveling over the Indiana Harbor Belt
Railroad, near the 31st Street railroad crossing.
A 1970's era Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad freight train, is viewed passing the depot at Stocton.
Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O
Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois. OPSME on
Facebook.
Monday, July 06, 2015
The CSX Transportation Company's West 16th Street industrial switching local at work. Cicero Illinois. September 2006.
Photographed west of South Laramie Avenue.
