Train Photography

[photog999]

I was going thru my dad's extensive slide collection and have scanned some of my favorite train pictures to share with everyone one here. Most of the slides I'm scanning are from the late 50's to the late eighties or so. Even tho dad spent 33 years in the fire service, he was a huge train buff.First slide is from a now long gone railroad, The Chicago & Great Western which ran about 3 blocks from my house. They were bought about by the Chicago & North Western in the late 60's and their trackage thru the Chicago area was all pulled up by the early 70's. Here is a shot of a westbound freight holding short of Taft Ave to allow an eastbound freight to clear the single track territory that started about a mile farther west of Taft Ave in Elmhurst. The power is 2 EMD SD40's, both built in 1966 along with 2 FB units. Photo is from May 1968.