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THEN: An overgrown Northern Central Railroad line runs by Monkton Station in 1979. The line was converted to a rail trail in 1984. (William H. Mortimer, Baltimore Sun, 1979)
NOW: Monkton Station is seen in 2016 at mile 7.2 along the Torrey C. Brown Trail, the popular rails-to-trail that stretches 20 miles from Hunt Valley to the Pennsylvania state line on the former Northern Central Railroad line. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun, 2016)
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Kansas City Missouri, 1912. Union Station under Construction.
When completed, it would be the 3rd largest station in the United States.
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Replacing the International Railway Bridge, 1896-7, Niagara Falls New York.
John Roeblings famous rail suspension bridge, had become too small for the increasing size of train engines and length of trains by the 1890s. Yet it was too important to take out of service while being replaced, so engineer Leffert L Buck, who had been hired to build the new span, built the new bridge around the old. one, a feat made possible by the the new bridge was an arch design, and would not interfere with the towers and cable of Mr Roeblings bridge.
When the new bridge was completed, the old bridge was dismantled, the last bits removed by August 27, 1897. The New Bridge took the uninspiring name of The Lower Steel Arch Bridge until 1937 when it was renamed the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge.
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Railroad Mandala by Shintaro Kago is printed in SHISHI RUIRUI (Pile of Dead Poems). Softcover book is A4 size. SIGNED copies are available for purchase at akatako.
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James Pugh Kirkwood – Scientist of the Day
James Pugh Kirkwood, an American civil engineer, died Apr. 22, 1877, at the age of 70.
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“F40C class leader No. 600 is pushing a commuter train to Chicago on the former Milwaukee Road in Northbrook, Illinois, and is thus headed away from the camera. (Scanned from color negative film)”
May 20, 1998
Photo by Craig Sanders
Great Northern steam locomotives (1862 and 1924)
Library of Congress
“Metra’s Milwaukee Road heritage unit leads the Pullman special North through Chicago, IL.”
May 15, 2022
Photo by Robby Gragg
“Amtrak’s ‘Day One’ 50th Anniversary heritage unit, ALC-42 number 301, swings through the tight North Canal Street curve, just a couple minutes from its final arrival at Chicago Union Station with train 8, the eastbound Empire Builder. To the right, the old Cassidy Tire building, long a local landmark, is being demolished, presumably to make way for more condos- this is a hot area in real estate.”
May 25, 2022
Photo by Jonathan Lee
Chicago & North Western Clinton Street interlocking
Chicago
August 11, 1976
Photo by Mike Abalos
The recently demolished Cassidy Tire building is in the background.
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Glenn Yard
Chicago
June 1975
Photo by Mark Llanuza
“CTA 2041 at Hamlin on the Lake Street L, signed as a B train, sometime between 1964 and 1969.”
“On March 29, 1943, the first official Chicago Rapid Transit Company train heads into the north portal of the new State Street Subway, then still under construction. Only one track was in service, and the south portal was still being built. Test rides were being given to servicemen and war bond buyers. The official opening was on October 17th.”
“New York Central loco 5287, a 4-6-4, heads south at Roosevelt Road on August 24, 1954.”
Chicago
Photo by David R. Sweetland
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BN 9910, 14th Street coach yard
Chicago
September 30, 1981
“The locomotive servicing facility at Chicago was known as the Zephyr Pit. A hold over from when the CB&Q’s fleet of passenger trains was based here.”
Metra E-unit with Amtrak detour Chicago IL 1993
“It’s July 1993 the great floods of the Mississippi River caused many detours on other railroads. The San Francisco Zephyr detoured over the C&NW Iowa division making Amtrak to lease Metra E-units to lead for cab signals. In the shot it’s leaving Chicago at Racine Ave.”
Photo by Mark Llanuza
Amtrak
Griffith, Indiana
June 1976
GM&I - ICG Junction
Argo, Illinois
1980
Photo by D.W. Davidson
The Guardian: Bob Dylan unveils his largest-ever sculpture, of a railway freight car
The Guardian: Bob Dylan unveils his largest-ever sculpture, of a railway freight car.
Bob Dylan unveils his largest-ever sculpture, of a railway freight car
Railways are a repeated feature of Dylan’s painting, and he wrote about them in his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One: “I’d seen and heard trains from my earliest childhood days and the sight and sound of them always made me feel secure. The big boxcars, the iron ore cars, freight cars, passenger trains, Pullman cars. There was no place you could go in my home town without at least some part of the day having to stop at intersections and wait for the long trains to pass.”
“Under code blue skies and on home rails, M-CHIGAL (Hodgkins, IL - Galesburg, IL) heads west for work in Joliet Yard with BNSF 167 (GP60) in original Santa Fe Blue Bonnet colors, trailing is 3 BNSF H4 EMDs of a GP38-2, SD40-2, and a SD60M. Seen here at the classic spot of Lemont, IL, crossing the 124 year old former swing bridge over the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub.”
Lemont, Illinois
May 7, 2022
Photo by James Bradley
Rock Island E-units
New Lenox, Illinois
November 1978
Photo by Mark Llanuza
FromClassic Trains:
On Chicago’s L:
A four-car Chicago Aurora & Elgin train heads away from the Loop as a Chicago Rapid Transit train heads inbound. Below the train are the south platforms of Chicago Union Station.
Photo by Don Sims
