C&EIHS posted Dennis DeBruler shared Keith Meacham: Looks like Yard Center and this was taken off Sibley Boulevard. |
Dennis DeBruler commented on Keith's comment It makes sense that the coaling tower would have been replaced by diesel fuel tanks. |
1953 Calumet Lake and Calumet City Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
Mark Hinsdale posted
"The Set Up..."
Brand new from Electro Motive at La Grange, L&N SD40-2 #3588, in Family Lines paint, gets prepped for service on a sunny afternoon at the joint Missouri Pacific-Louisville & Nashville locomotive facility in Yard Center (South Holland) IL. September, 1977 photo by Mark Hinsdale
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1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
Update:
Steven J. Brown posted three photos with the comment:
It was a gray Sunday in Chicago. Someone with a drivers license was driving me around Chicago's south suburbs to various rail yards taking roster shots of the locos hanging around.
Here is a sample of what was present at Missouri Pacific's Yard Center in Dolton, Illinois - July 24, 1977.
1 Louisville and Nashville GP7 392 [Note the coaling tower in the background.] |
2 MoPac GP18 1929 Lisa Renee Ragsdale Is there a GP18 among these guys? Thank you. Jeff Lewis AAR trucks! |
3 MoPac U30C 3305 |
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society posted 50 years ago today wrecker crane A-2 at Yard Center, IL on September 9, 1967. |
Bill Molony posted The Chicago & Eastern Illinois yard tower at Dolton - 1912. |
Bill Bielby posted I'm standing in front of C&EI locomotive 1600, "The Whippoorwill," at the line's Dolton, IL facility at 147th (Sibley Blvd) and Indiana Ave. Around 1955 |
Nathan Mackey posted Wandering around the Yard Center facility. Oct. '98 Dennis DeBruler I had a brain burp as to where Yard Center was. I knew it was on UP's "south spoke." I see the engine servicing facilities are west of the intermodal yard. https://www.google.com/.../@41.6259042,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
Michael Brandt posted A great shot of the Union Pacific Railroad yard from Sibley Blvd. To the left is what you see from Indiana Ave, nowadays all you see is a huge dumping ground for shipping containers stacked at least 30ft tall. When the people on Indiana Ave look out their front window it's all they see. |
Street View, Jun 2023 |
C&EIRHS shared Jim Prrfan's post L&N meets the MO Pac at Yard Center Dolton ILL. no date. Jim PRRFan photo Photo from 35mm slide. Craig Cloud: Early mid 1970's guessing Kevan Davis: L&N GP 30 (1037) CEI/MP (84) GP7 rebuilt with low nose larger fuel tank and a MP SD40. |
You can see a water tower in the background of the above photo. But this photo shows that they had two of them. And they were exceptionally tall.
Bill Molony posted Chicago & Eastern Illinois class C-2 0-8-0 switch engine #1800 at Yard Center in Dolton on August 4, 1947. Dennis DeBruler Not only two water towers, those towers were tall. |
Mike Breski posted [Some of the comments discuss the clay pits used by brick companies including a map.] |
Bill Molony posted Chicago & Eastern Illinois class H-6-b 2-8-0 Consolidation-type #930, taking on water at Yard Center in Dolton, Illinois on September 9, 1948. |
Jim French posted MP 1556 (or 1558) switching at Yard Center, IL in Jan 1980. I can’t figure this one out - look at the number boards versus the side numerals. All I can figure is that part of the Scotchlight ‘8’ perfectly peeled off. Jim French photo. |
Digitally Zoomed, at photo resolution [Some comments indicate that the "orange things" may be the casings for a compressor blower or a centrifugal pump.] |
Gary Sturm posted FRISCO #682 and L&N #4005 at YARD CENTER in Dolton, Illinois in 1974. |
Thank you for an interesting blog site. About the Dolton, Illinois photo from circa 1900 to 1912, one key aspect is the Y.M.C.A. building that was pre-identified on the photo. The structure was built in 1904 by the Chicago architectural firm of Atchison & Edbrooke. This comes from the "Daily Inter-Ocean" magazine of 12 June 1904, Sec. Four, page 2, and from other Chicago architectural news of the era.
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