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Dennis DeBruler commented on Keith's comment It makes sense that the coaling tower would have been replaced by diesel fuel tanks.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. |
Joseph Tuch Santucci posted MoPac short bay window caboose at Yard Center in Dolton, IL on 1984. These were road cabooses built new in MoPac’s Sedalia and DeSoto, MO car shops. They had electricity, radios, flush toilets and cushioned draft gear but because of their short car bodies, no bunks. Craig Cloud: Mopac, Family Lines had'em as well. Question is when did agreements disappear of assigned crew and caboose? Joseph Tuch Santucci: Craig Cloud the Family Lines version were built by FGE in Alexandria, VA. They were quite similar but also somewhat different. When I started at MoPac in 1978 there were no assigned cabooses to through freight conductors, they were all pool cabooses. We did have a couple of downgraded road cabooses in Chicago that were normally assigned to the city run and Clearing run. They had been fortified with heavy mesh over the windows and bars for the doors. They were dubbed the “war wagons.” These two came about after a conductor got robbed on a caboose when a perpetrator kicked the door in. |
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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