Nice video Dan! The Grand Trunk Western had a transfer Yard just about a mile to the south of where you were shooting by the steel bridges. My father finally got a regular afternoon engineer switching job at the yard in the early 1980's after working many years at the GTW's Elsdon Yard in Chicago. I can remember how happy he was to be working at Blue Island. It wasn't many years after that the GT sadly closed down it's Chicago Yard's.
This video was shot on my 2nd birthday, we was still living on the north of Chicago at this we moved to blue Island March of 1997 also to years after this time was filmed and we live right by the Metra for 8 years
Nice video Dan! The Grand Trunk Western had a transfer Yard just about a mile to the south of where you were shooting by the steel bridges. My father finally got a regular afternoon engineer switching job at the yard in the early 1980's after working many years at the GTW's Elsdon Yard in Chicago. I can remember how happy he was to be working at Blue Island. It wasn't many years after that the GT sadly closed down it's Chicago Yard's.
Finally some amerail action on the rock island
This video was shot on my 2nd birthday, we was still living on the north of Chicago at this we moved to blue Island March of 1997 also to years after this time was filmed and we live right by the Metra for 8 years
Cool