#alcoc424

The Belt Railway Company of Chicago

These images were made at Clearing Yard, Bedford Park, Illinois. I seem to recall that the BRC had an affinity for Alco locomotives. The lead unit in the first two images is an C424 built in May of 1966.

While this is a good year and a half after the Bicentennial, we see a transfer caboose as well as a switch engine in red, white, and blue paint. That locomotive in the last image is an EMD MP15DC built in June of 1975.

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway

The TP&W, sometimes called the Tip-Up by those in the business, has roots dating back to antebellum times. Later, as I understand it, the road became a bridge line between the Pennsylvania Railroad (at Effner, Illinois, on the state line with Indiana) and the Santa Fe (at Lomax, Illinois). Its western terminus was across the Mississippi River, at Keokuk, Iowa.

In any case, here are some interesting and intriguing locomotives seen in East Peoria during the latter half of the 1970s—numbers 205 and 202 are both Alco RS2s, number 400 is an Alco RS11, number 900 is an EMD GP35, number 800 is an Alco C424, and lastly number 902 is another EMD GP35—with Alco trucks no less.

Century at Night

Here we see Green Bay and Western Railroad 314, an Alco C424 built for the road in 1965. It sits at Norwood Yard, Green Bay, Wisconsin.