#c424

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.

I just finished up the paint and detail on my custom Belt Railway of Chicago C424. The decals aren't perfect, but it looks great from 2 feet and should pull pretty well.

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.

Smokin’ at McCook by Moffat Road on Flickr.

Caption: “After waiting for a couple of Santa Fe trains to clear the diamond, a long and heavy Belt Railway of Chicago freight gets its turn on the crossing at McCook, Illinois, on September 6, 1986. Alco C424s Nos. 605 and 603 power the southbound train operating on the Indiana Harbor Belt main line.”

McCook, Illinois

September 6, 1986