rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Fifty-two years ago today, my brother and I took what we later referred to as our "First Annual Trip to Chicago" {there was a second trip one year and ten days later}. He {then preparing for his Freshman year of High School} and I {then preparing for my Senior year at Purdue Univ} rode the South Shore {even then known as "The Last Interurban Train in America"} to downtown Chicago. After checking passenger train schedules at South-Side stations, we spent the morning running up and down Roosevelt Road, which was well-known amongst train watchers for spanning the various tracks leading South from the Loop. In the afternoon, we took a Burlington commuter train out to their Cicero Ave station, then walked past their "Clyde" Chicago-area freight yard, then rode farther to Lagrange. We ended the day by riding back to Chicago and catching a South Shore train back to home.

At the time I {a poor college student} had only two cameras - a "Kodak Duaflex" which used "620" film and a "Kodak Instamatic 100", so I went with a pocket-full of rolls of CX620 and VP126 and returned with what turned out to be about thirty pictures.
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ATSF U30CG - I took a color photo later of the train leaving, but I seem to have lost it sometime in the last ten years


ATSF train leaving Chicago


Rock Island train arriving in Chicago


Burlington 'business car' parked just South of Roosevelt Road {so looking into the sun}


Burlington commuter train at Cicero Ave


C&O doing shuttle duty at Clyde


string of Burlington locomotives at Clyde


Burlington caboose at Clyde


Burlington "Zephyr" seen at Clyde


control car at back of Burlington commuter train at Lagrange {again looking almost directly at sun with "Instamatic 100"}

Amtrain

I'm glad you photographed my favorite subject ...TRAINS

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Thank you for your comment.

That is how I became interested in photography in general, but I remain interested in railroad photography.

Jay Pat Loc: Round Rock, Texas, USA

I enjoyed the images and the story/history!!
Enjoy your trip!
Pat

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Thank you for your comment.

If you really did enjoy this, watch for the "2nd Annual Trip" which will come on the 16th if I remember

GrayGhost

Ah Such luck. Thanks for sharing as will never get up there and those are excellent "Fallen Flags." Appreciate it
73
GG

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Thank you for your comment.

Yes, we tended to take the nearness of Chicago for granted. Incidentally we were visiting ‘old haunts’. I was three when we moved to the suburbs there, and my brother was born there a few years afterwards.