Here is a photo of a single track CN line running through the south suburbs of Chicago as it crosses Harlem Avenue just south of Route 30. This is the former EJ&E line as it circles around Chicago.
The photo is looking west. The EJ&E is mostly double track but, for whatever the reason, this section is single track for a few miles between Cicero Avenue in Matteson on the east and Nelson Road in New Lenox on the west.
Rich
Then: The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Depot at Joliet.
Source: Then & Now: The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad Depot – Joliet – Shaw Local
Now: The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Depot at Joliet.
Source: Then & Now: The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad Depot – Joliet – Shaw Local
Here is a black and white photo taken at the Waukegan Roundhouse of an EJ&E switcher at the northern terminus of the EJ&E mainline.
Source: Industrial History: EJ&E Waukegan Roundhouse and Coaling Tower
This photo was recently uploaded to the Preston Cook album at the Barriger Library at Flickr:
1970S-PHOTO-003-BY-PRESTON-COOK by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
