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Belmont Road by *classictrains:iconclassictrains:

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Mid-afternoon, March 23, 1968... another of the ubiquitous Burlington Zephyr's rips up the racetrack on the way to Chicago's Union Station.

What I find interesting is how few parking spaces there were back then. Today the station is on the other side of the bridge and there are hundreds of spaces here.... I guess a re-shoot is due.

Update July 7, 2009: This shot can't be at Belmont Rd. I was out there today and there is a curve heading into what is now a grade crossing and there isn't an embankment on the right side. Also Belmont Road station used to have a platform between tracks 2 and 3. The platform is gone but the alignment of main 3 makes it clear that it used to be there.

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*SitkaReign Jul 4, 2009, 11:14:52 PM
What was it about the F series that looked so cool?

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=factorone33 Jul 4, 2009, 11:40:26 PM
Is the bridge still there? I'd think it'd be an IDEAL vantage point for shooting all sorts of stuff. Man, what I wouldn't do for something like that around here.

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*classictrains Jul 6, 2009, 10:32:08 AM
Suburban Chicago has bridges all over the dang place... in fact there has been a recent flurry of grade crossings being torn up as traffic gets diverted to bridges... the big problem is crossing traffic on foot if the next train is on the other side :-(

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I dunno... whada you think?
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*classictrains Jul 6, 2009, 10:43:16 AM
That's an interesting question... and I don't have a good answer... they just are.

BTW... and it doesn't change the question or the answer. F's had 4 wheel trucks and one prime mover... E's (which these are) had 6 wheel trucks and two prime movers under the hood. The E's rumble was distinctly different... sounded more powerful.

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*SitkaReign Jul 6, 2009, 1:38:15 PM
I think I've figured out the appeal (Fs and Es). If you shorten up the nose of a B24 Liberator, you get the railroad engine of the '50s and '60s.
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It may not have been intentional design, but the similarity is remarkable. If you've ever been near a runway when a B24 is taking off, you know what I'm talking about. Of course, we all know what it's like to be a child and near the tracks when the old diesels roared by.

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~Silverwolf-1ofmany Jul 15, 2009, 9:02:12 PM
Looks almost like a PA, too! :D

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