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Viewing Album:  My old favorites
 
By:Steven Kakoczki
Dates:10/31/2009 - 1/1/2012
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Roanoke in the 60s
Title:  Roanoke in the 60s
Description:  N&W 500 rolling through Roanoke VA
Photo Date:  5/23/1960  Upload Date: 11/5/2007 7:01:14 PM
Location:  Roanoke, VA
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NW 500(GP9)
Views:  2563   Comments: 3
CB&Q at Aurora during the 60s
Title:  CB&Q at Aurora during the 60s
Description:  CB&Q waycar passing under Wood St bridge going west. Steven kakoczki/Charlie Peckmen collection
Photo Date:  5/12/1965  Upload Date: 8/20/2007 11:22:43 AM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  1132   Comments: 3
Under the Skyway!
Title:  Under the Skyway!
Description:  Chicago Short Line coming off the Rock Island and entering the BRC Comercial yard
Photo Date:  1/15/1966  Upload Date: 11/5/2007 6:56:33 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  898   Comments: 1
Old CB&Q Fan trips
Title:  Old CB&Q Fan trips
Description:  CB&Q #4960 taking on water, Mark Singer Collection
Photo Date:  3/23/1966  Upload Date: 6/25/2007 6:09:43 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  CBQ 4960(2-8-2)
Views:  828   Comments: 1
Grand Trunk 1501 on the B&OCT
Title:  Grand Trunk 1501 on the B&OCT
Description:  GT 1501 coming off the B&OCT, I wonder if he got those cars from the Rock?
Photo Date:  5/3/1967  Upload Date: 11/6/2007 11:12:59 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  GTW 1501(SW1200)
Views:  2153   Comments: 5
Who ordered the new Datsuns?
Title:  Who ordered the new Datsuns?
Description:  Ole CB&Q 97 pulling cars into N.Aurora over the I-88 tollway. (Steve Kakoczki/George Kantola collection)
Photo Date:  6/12/1972  Upload Date: 8/28/2007 4:40:58 PM
Location:  North Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  BN 97(SW1)
Views:  1632   Comments: 4
B&OCT during the 1970s
Title:  B&OCT during the 1970s
Description:  B&OCT transfer from Proviso heading to Riverdale Yard
Photo Date:  6/20/1976  Upload Date: 11/6/2007 11:08:40 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  BO 6499(GP9)
Views:  922   Comments: 0
Rush hour is almost over at Aurora
Title:  Rush hour is almost over at Aurora
Description:  BN 9906 coming into the old Aurora train station(Charlie Peekman/Steven kakoczki collection)
Photo Date:  12/2/1979  Upload Date: 8/30/2007 5:20:03 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  BN 9906(E9AM)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
Is that an old Rock unit?
Title:  Is that an old Rock unit?
Description:  GT being lead by the ex Rock 5860 / Charlie Peckman collection
Photo Date:  6/5/1981  Upload Date: 8/20/2007 2:28:05 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GTW 5860(GP38-2)
Views:  1228   Comments: 5
Galesburg in 1982
Title:  Galesburg in 1982
Description:  CI&M and BN power lay over at Galesburg during the Galesburg Railroad Days of 1982
Photo Date:  6/6/1982  Upload Date: 8/20/2008 10:26:55 PM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BN 6570(SD45) CIM 74(SD38-2)
Views:  1381   Comments: 2
Thorten Tower in its last years
Title:  Thorten Tower in its last years
Description:  Mo-Pac 4843 rolling through Thorten Jnct in better days
Photo Date:  4/14/1985  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 12:44:24 PM
Location:  South Holland, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  MP 4843(B30-7A)
Views:  827   Comments: 6
High green for the Chessie 6574
Title:  High green for the Chessie 6574
Description:  Light engine move on the old B&OCT
Photo Date:  4/16/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2007 1:51:28 PM
Location:  Brighton Park (subdivision), IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  BO 6574(GP9)
Views:  631   Comments: 0
The last section of the old High St Bridge
Title:  The last section of the old High St Bridge
Description:  The welders where cutting the last sections of the old high St bridge, after this night, it was history. This bridge was over the CB&Q Chicago mainline in Aurora, IL
Photo Date:  5/1/1985  Upload Date: 9/23/2007 1:47:21 AM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  550   Comments: 0
BN dinky tied up for the night
Title:  BN dinky tied up for the night
Description:  BN cab car at the old Aurora train station at night
Photo Date:  5/5/1985  Upload Date: 6/7/2008 1:18:42 AM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Night
Locomotives: 
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Before Soo Line, there was MILWAUKEE ROAD!
Title:  Before Soo Line, there was MILWAUKEE ROAD!
Description:  Milw 484 rolls north through McCook, IL about to cross the Santa Fe
Photo Date:  6/19/1985  Upload Date: 6/20/2008 1:15:49 AM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MILW 484(MP15AC)
Views:  462   Comments: 2
Mo pac during the middle 80s
Title:  Mo pac during the middle 80s
Description:  Mo-Pac 3514 going north on the ole CE&I crossing the GT Thorten Jnct
Photo Date:  6/24/1985  Upload Date: 7/24/2007 2:02:21 AM
Location:  South Holland, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  MP 3514(GP50)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
SP blazing through Aurora
Title:  SP blazing through Aurora
Description:  SP 7481 moving fast through the Aurora Train Station, so fast it blurred a bit! Oh well!
Photo Date:  8/3/1985  Upload Date: 9/23/2007 1:52:04 AM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7481(SD45R)
Views:  545   Comments: 0
Amtrack 308 at the Panhandle
Title:  Amtrack 308 at the Panhandle
Description:  Amtrak Statehouse moving across the Panhandle at slow speed
Photo Date:  8/8/1985  Upload Date: 9/24/2007 11:51:04 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  AMTK 308(F40PH)
Views:  625   Comments: 1
Millwaukee on the Harbor
Title:  Millwaukee on the Harbor
Description:  Milw 132 moving north on the IHB in the summer of 1985, the bridge in the background is the I-55
Photo Date:  8/8/1985  Upload Date: 9/25/2007 12:01:36 AM
Location:  Summit, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MILW 132(SD40-2)
Views:  603   Comments: 1
End of the train....
Title:  End of the train....
Description:  GT 79173 brings up the rear of a Grand Trunk train at Thorton Jct.
Photo Date:  9/9/1985  Upload Date: 4/21/2008 11:37:09 AM
Location:  South Holland, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  321   Comments: 0
C&NW 6890 moving south on the B&OCT
Title:  C&NW 6890 moving south on the B&OCT
Description:  C&NW 6890 rolls south to the Conrail yard via the B&OCT at Ash At crossing.
Photo Date:  9/20/1985  Upload Date: 6/5/2008 12:20:30 AM
Location:  Bridgeport (subdivision), IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  CNW 6890(SD40-2)
Views:  504   Comments: 1
Old Santa Fe cabooses....oh look! Heres one!
Title:  Old Santa Fe cabooses....oh look! Heres one!
Description:  ATSF 999106 rolls west on the Conrail/MC line at Porter, In.
Photo Date:  4/20/1986  Upload Date: 2/28/2012 1:56:30 PM
Location:  Porter, IN
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  257   Comments: 0
More BN E-unit shots
Title:  More BN E-unit shots
Description:  BN 9921 rolls into Aurora on track 1 while passing under the new Farnsworth overpass
Photo Date:  6/6/1986  Upload Date: 11/23/2007 11:35:35 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  BN 9921(E9AM)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
BN at Aurora 1986
Title:  BN at Aurora 1986
Description:  BN 3129 still running on track 3, but next year the track will be out of service through town, it now dead ends at Ohio St
Photo Date:  6/21/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2007 11:43:27 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 3129(GP50)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
The 1980s was great at Dolton
Title:  The 1980s was great at Dolton
Description:  SBD 8956 rolls through Dolton Junction on a sunday afternoon
Photo Date:  6/15/1987  Upload Date: 9/3/2007 11:28:26 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  SBD 8956(SD45-2)
Views:  687   Comments: 3
A big gator invasion
Title:  A big gator invasion
Description:  LS&I RSD-15s still working at Marquette michigan
Photo Date:  9/9/1987  Upload Date: 7/5/2008 3:03:15 AM
Location:  Marquette, MI
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LSI 2404(RSD15)
Views:  725   Comments: 2
Old Falcon lady takes a rest for one day. Long live the C&NW!
Title:  Old Falcon lady takes a rest for one day. Long live the C&NW!
Description:  C&NW 6857 sits in the little dispay trak at Proviso engine terminal on this fine November day.
Photo Date:  11/7/1987  Upload Date: 2/28/2012 1:58:27 PM
Location:  Northlake, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  168   Comments: 0
The only railroad to order EMD SD-45s without dynamic brakes...kinda strange.
Title:  The only railroad to order EMD SD-45s without dynamic brakes...kinda strange.
Description:  C&NW 957 waits for its next assignment at Proviso on this fine late winter day.
Photo Date:  4/9/1988  Upload Date: 9/19/2011 2:58:59 PM
Location:  Northlake, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CNW 957(SD45)
Views:  395   Comments: 1
Tiger stripes at Eola
Title:  Tiger stripes at Eola
Description:  BN GP-50 leads a westbound pig train through Aurora, is just about to pass under the EJ&E mainline
Photo Date:  6/6/1988  Upload Date: 8/26/2008 12:02:23 AM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 3113(GP50)
Views:  652   Comments: 1
Kodachrome was cool on the lead!
Title:  Kodachrome was cool on the lead!
Description:  SP 7319 rolls westbound near Pine Bluff Arkansas
Photo Date:  6/6/1988  Upload Date: 4/27/2008 2:31:38 AM
Location:  Pine Bluff, AR
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7319(SD40R)
Views:  677   Comments: 1
Like matched lugage, all three Iowa units with new paint.
Title:  Like matched lugage, all three Iowa units with new paint.
Description:  IAIS 436 rolls down the IHB. It was great to see the three matched units.
Photo Date:  9/9/1988  Upload Date: 5/20/2008 8:11:16 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 436(GP10)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
Old switcher taking a break
Title:  Old switcher taking a break
Description:  Conrail SW-7 resting in Toledo Union Station overnight
Photo Date:  11/14/1988  Upload Date: 8/19/2007 3:00:04 PM
Location:  Toledo, OH
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Night
Locomotives:  CR 8907(SW7)
Views:  419   Comments: 2
End of another great railroad...thanks CN!
Title:  End of another great railroad...thanks CN!
Description:  GT caboose pulls up the rear at the old Aurora Train Station
Photo Date:  4/4/1989  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 11:59:55 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  442   Comments: 2
GT/DT&I 6203 rolls through LaGrange
Title:  GT/DT&I 6203 rolls through LaGrange
Description:  GP-38-2 Ex DT&I 203 still working in LaGrange on this sunny sunday afternoon
Photo Date:  3/28/1990  Upload Date: 6/4/2008 11:43:15 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GTW 6203(GP38)
Views:  388   Comments: 1
E-Units at rest in Aurora II
Title:  E-Units at rest in Aurora II
Description:  Back to the 1980s when E-units ruled the tripple track raceway
Photo Date:  5/5/1990  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 11:57:07 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BN 9901(E9AM)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
E-units at rest in Aurora
Title:  E-units at rest in Aurora
Description:  E-units 9913 & 9914 laying over at Aurora while the cars get cleaned out for another day
Photo Date:  5/5/1990  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 12:04:30 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BN 9913(E9AM) BN 9914(E9AM)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
Brand new power for Santa Fe
Title:  Brand new power for Santa Fe
Description:  Brand new GP-60Ms lay over at Corwith Yard waiting for there next assignment
Photo Date:  5/5/1990  Upload Date: 4/26/2008 11:44:30 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Night
Locomotives:  ATSF 101(GP60M)
Views:  799   Comments: 2
Four GP-20s cant be bad
Title:  Four GP-20s cant be bad
Description:  The new TP&W eastbound frieght move coming into town
Photo Date:  5/23/1990  Upload Date: 10/9/2007 11:40:53 PM
Location:  Peoria, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TPW 3053(GP20u)
Views:  683   Comments: 1
Last years of the BN E-9s
Title:  Last years of the BN E-9s
Description:  E-9 taking a break for the night at Aurora Hill Yard
Photo Date:  6/1/1990  Upload Date: 5/13/2007 12:15:07 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Night
Locomotives:  BN 9919(E9AM)
Views:  519   Comments: 0
Metra on the EJ&E...could it happen?
Title:  Metra on the EJ&E...could it happen?
Description:  Metra was doing a study to see the possiblity of new service on the J
Photo Date:  8/8/1990  Upload Date: 8/30/2007 5:16:13 PM
Location:  West Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  METX 184(F40PH-2)
Views:  1130   Comments: 0
N&W Rolls east to Van Loon
Title:  N&W Rolls east to Van Loon
Description:  N&W 238 leads this train as he passes under the Cline Av RT-912, he is just a few feet away from Van loon tower.
Photo Date:  8/8/1990  Upload Date: 6/6/2010 2:17:28 AM
Location:  Griffith, IN
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NW 238(GP35)
Views:  553   Comments: 0
Delivering lumber in Lisle
Title:  Delivering lumber in Lisle
Description:  BN 1877 delivers lumber to a distribitor right next to the depot.
Photo Date:  9/9/1990  Upload Date: 4/21/2008 11:32:22 AM
Location:  Lisle, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1877(GP9)
Views:  472   Comments: 1
BN Interchange with the C&NW at West Chicago
Title:  BN Interchange with the C&NW at West Chicago
Description:  BN 1923 is ready to proceed south to Aurora on the West Chicago line.
Photo Date:  10/10/1990  Upload Date: 9/24/2010 3:06:31 AM
Location:  West Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 1923(GP9)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
C&NW locomotives at rest on a cold winters night
Title:  C&NW locomotives at rest on a cold winters night
Description:  I decided to go out and do night photography while my inlaws came to visit on this night.
Photo Date:  1/4/1991  Upload Date: 8/30/2007 5:25:38 PM
Location:  Northlake, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Night
Locomotives:  CNW 6833(SD40-2)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Who needed a bagage car?
Title:  Who needed a bagage car?
Description:  Amtrak 564 draging bagage cars out of Union Station
Photo Date:  1/5/1991  Upload Date: 8/20/2007 2:55:55 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 564(SSB1200)
Views:  501   Comments: 0
Bet little Nicky Hart would love to have shot this one..
Title:  Bet little Nicky Hart would love to have shot this one..
Description:  BN No.3 westbound at the Zoo stop in Brookfield
Photo Date:  2/4/1991  Upload Date: 8/5/2007 1:50:10 AM
Location:  Brookfield, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 2823(GP39M)
Views:  739   Comments: 2
SP in Aurora
Title:  SP in Aurora
Description:  SP SD-45 leading and a EMD research car behind the power, do not know why it was there.
Photo Date:  8/9/1991  Upload Date: 11/20/2007 9:33:15 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7488(SD45R)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
New rail coming in town
Title:  New rail coming in town
Description:  C&NW 6863 leads the way with the new rail.
Photo Date:  9/9/1991  Upload Date: 8/26/2008 12:05:34 AM
Location:  West Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNW 6863(SD40-2)
Views:  304   Comments: 2
The Wisconsin & Calumet 106!
Title:  The Wisconsin & Calumet 106!
Description:  WICT 106 runs an excursion train through Fox Lake, IL on this fine fall day.
Photo Date:  10/10/1991  Upload Date: 9/24/2010 3:07:20 AM
Location:  Fox Lake, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  WICT 106(F7A)
Views:  812   Comments: 1
9910 passing under the EJ&E at Eola
Title:  9910 passing under the EJ&E at Eola
Description:  E-9 9910 at East Eola, just passing under the EJ&E mailine
Photo Date:  10/12/1991  Upload Date: 11/23/2007 11:38:42 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Steven Kakoczki
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  BN 9910(E9AM)
Views:  355   Comments: 0

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