Dec 23, 2019
“It's the last winter for the Erie-Lackawanna, being January, 1976, but it's still business as usual for this EL crew as they discuss yarding their transfer run in the Milwaukee Road's Bensenville yard. Just about every option had been explored to save the railroad, including being acquired by the Chessie System, but to no avail. The line would end up being included in Conrail in three months. For me, the loss of the EL was the worst of all the independent lines that went down. Sights, like this Alco C424 and the U25B in maroon and gray, would be gone forever.”
Bensenville, Illinois
January 19, 1976
Photo by Bill Johnson
(via EL C424 2405, Bensenville, IL rs | It's the last winter for … | Flickr)
