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Grand Trunk Western Symbol Freight 391

On January 7, 1996, I was on a whirlwind winter ramble on the southside of Chicago with Mike Abalos and his friends.

At 1:55pm, we stopped to photograph Grand Trunk Western symbol freight 391 that had stopped near 103rd Street awaiting permission to continue its journey toward Clearing Yard.

Standing at the 103rd Street grade crossing, I made this telephoto view on Kodachrome using my Nikon F3T. A few minutes later GTW 391 resumed its westward journey.

Last week, I scanned this slide that had been stored in the original Kodak box along with two dozen other images from the same trip. This is part of my on-going organization and archiving of my slide collections.

Canadian National GP40-2L 9461 leads westawrd freight 391 near 103rd Street in Chicago on January 7, 1996. This scan shows the Kodachrome image full-frame. At the time of exposure, I didn’t leave much room for cropping.

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