Where was this photo or a 4 track diamond crossing taken?

[robwill84]

I purchased a large lot of slides and I've been going through them. There's this neat shot of garbage trucks on a TTX flat car, I'm wondering if someone can identify the location based on the distinctive diamond crossing, it looks like three tracks crossing four!

[Point353]

Joliet IL union station.

[samusi01]

Any idea of a date that this was taken?

[BruceStikkers]

The paint scheme on the flat I believe started mid 1960s and that truck design started mid 1960s and lasted through the 1970s as I remember so I am thinking late 1960s through mid 1970s.  I am trusting an old memory so someone who knows for sure is welcome to update my thoughts. I agree with the Joliet, IL crossing.

Bruce Stikkers
St. Joseph, IL

[jagged ben]

Bruce is correct, a brown Trailer Train car coupled to a 40ft boxcar with roofwalk is very 1960s.
Also reviewing pictures it appears that by 1971 the semaphores on that signal bridge (the one over the RI and PRR) were replaced and a track was removed.

[samusi01]

Thanks, the track info helps pin it down.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

This is another great opportunity to share the incredibly helpful set of pages from Bluford Shops: A timeline of railroad developments from 1945-today
1945-1965 https://www.bluford-shops.com/bluford_93_024.htm
1966-1983 https://www.bluford-shops.com/bluford_93_025.htm
1984-1995 https://www.bluford-shops.com/bluford_93_026.htm
1995-2006 https://www.bluford-shops.com/bluford_93_027.htm
2006- Now https://www.bluford-shops.com/bluford_93_028.htm

Examples from 2016:
"As of September, con-stencils are no longer required." and "Amtrak retires last AEM7".

[Doug G.]

Just think, it wouldn't be too long before those brand new garbage trucks would be totally disgusting.



Doug

[wm3798]

The original trash train?