The crew for Santa Fe’s hot 199 train stands by in front of some locomotives being switched in front of the yard tower at Corwith Yard as they wait for an inbound train to pass on August 30, 1986. This busy terminal in Chicago, Illinois, is where 199 begins its daily journey to the Bay area in Richmond, California. In a few minutes, the train will clear and the crew will cross the tracks to the train seen in the background, which today is powered by a quartet of EMD GP50s.
