Click on the above for a nice series of shots I took while flying out of Chicago in the evening, looking east toward the skyline with the sun behind me in the west. Early on is a nice series of the Bensenville Yard, one of the most impressive, and busy, rail yards in the world.
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Wow. Amazing shots.
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Doc,
The Chicago pictures are great! I have really enjoyed the entire series of pictures you take from your flights. Thanks for sharing them. -
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Rob, Steve…
I have, um… thousands more. Only time to put up short series at a time, though. Did this one last night with my kid.
Surprised that the Bensenville Yard doesn’t have something in Wikipedia yet, considering how huge and important it is.
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There is a wikipedia entry for Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, the biggest in the world, which is in North Platte, Nebraska. Bensenville – while large and the biggest on the Canadian Pacific system – isn’t even the biggest in Chicago (that honor goes to Clearing Yard which is located similarly close and south of Midway Airport). Because I’m such a rail geek i’m going to have to figure out exactly where Bensenville lies in the worldwide pecking order. I have a suspicion it doesn’t quite make the top 10.
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