Circus Train

Circus Train tied-down in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the foreground and the Hanson Park station on the far right.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, Hanson Park station, index, Rail Yards, All Metra Stations, Metra MD W, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train tied-down in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, index, Rail Yards, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train tied-down in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the right background.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, index, Rail Yards, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train (on the far left) in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. The four large animal cars can be seen west of and detached from the remainder of the train. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the foreground, beside an eastbound Metra train that is approaching the Hanson Park station.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, Hanson Park station, index, Rail Yards, All Metra Stations, Metra MD W, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey & Bailey Circus tied-down in the Galewood rail yard, looking east and down from the Central Avenue bridge. The two container cars can be seen at the far end of the consist. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the yard to the left. The string of flat cars (not photographed) are on a siding behind the brush at the distant right corner of our view.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, index, Rail Yards, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey & Bailey Circus tied-down in the Galewood rail yard.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, index, Rail Yards, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train tied-down in the Galewood rail yard, looking east and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train is tied-down beside the circus train.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, index, Rail Yards, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train tied-down in the Galewood rail yard (far left), looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. It is a busy place, with a stopped westbound freight, an oncoming (eastbound) freight locomitive in the distance, a tied-down "pig" (piggyback) train, and to our right a westbound Metra bilevel commuter train is pulling into the Hanson Park station.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, Hanson Park station, index, Rail Yards, All Metra Stations, Metra MD W, photographed on 27 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train viewed from the wast in the Galewood rail yard.

(Circus Train, Circus, photographed on 28 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.

Circus Train beneath the Central Avenue overpass in the Galewood rail yard.

(Circus Train, Circus, Galewood Yard, index, Rail Yards, photographed on 28 November 1998 at Galewood rail yard).     Image size is available.