GreatLakesRailfan wrote:PatAzo wrote:This ought to be relatively easy. Not Michigan but a number of you have been close by.
Illinois, on the D&I line. I'm going to guess Steward, as it doesn't quite look like Big Rock...
Yes, indeed, that's Steward, IL on the BNSF's D&I line midway between Chicago and Savannah, IL. Rochelle, IL is only eight miles northwest of the above shot. The road crossing in the distance is Illinois Hwy. 2. in Steward, IL, Lee County, IL. It's just west of US-51 and I-39. The final run of the remaining passenger trains except the Empire Builder, between Chicago and the Twin Cities, MN via Rochelle, was made on May 2, 1971. The Empire Builder (now Amtrak) was rerouted via the former Milwaukee Road between Chicago and the Twin Cities, MN via Milwaukee and Wisconsin Dells, WI. That photo above is looking west.