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A red and cream streetcar with the number 7-45 on its front is stopped on a city street with several vintage cars and a truck, under an overcast sky. A Chicago Surface Lines Master Unit streetcar, number 7-45, running on a street in Blue Island, Illinois, in the 1940s, with period automobiles and a truck nearby. 1947 · Ashland and Cermak, Blue Island, IL A Rock Island diesel locomotive, number 4901, painted in orange and yellow, is coupled to a matching caboose on a set of tracks in a rail yard with other trains visible in the background. Rock Island SW1200 diesel locomotive #4901 leads a caboose through a rail yard on an overcast winter day. April 23, 1978 · Blue Island, IL A red and yellow Rock Island freight locomotive numbered 4901 is parked on a set of tracks next to a matching caboose, with other trains visible in the background under a gray sky. Rock Island diesel locomotive 4901, an EMD SW1200, sits coupled to a caboose in a rail yard on an overcast winter day. April 23, 1978 · Blue Island, IL A blue and white diesel locomotive with the Rock Island 'R' logo on the front is crossing a wet street, with several cars parked nearby and a signal tower in the background. A Rock Island F7 diesel locomotive, number 652, leads a passenger train across a wet street crossing in Blue Island, Illinois, likely in the early 1970s. April 23, 1978 · Blue Island, IL Four blue and red striped Metra diesel locomotives parked side by side in a rail yard, with a gallery car attached to the lead unit, under a clear sky in winter. Four Metra F40PH diesel locomotives in blue livery with red and white striped fronts, lined up in a yard during winter. March 24, 1990 · Blue Island, IL A red, gray, and black Metra Highliner train car, number 505, shown from the front three-quarter view on a sunny day, with another car and overhead power lines in the background. A Metra Highliner electric multiple-unit car, number 505, sits in a yard with its consistent pantographs raised under overhead wires, its red, gray, and black livery clearly visible. March 24, 1990 · Blue Island, IL A Metra train led by a blue locomotive with a red and white striped nose, number 161, pulling silver double-decker Gallery cars on a winter day with bare trees and clear sky. Metra GP40 locomotive 161 at the head of a train of Gallery cars on a clear winter day. April 21, 1990 · Blue Island, IL