Opening Day Photo Essay

Thanks to fearless photographer Steven Jam, who was visiting the museum on Sunday for Opening Day and sent us a selection of photos from the day's festivities.

The Track Department has been hard at work replacing ties on the west track of 50th Avenue.

Here's a shot of the future location of the gantlet track switch. Since the present 'L' station replaced Yard 1 about 45 years ago, the east track has been "narrow" (i.e. Chicago 'L' width) and the west track has been "wide" (steam road width - or, more applicably, South Shore/Illinois Central MU width). But the plan has always been to eventually put in a gantlet track on the west side so that either wide or narrow cars could use it.

The service car for opening day, North Shore 749, at Car Line Junction.

Here's Larry Lavery from the Strahorn Library speaking at the Mitch Markovitz art exhibition opening ceremony. Mitch is to the right with his hand raised.

The unveiling...

...and voila!

Here's our president, Nick Espevik, speaking in front of a second piece of artwork that was also unveiled, one focused on IRM. The artist is to the right.

Here's Mitch speaking to the assembled attendees.