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General Discussion / Anyone Have Details on CPKC Steam Train Departure From Franklin Park May 8?
« on: March 18, 2024, 07:13:49 AM »
The CPKC steam train tour is stopping in Franklin Park on May 8.
https://www.cpkcr.com/en/media/CPKC-2024-Steam-Tour-Schedule-Dates
Does anyone know about what time it is scheduled to leave Franklin Park? It will be a mob scene there so I am hoping to get photos of the train as it heads west instead.
https://www.cpkcr.com/en/media/CPKC-2024-Steam-Tour-Schedule-Dates
Does anyone know about what time it is scheduled to leave Franklin Park? It will be a mob scene there so I am hoping to get photos of the train as it heads west instead.
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General Discussion / Cool Picture of Streetcar Crossing MILW Tracks Outside Wrigley Field
« on: July 14, 2023, 07:29:43 PM »
Not sure if this picture has been posted here before or not...
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General Discussion / "New" Freight Customer on the West Side?
« on: November 16, 2021, 08:24:21 PM »
I stopped by yesterday and got some shots of Marcell's Paper & Metal Recycling at 4221 West Ferdinand and got some pictures of a pair of boxcars on a spur that runs between the street and the building and which is attached to UP. At another site I presume they operate at 4330 West Ohio Street were more boxcars on a different spur that comes off what is left of the connection to the Cragin Line which is abandoned on its southern end.
Are they a relatively new customer?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/51684298402
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/51682683301/in/dateposted-public/
Are they a relatively new customer?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/51684298402
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/51682683301/in/dateposted-public/
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Modeling / Railroad Model Craftsman Features "Kingsbury Line" June 2021
« on: June 02, 2021, 02:51:35 PM »
The latest issue of RMC features an HO layout supposedly based on the Kingsbury Line aka C&E Line in Chicago in the Chicago Terminal era. It's full of nicely done street trackage but it does not resemble any of the actual industries or settings that CTM served. The author is clear that they were not going for a full-on prototype model but instead wanted to capture the feel of the former CTM operations.
The layout was built by a newly reconstituted model railroad club at Illinois Tech formerly known as the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The layout was built by a newly reconstituted model railroad club at Illinois Tech formerly known as the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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General Discussion / Online Collection of Milwaukee Road Track Diagrams of C&E, Deering, Etc. Lines
« on: March 02, 2021, 08:40:05 AM »
I posted a new track diagram from the Milwaukee Road that shows the C&E Line from Altgeld north to School yesterday on Flickr.
For those who have not seen them before or do not follow me on Flickr there are a number of vintage track diagrams posted in this collection that cover the C&E, Deering, and Bloomingdale Lines plus Goose Island and more.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157715114878692
For those who have not seen them before or do not follow me on Flickr there are a number of vintage track diagrams posted in this collection that cover the C&E, Deering, and Bloomingdale Lines plus Goose Island and more.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157715114878692
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General Discussion / New Photo of Boxcars Alongside Wrigley Field in Facebook
« on: January 31, 2020, 10:32:09 AM »
This image was uploaded to a Facebook group for Abandoned Railroads this week.
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General Discussion / Cool YouTube Video-Cab Ride in UP Locomotive to Blommer from North Avenue
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:26:38 PM »
I just came across this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnAyZpKhQo
Since Blommer does not have a TrackMobile or similar device on the lower level that I have seen how did it push the empty tank car away from its spur for pickup by UP? I have seen tank cars spotted on those tracks near but not alongside Blommer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnAyZpKhQo
Since Blommer does not have a TrackMobile or similar device on the lower level that I have seen how did it push the empty tank car away from its spur for pickup by UP? I have seen tank cars spotted on those tracks near but not alongside Blommer.
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General Discussion / UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
« on: July 06, 2018, 10:28:05 AM »
Chicago Junction is taking over from Chicago Terminal.
I wonder how Chicago Junction got the rights to use this name as the original Chicago Junction on the South Side is now part of NS? Normally Class I carriers like NS like to keep the rights to use the heritage names and symbols.
https://www.stb.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/8a3697b0d0629093852582820051e606/$FILE/245642.pdf
I wonder how Chicago Junction got the rights to use this name as the original Chicago Junction on the South Side is now part of NS? Normally Class I carriers like NS like to keep the rights to use the heritage names and symbols.
https://www.stb.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/8a3697b0d0629093852582820051e606/$FILE/245642.pdf
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General Discussion / New Map Names C&E, Bloomingdale, and Deering Lines...Too Late
« on: June 10, 2018, 10:58:08 AM »
I noticed on www.historicaerials.com that they now have the correct names for the former Milwaukee Road lines on the North Side. Too bad that it is a moot point now. They even label the C&E line north of Clybourn. Here's a sample.
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General Discussion / Chicago Terminal Evicted from North Avenue Yard?
« on: March 20, 2018, 09:22:49 PM »
I took the train in today and noticed that the Chicago Terminal switcher and several of those reefers were parked behind Sipi Metals on the track that connected its former Milwaukee Road lines to the UP North Avenue Yard. In the past the Chicago Terminal switcher was always parked alongside the North Avenue Yard office.
I wonder if UP forced them off the UP property? Plus a previous STB filing showed that Chicago Terminal was behind on their lease payments on this locomotive to a third party which was going to try to recover it but that was all the way back in August.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/26056808527/in/dateposted-public/
I wonder if UP forced them off the UP property? Plus a previous STB filing showed that Chicago Terminal was behind on their lease payments on this locomotive to a third party which was going to try to recover it but that was all the way back in August.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/26056808527/in/dateposted-public/
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General Discussion / Last Chicago Terminal Train in Chicago
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General Discussion / Developer Alloy Property Seeks Adverse Abandonment of Chicago Terminal Lines
« on: August 29, 2017, 07:22:32 AM »
This filing by Alloy Property seeks an adverse abandonment of the Chicago Terminal lines on the North Side. Interesting read.
https://www.stb.gov/Filings/all.nsf/WEBUNID/116243E729EA78A685258133005EC6B3?OpenDocument
https://www.stb.gov/Filings/all.nsf/WEBUNID/116243E729EA78A685258133005EC6B3?OpenDocument
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General Discussion / Got Tank Cars? Goose Island Now Does-Two Dozen or So Delivered This Week
« on: August 26, 2017, 04:09:30 PM »
Chicago Terminal this week shoved a long string of tank cars down Kingsbury and onto Goose Island on August 20. To the best of my knowledge it is the first time that tank cars have been on Goose Island since National By-Products at Blackhawk and North Branch closed circa 1990. It is also the most amount of freight cars at one time on Goose Island since the 1970s. By the early 1980s the Division Street Yard was a ghost of itself and for several years International Salt did not get deliveries by rail but instead by ship. It restored rail service when the river silted in too much for ships to go that far.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23688072@N06/36577919342/in/pool-1793636@N21
I took a drive around there this morning and took a number of pictures. Tank cars are stored on the lead to Goose Island at North Avenue and at four different places on Goose Island itself including on track that has not seen a train since Akzo Salt closed by 1999.
Scroll down to the bottom of this album to see tank cars all over Goose Island!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157657870065262
Tom
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23688072@N06/36577919342/in/pool-1793636@N21
I took a drive around there this morning and took a number of pictures. Tank cars are stored on the lead to Goose Island at North Avenue and at four different places on Goose Island itself including on track that has not seen a train since Akzo Salt closed by 1999.
Scroll down to the bottom of this album to see tank cars all over Goose Island!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157657870065262
Tom