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On a grey, snowy December 1, 2005, a UP local switch job pauses on the tail track alongside Magnolia St. after picking up a pair of empty hoppers from Morton Salt. This track gives the crew room to back into and out of the Morton Salt spur out of the picture and to the right or south. The crew member shown will throw the switch to let the train return to the yard via the connection across Elston Avenue.The new tail track and bumping post was put into place during reconstruction of Magnolia Street in the fall of 2004 by the City of Chicago. It relocated the previous track alignment in the street-then paved in broken asphalt and dirt-onto its own right of way. Previously UP predecessor C&NW tracks extended all the way down Magnolia and across North Avenue to reach a large Procter & Gamble plant which was torn down in the early 1990s. A scrapyard was also located on Magnolia just south of this spot until the late 1990s which used to receive gondolas.
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On a grey, snowy December 1, 2005, a UP local switch job pauses on
the tail track alongside Magnolia St. after picking up a pair of
empty hoppers from Morton Salt. This track gives the crew room to
back into and out of the Morton Salt spur out of the picture and to
the right or south. The crew member shown will throw the switch to
let the train return to the yard via the connection across Elston
Avenue.
The new tail track and bumping post was put into place during reconstruction of Magnolia Street in the fall of 2004 by the City of Chicago. It relocated the previous track alignment in the street-then paved in broken asphalt and dirt-onto its own right of way. Previously UP predecessor C&NW tracks extended all the way down Magnolia and across North Avenue to reach a large Procter & Gamble plant which was torn down in the early 1990s. A scrapyard was also located on Magnolia just south of this spot until the late 1990s which used to receive gondolas.
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The crew now heads south back to the North Avenue yard once the switch was thrown, shoving the cars ahead of the locomotive.
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The crew now heads south back to the North Avenue yard once the switch was thrown, shoving the cars ahead of the locomotive.
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Freight car first, the train crawls across Elston Avenue while a crew member flags down vehicular traffic.
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Freight car first, the train crawls across Elston Avenue while a crew member flags down vehicular traffic.
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The train crosses Elston and uphill towards the North Ave. yard.
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The train crosses Elston and uphill towards the North Ave. yard.
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The job finished at Morton Salt, the train enters the North Ave. yard. Within a few minutes this same locomotive will uncouple then head north, perhaps to other switching duties.
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The job finished at Morton Salt, the train enters the North Ave. yard.
Within a few minutes this same locomotive will uncouple then head north, perhaps to other switching duties.