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Looking south at intersection of W. Willow and N. Throop. Spur terminates one block south at corner of W. Wabansia. In far distance is a Home Depot on the site of former Proctor & Gamble plant, served at one time by both Milwaukee Road (ex-C&P) from the west (They are the tracks that are still in the street just outside Sipi Metals that once crossed Elston) and CNW approaching from the south. Prior to that, site was an Illinois Steel facility.This track was used as a tail track for accessing the Aetna Plywood spur. Trains would back down this track with the locomotive in the lead, throw the switch set about where the photographer is standing, then push the boxcars alongside the Aetna Plywood building to the loading docks. The track ends at a bumping post alongside the former Kilo-Bar building.
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Looking south at intersection of W. Willow and N. Throop. Spur
terminates one block south at corner of W. Wabansia. In far
distance is a Home Depot on the site of former Proctor & Gamble
plant, served at one time by both Milwaukee Road (ex-C&P) from
the west (They are the tracks that are still in the street just
outside Sipi Metals that once crossed Elston) and CNW approaching
from the south. Prior to that, site was an Illinois Steel facility.
This track was used as a tail track for accessing the Aetna Plywood spur. Trains would back down this track with the locomotive in the lead, throw the switch set about where the photographer is standing, then push the boxcars alongside the Aetna Plywood building to the loading docks. The track ends at a bumping post alongside the former Kilo-Bar building.
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Detail of a switch stand at NW corner of Willow and Throop. Note manufacture date: 16 December 1902!mk_candp_31oct2004_4971
Detail of a switch stand at NW corner of Willow and Throop. Note manufacture date: 16 December 1902!
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Classic Chicago Switching scene. The track to the right led to Aetna Plywood where a switchback move was required.mk_candp_31oct2004_4974
Classic Chicago Switching scene. The track to the right led to Aetna Plywood where a switchback move was required.
The Aetna Plywood spur wraps around on the left.
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Looking west past bridge over N. Elston to former site of Clybourn Junction. Connection to CNW/UP/Metra veers off to the left/south. Kennedy Expressway (I-94/90) runs above abandoned segment of Bloomingdale Line.mk_candp_31oct2004_4987
Looking west past bridge over N. Elston to former site of Clybourn Junction. Connection to CNW/UP/Metra veers off to the left/south. Kennedy Expressway (I-94/90) runs above abandoned segment of Bloomingdale Line.
Switch controls for spur to Willow/N. Throop area.
Looking east to river.
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Looking west to N. Elston Ave (far background). The spur on the left served Aetna Plywood. Spurs buried beneath the concrete served the Hanna Engineering building on the right.
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Looking west to N. Elston Ave (far background). The spur on the left served Aetna Plywood. Spurs buried beneath the concrete served the Hanna Engineering building on the right.
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North Branch Chicago River. C&P swing bridge with Cortland Street drawbridge in far background.
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North Branch Chicago River. C&P swing bridge with Cortland
Street drawbridge in far background.
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Detail of C&P swing bridge w/ Finkl Steel facility sheds behind it.
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Detail of C&P swing bridge w/ Finkl Steel facility sheds behind
it.