tb_cejunction_1991_01
On a late afternoon in 1991 a Soo Line train leaves former Milwaukee Road street trackage on Kingsbury and heads west towards the C&NW interchange near the Kennedy Expressway. This spot is known as C&E Junction. On this particular day the train is extra long, necessitating a caboose for switching. The MP15 at the front appears to be a legacy Soo Line locomotive judging from the red-and-white paint scheme and four-digit number. The covered hoppers are empties from AKZO (International) Salt on Goose Island, while the boxcars came from perhaps Big Bay Lumber, Midwest Industrial Metals, the team track on Goose Island, or Midwest Zinc on Kingsbury. The empty gondola will probably be left behind for General Metals to fill. As recently as the early 1990s it was still possible to see trains of 20 or more freight cars.
tb_cejunction_1991_01
On a late afternoon in 1991 a Soo Line train leaves former
Milwaukee Road street trackage on Kingsbury and heads west towards
the C&NW interchange near the Kennedy Expressway. This spot is
known as C&E Junction. On this particular day the train is
extra long, necessitating a caboose for switching. The MP15 at the
front appears to be a legacy Soo Line locomotive judging from the
red-and-white paint scheme and four-digit number. The covered
hoppers are empties from AKZO (International) Salt on Goose Island,
while the boxcars came from perhaps Big Bay Lumber, Midwest
Industrial Metals, the team track on Goose Island, or Midwest Zinc
on Kingsbury. The empty gondola will probably be left behind for
General Metals to fill. As recently as the early 1990s it was still
possible to see trains of 20 or more freight cars.
tb_cejunction_1991_02
The Kingsbury St. track was part of the former Chicago & Evanston, or C&E, while the track the train is turning onto was part of the original Chicago & Pacific, or C&P. These two separate railroads merged into what eventually became the modern-day Milwaukee Road but the old C&E and C&P names were retained more than a century later. Today C&E Junction is no longer accessible to the public though it still sees rail service twice a week. The City of Chicago vacated this section of Kingsbury to General Metals which operates a huge salvage business here. General Metals generates quite a few outbound loads of gondolas of scrap for CP Rail, especially given the recent, soaring price of scrap steel (2004). CP Rail crews working Goose Island to the south or north to Peerless Confectionary and Finkl Steel must first unlock a fence on Kingsbury.
tb_cejunction_1991_02
The Kingsbury St. track was part of the former Chicago & Evanston,
or C&E, while the track the train is turning onto was part of
the original Chicago & Pacific, or C&P. These two separate
railroads merged into what eventually became the modern-day
Milwaukee Road but the old C&E and C&P names were retained
more than a century later. Today C&E Junction is no longer
accessible to the public though it still sees rail service twice a
week. The City of Chicago vacated this section of Kingsbury to
General Metals which operates a huge salvage business here. General
Metals generates quite a few outbound loads of gondolas of scrap
for CP Rail, especially given the recent, soaring price of scrap
steel (2004). CP Rail crews working Goose Island to the south or
north to Peerless Confectionary and Finkl Steel must first unlock a
fence on Kingsbury.