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On a sunny, early October day in 1989 the Soo Line crew is working Midwest Zinc on Kingsbury south of North Avenue. The MP-15, still in Milwaukee Road colors, shoves the boxcar with the new load in it ahead, parking it in the middle of Kingsbury for the time being.tb_midwestzinc_101989_01
On a sunny, early October day in 1989 the Soo Line crew is working Midwest
Zinc on Kingsbury south of North Avenue. The MP-15, still in Milwaukee Road
colors, shoves the boxcar with the new load in it ahead, parking it in the
middle of Kingsbury for the time being.
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The conductor throws the switch in the street, allowing the locomotive to travel down the spur to Midwest Zinc where it will pick up an empty Southern boxcar. Once it retrieves the empty boxcar it will swap it out with the new boxcar. Midwest Zinc's spur could hold two freight cars at a time which were protected by chain link fences and gates with barbed wire on the tops.As of 2007 this spur is still in place though Midwest Zinc is long gone. A vacant lot sits in its place awaiting redevelopment. To the best of my knowledge, Midwest Zinc received its last shipment via rail in 1998 and it was torn down a short time later. Midwest Zinc was the last online rail customer south of North Avenue on the C&E Line.
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The conductor throws the switch in the street, allowing the
locomotive to travel down the spur to Midwest Zinc where it will
pick up an empty Southern boxcar. Once it retrieves the empty
boxcar it will swap it out with the new boxcar. Midwest Zinc's spur
could hold two freight cars at a time which were protected by chain
link fences and gates with barbed wire on the tops.
As of 2007 this spur is still in place though Midwest Zinc is long gone. A vacant lot sits in its place awaiting redevelopment. To the best of my knowledge, Midwest Zinc received its last shipment via rail in 1998 and it was torn down a short time later. Midwest Zinc was the last online rail customer south of North Avenue on the C&E Line.
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Evidence of past derailments are still visible in the concrete around the switch.tb_midwestzinc_101989_04
Evidence of past derailments are still visible in the concrete around the
switch.
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Chicago Terminal Railroad reopened rail service on this section in 2007.
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Chicago Terminal Railroad reopened rail service on this section in 2007.