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This rare photo from Doug Kaniuk's collection shows Lissner Metal's switcher caught outside the Lissner site on the Milwaukee Road's own tracks sometime prior to the mid-1970s on Goose Island. The setting is North Branch St. just south of Bliss St. and north of the Ogden Ave. overpass. The brick building behind the switcher was used by Pickens-Kane, and formerly by the defunct, Chicago area department store chain Wieboldts.As of 2003, Lissner Metal's site has been razed, though the spur track that connected it to the outside world is still in place on the southwest side of North Branch St. The Pickens-Kane building is abandoned but you can still see a segment of its spur from the southeast side of the building where the spur enters a dark, canyon-like corridor with loading bays on the side. CP Rail, successor to the Milwaukee Road, ended service on this segment of the line south of Bliss St. in the late 1990s when AKZO Salt shut down their North Branch location.
According to former Milwaukee Road employee, Frank Urbanowitz, this switcher may have been on the Milwaukee Road track and outside the plant awaiting movement to another rail-served Lissner site somewhere in Chicago.
Compare this photo with others from the same location in 1990 where the Milwaukee Road track on which the Lissner switch was parked is on the left (east) alongside the Pickens-Kane building. Lissner Metals is behind the chain-link fence and dumpster to the right of the train and street.
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dk_lissnergooseisland_1970_01
This rare photo from Doug Kaniuk's collection shows Lissner Metal's
switcher caught outside the Lissner site on the Milwaukee Road's
own tracks sometime prior to the mid-1970s on Goose Island. The
setting is North Branch St. just south of Bliss St. and north of
the Ogden Ave. overpass. The brick building behind the switcher was
used by Pickens-Kane, and formerly by the defunct, Chicago area
department store chain Wieboldts.
As of 2003, Lissner Metal's site has been razed, though the spur track that connected it to the outside world is still in place on the southwest side of North Branch St. The Pickens-Kane building is abandoned but you can still see a segment of its spur from the southeast side of the building where the spur enters a dark, canyon-like corridor with loading bays on the side. CP Rail, successor to the Milwaukee Road, ended service on this segment of the line south of Bliss St. in the late 1990s when AKZO Salt shut down their North Branch location.
According to former Milwaukee Road employee, Frank Urbanowitz, this switcher may have been on the Milwaukee Road track and outside the plant awaiting movement to another rail-served Lissner site somewhere in Chicago.
Compare this photo with others from the same location in 1990 where the Milwaukee Road track on which the Lissner switch was parked is on the left (east) alongside the Pickens-Kane building. Lissner Metals is behind the chain-link fence and dumpster to the right of the train and street.