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General Discussion / Re: MILW ROW under Ravenswood
« on: January 25, 2020, 11:31:03 AM »
About 12 shots to the right of this is an April 1986 photo of the Milw switcher on Lakewood after switching Peerless
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General Discussion / Re: RDC's by Tribune Tower!
« on: June 06, 2018, 09:09:30 PM »
C&NW obtained a couple/few RDCs from the Chesapeake & Ohio and ran them as an experiment in place of regular low-revenue scoots including on the Weber Sub.
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General Discussion / Re: CTA L Car In Parking Lot At Canalport and Cermak! Parallel to BNSF Tail Track
« on: November 24, 2014, 01:12:17 AM »
The car popped-up there a couple years ago and immediately felt like it was affiliated with the new art studio in the West end of the adjacent warehouse building on the property. The C name has been present
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General Discussion / Re: rail bridge vs. trucks
« on: February 24, 2013, 12:41:05 PM »
per Sun-Times item yesterday (video on website) one section was floated to location yesterday midday. Delay in transit occurred when a lock (down) was found stuck on the Congress roadway span
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General Discussion / Re: rail bridge vs. trucks
« on: February 22, 2013, 05:31:43 PM »
the two pieces match the center-most halves of both sides, not the mechanical business ends, and correspond to the primer/non-primer portions on the existing bridge
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General Discussion / Re: rail bridge vs. trucks
« on: February 21, 2013, 09:32:01 AM »
it's in two dbl-decked pieces. no pix yet
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General Discussion / Re: rail bridge vs. trucks
« on: February 14, 2013, 07:53:46 PM »
I'll try to swing by there for pix. I thought I read the entire Wells bridge was to be replaced.
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General Discussion / Re: rail bridge vs. trucks
« on: February 13, 2013, 08:53:26 PM »
As it grows it's looking more like 1/2 of the planned new Wells St. El/auto span over the main branch. They must be going to float it down the South Branch.
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General Discussion / Re: rail bridge vs. trucks
« on: January 30, 2013, 06:46:25 PM »
Rail wins vs. trucks! The IC/ChicagoAndAlton's old dbl track bascule bridge over the South Branch hasn't operated in decades. The high-level operators shack was lost to fire over 20 years ago. It appears a replacement stationery bridge is being built by cranes on a barge in Bubbly Creek. It'd be nice to see it hoisted into place.
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General Discussion / Re: Pictures online
« on: March 21, 2012, 01:01:21 AM »
hi quality shots. What megapixels !
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General Discussion / Re: State Street Yard in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
« on: January 04, 2012, 01:03:34 AM »
could be mis-labeled, The old Sun-Times (now Trump Tower) replaced the State St. Yard
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General Discussion / Re: Navy Pier Line @ Navy Pier!!
« on: December 14, 2011, 01:39:30 AM »
primo!!, the pier is a dead-end now, a down-town circulator via carroll ave / N.Water would blend old and new
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General Discussion / Re: Freight Traffic
« on: December 06, 2011, 02:13:24 AM »
they were there Friday, just what we want to see, those center-beams do impress
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General Discussion / Re: circus train??
« on: November 07, 2011, 01:50:59 AM »
the circus is back in town. Sun Times website complete with pictures shows several ringling bros. elephants walking nose-to-tail visiting orchard place elementary in des plaines. The train must be nearby.
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General Discussion / Re: More Chicago Flickr pics
« on: November 07, 2011, 01:46:12 AM »
In the background in one of the shots you can see the superstructure of the old C&E swing bridge to Union Station. The street in the foreground the cuts of cars are severed for no longer exists.