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General Discussion / cool updates coming this week

« on: November 15, 2010, 10:17:45 AM »

The last batch is up!  Sorry, completely forgot to upload on Saturday.

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General Discussion / cool updates coming this week

« on: November 12, 2010, 09:28:31 AM »

C&E south photos are up!  Check out the Milwaukee Road coach on Kingsbury.  Anyone know anything about that?

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / cool updates coming this week

« on: November 11, 2010, 08:51:35 AM »

C&E Line North (Lakewood Branch) photos are up.  This is my favorite set.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / cool updates coming this week

« on: November 10, 2010, 09:22:56 AM »

Deering Line Photos are up.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / cool updates coming this week

« on: November 09, 2010, 08:47:11 AM »

The Dunning Line photo series is up.  This kicks off the expansion of our site into this area.

Tomorrow, the Deering Line.  Tell your friends!

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / cool updates coming this week

« on: November 08, 2010, 02:01:43 PM »

Every day this week, we will be posting an article with rare photos that were taken by the Milwaukee Road in a 1980 Chicago lines abandonment study.  These photos were discovered in 2004 while clearing out the Galewood Yard offices.  The MRHA has given us permission to post.

Here is our schedule:

Tuesday:  Dunning Line
Wednesday:  Deering Line
Thursday:  C&E North (Lakewood)
Friday:  C&E South (Kingsbury)
Saturday: Goose Island

Thanks to Tom Burke for scanning them, in addition to writing great captions.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / No Guesses so Far For New Mystery Photo???

« on: May 11, 2010, 09:21:26 PM »

Impressive Doug.  What gave it away?

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tom mann
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General Discussion / new version up

« on: April 29, 2010, 09:41:04 AM »

Hey everyone,

The new version of ChicagoSwitching is now uploaded.  I converted almost the entire site from table-based html to css.  The site runs a little better on mobile devices, and is a little quicker to load.

Also, I increased the size and resolution of the thumbnail photos from 125px to 225px.  Back in 2002, I was paying a lot for bandwidth and settled on a small thumbnail size.  This isn\'t so much of a concern now days!

We are also bringing back the Mystery Photo Contest.  Thanks to Tom Burke\'s patience in waiting for me to update the site before this cool addition.

Have fun and let me know if anything is broken!

Thanks, Tom Mann

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / CNW Pic ture at Clinton

« on: February 04, 2010, 10:58:49 PM »

http://chicagoswitching.com/v5/articles/article.asp?articleid=80

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tom mann
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General Discussion / Found some more vintage shots on Flickr

« on: December 22, 2009, 03:36:56 PM »

Chuck,

Would you mind contacting him and asking if we can repost here?

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / Milwaukee Road in Chicago pics

« on: October 22, 2009, 08:20:39 AM »

Awesome, thanks for finding them.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / Cool Chicago Railroads Map From 1904

« on: August 17, 2009, 09:46:54 AM »

Interesting to see the track layout at the \"insane asylum\" on the Dunning Line.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / Elk Grove Village/ Bensenville Industrial District

« on: August 10, 2009, 12:29:17 PM »

Hi,

I\'m looking for photos of the Elk Grove Village / Bensenville Industrial District in the Milwaukee Road era.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / good resource

« on: July 31, 2009, 10:14:29 AM »

http://milwaukeeroadarchives.com/IndexPage.htm

Lots of good magazine scans, reports, and information.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / Ogden Ave viaduct/ROW pics

« on: July 14, 2009, 08:43:44 AM »

Great shots.

Mark - did you send me some from 1992?  I thought I had everything of yours on the site?

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com