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General Discussion / Re: New Chicago Terminal Picture
« on: March 19, 2019, 04:09:18 PM »I wonder if Iowa Pacific's is still having financial issues? If so maybe they hold on to it and use it to their advantage? Write off the loss, make the company look larger than it is.
On that note, how does the ownership of the Goose Island/Finkl/Street right of way work? Can that be sold to the developers?
There was a proposal in front of the City of Chicago to acquire the Chicago Terminal ROW in December. Not sure what the outcome was but it seems like they are including a streetcar line in any plans that Sterling Bay and other developers have for the former Finkl and other industrial sites. A new bridge and connection would have to be built over the Chicago River near Halsted and Chicago Avenue for this streetcar line which would then presumably run down the west bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River to the major train stations.
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General Discussion / Re: New Chicago Terminal Picture
« on: March 13, 2019, 07:13:52 PM »
Thanks for sharing. I missed it the first time.
I drove past there yesterday and noticed the Chicago Terminal SW on the Sipi spur and the reefers covered in graffiti on the old Rolling Mill Yard track. I don't understand how Chicago Terminal can justify keeping this operation alive for the occasional load for Sipi. They make what, a few hundred dollars per movement as a flat switching fee from UP?
I drove past there yesterday and noticed the Chicago Terminal SW on the Sipi spur and the reefers covered in graffiti on the old Rolling Mill Yard track. I don't understand how Chicago Terminal can justify keeping this operation alive for the occasional load for Sipi. They make what, a few hundred dollars per movement as a flat switching fee from UP?
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General Discussion / Cool YouTube Video-Cab Ride in UP Locomotive to Blommer from North Avenue
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:26:38 PM »
I just came across this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnAyZpKhQo
Since Blommer does not have a TrackMobile or similar device on the lower level that I have seen how did it push the empty tank car away from its spur for pickup by UP? I have seen tank cars spotted on those tracks near but not alongside Blommer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAnAyZpKhQo
Since Blommer does not have a TrackMobile or similar device on the lower level that I have seen how did it push the empty tank car away from its spur for pickup by UP? I have seen tank cars spotted on those tracks near but not alongside Blommer.
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General Discussion / Re: Changes to Tribune Printing plant area move along
« on: February 15, 2019, 07:23:33 PM »
Looks like Tribune Publishing is moving ahead with plans to sell the Freedom Center printing press site. That will create a dilemma for not just the print edition of the Tribune but also the other newspapers it prints there under contract like the Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tribune-media-river-district-sale-20190215-story.html
The only other place with the capacity to take it over would be the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's relatively new and very underutilized printing press in West Milwaukee. And that would create potential delays in morning deliveries. The South Bend Tribune shut down its printing press and outsourced it to a newspaper group in the Grand Rapids area but it has experienced delivery issues as a result of the distance.
The Daily Herald printing press in the Roselle/Schaumburg area off I-390 is too small.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tribune-media-river-district-sale-20190215-story.html
The only other place with the capacity to take it over would be the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's relatively new and very underutilized printing press in West Milwaukee. And that would create potential delays in morning deliveries. The South Bend Tribune shut down its printing press and outsourced it to a newspaper group in the Grand Rapids area but it has experienced delivery issues as a result of the distance.
The Daily Herald printing press in the Roselle/Schaumburg area off I-390 is too small.
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General Discussion / Re: City looking to purchsse C&E line.
« on: December 17, 2018, 07:05:59 PM »https://tinyurl.com/y8csct3v
They talk of implementing bus, tram, and light rail as options. Article says line would connect to Grand Ave. through Tribune property. Maybe they'll follow the Navy Pier line. In that case I wonder if the Carroll bridge would most likely be in the lowered position.
Joe
I think they mean the Tribune's property on both sides of Chicago Avenue west of the river and east of Halsted by the Freedom Center printing press. Tribune Publishing (formerly Tronc) is technically a tenant of Tribune Media which owns the real estate following the debacle of the LBO by Sam Zell a number of years ago then splitting the companies apart.
It is odd that UP has not sought to formally abandon the Navy Pier line including the bridge which they lower once a year and run a hi-rail truck over it.
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General Discussion / Re: Changes to Tribune Printing plant area move along
« on: October 25, 2018, 03:45:35 PM »Just an update about the plan to redevelop the Tribune printing plant area:
https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2018/10/18/you-get-a-skyscraper-and-you-get-a-skyscraper/?fbclid=IwAR22O20u6Zvb0NC0ywSS2AVDyUvx6Dd6YJJOuQIDHOs7NRs_PFSp0sh7sDo
Get pictures while you can!
I thought the plan was to sell the land north of Chicago Avenue but keeping the Freedom Center open south of Chicago Avenue. Tribune Publishing moved a number of staff from Tribune Tower into the Freedom Center facility as they vacated Tribune Tower.
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General Discussion / Re: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
« on: August 08, 2018, 03:39:52 PM »69
General Discussion / Re: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
« on: July 06, 2018, 11:21:21 PM »
"The Chicago Junction Railway operated a switching and terminal railroad in Chicago, connecting the Union Stock Yards with most other railroads in the city. It also briefly operated an outer belt, which became the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad in 1907. The New York Central Railroad acquired control of the company in 1922 and leased it to subsidiary Chicago River and Indiana Railroad. The line is now owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway."
Source = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Junction_Railway
Your post also does not respond to NS holding onto heritage names as shown by their heritage locomotive fleet.
Source = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Junction_Railway
Your post also does not respond to NS holding onto heritage names as shown by their heritage locomotive fleet.
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General Discussion / UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
« on: July 06, 2018, 10:28:05 AM »
Chicago Junction is taking over from Chicago Terminal.
I wonder how Chicago Junction got the rights to use this name as the original Chicago Junction on the South Side is now part of NS? Normally Class I carriers like NS like to keep the rights to use the heritage names and symbols.
https://www.stb.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/8a3697b0d0629093852582820051e606/$FILE/245642.pdf
I wonder how Chicago Junction got the rights to use this name as the original Chicago Junction on the South Side is now part of NS? Normally Class I carriers like NS like to keep the rights to use the heritage names and symbols.
https://www.stb.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/8a3697b0d0629093852582820051e606/$FILE/245642.pdf
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General Discussion / New Map Names C&E, Bloomingdale, and Deering Lines...Too Late
« on: June 10, 2018, 10:58:08 AM »
I noticed on www.historicaerials.com that they now have the correct names for the former Milwaukee Road lines on the North Side. Too bad that it is a moot point now. They even label the C&E line north of Clybourn. Here's a sample.
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General Discussion / Re: RDC's by Tribune Tower!
« on: June 06, 2018, 10:19:41 AM »
My understanding was that it was an experiment by the C&NW on running a passenger shuttle to Navy Pier and back.
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Modeling / Re: N Scale Chicago Tribune Yard Layout
« on: May 19, 2018, 10:19:46 AM »
Wow! That is amazing! What materials did you use for scratch building the buildings?
It depresses me whenever I take the Metra train in and see so few cars anymore at the North Avenue Yard. It seems like just yesterday it was full of boxcars for both the Tribune and Sun-Times.
It depresses me whenever I take the Metra train in and see so few cars anymore at the North Avenue Yard. It seems like just yesterday it was full of boxcars for both the Tribune and Sun-Times.
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General Discussion / Re: Blommer Switching
« on: May 01, 2018, 02:05:59 PM »
Here's a pair of boxcars on the lower level Blommer spur in 1990. They received cocoa beans in burlap bags by boxcar back then.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/38900501520/in/photolist-FnjJMB-22gveQ5-Z3zkXb-SBnweF-RnnKNV-z13b51-xDW51Y
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/38900501520/in/photolist-FnjJMB-22gveQ5-Z3zkXb-SBnweF-RnnKNV-z13b51-xDW51Y