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General Discussion / Erie Railroads\'s carfloat op on Kingsbury/Erie

« on: February 01, 2010, 10:11:39 PM »

I stumbled upon this scanned article along with pictures showing the Erie Railroad\'s carfloat operation at Kingsbury and Erie st, and the one at Webster st.

File can be found here:
www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/articles/ra-v63-n18b.pdf

For some reason it doesn\'t display correctly using Preview in MacOS, but works fine using Adobe Acrobat.

Has anyone seen a track diagram of the site?  I looked up Sanborn maps of the area to see if they showed this facilty, but the ones I found were either too early (~ 1905) or too late (1940s - 1950s).

Does anyone know the details of any sort of interchange with the Milw at Kingsbury/Erie?

Dan J.
Evanston, IL

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General Discussion / Interesting article about Ogden av on Goose Island

« on: November 26, 2007, 01:07:43 PM »

Hi guys,
I stumbled upon an interesting article about the extension and later removal of Ogden ave on Goose Island.  While not directly railroad related some might find it interesting.  There are also a bunch of interesting old photos and maps on that site.

http://www.forgottenchicago.com/ogden.php

later,

Dan J

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General Discussion / Google maps street view of Chicago

« on: October 09, 2007, 01:47:06 PM »

Hi guys,
I just wanted to mention that Google maps now has street view of Chicago, and includes coverage of Goose Island, North Ave yard area, and some other railroad spots.  The quality of the images is pretty decent when zoomed in.  Should be useful for modelers who aren\'t in the area.

Dan J

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General Discussion / question about MILW ex-C&E trackage

« on: October 25, 2004, 11:53:43 AM »

Hi,
I was looking at the overview maps of the Milwaukee road tracks in Chicago found on the web site, and started wondering a bit about the ex-C&E trackage.  Did those tracks join up with the now CTA red-line tracks just north of CTA\'s Sheridan station?  Is the red-line perhaps running on ex-C&E tracks from that point on up to Evanston?  Did they run parallel?  Any idea where I could find more C&E information?

Thanks for running the Chicago Switching site, it\'s a great resource.

Dan Johannsson