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Modeling / Re: Miami / Lance Mindheim modeling
« Last post by TBurke on December 22, 2023, 11:16:33 AM »
Thanks, Jeff.

I purchased his book too Stucco and Pastels which is a brief, but interesting, read with plenty of pictures of the Downtown Spur before its recent rationalization that eliminated many of the spurs that used to flare off of it.

I wish I had more time to explore the industrial lines of Miami.
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General Discussion / Re: Bloomer switching in movie "Blink" 1994
« Last post by haggar on December 10, 2023, 02:43:23 PM »
Sorry about typo.  We all know it's Blommer not Bloomer.

Joe
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Modeling / Miami / Lance Mindheim modeling
« Last post by Jeff Wingstrom on December 09, 2023, 10:44:49 PM »
While looking at some great Miami shots on Flickr from Tom Burke - I instantly thought of Lance's modeling work.. Tom I was glad to see you mentioned & linked to it in your comments. Just wanted to make sure anyone surfing here for modeling stuff has a look at it, it is quite something. His and Pelle Soeborg's work is some of the best I've seen.
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General Discussion / Re: Bloomer switching in movie "Blink" 1994
« Last post by TBurke on December 09, 2023, 08:00:10 PM »
Great catch. I never even heard of that movie.

It's almost as if they timed that shot on purpose to have the two trains go by.

Must have been a hot delivery if C&NW made a special run to drop off a single car to Bloomer.
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General Discussion / Bloomer switching in movie "Blink" 1994
« Last post by haggar on November 27, 2023, 08:37:07 PM »
While reseaching Chicago scenes in movies I came upon this from 1994's "Blink".

https://youtu.be/P0hhMMGRVOo?si=DY3bv15ahKZhcN7-

I saw this movie a long time ago but don't remember this scene.
 Filmed at Aberdeen and Hubbard.

Joe


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General Discussion / Re: Kingsbury Street
« Last post by TBurke on August 11, 2023, 09:28:07 AM »
In 1987 there would have been several industries that still regularly received boxcars on this line, the Chicago & Evanston or C&E, and off the attached Goose Island trackage. This train is heading south on Kingsbury just past Cortland.

1. Wallace Business Forms at Grand Avenue and Kingsbury.
2. Midwest Zinc on Kingsbury just south of North Avenue.
3. Plibrico on Kingsbury just north of North Avenue.
4. Midwest Industrial Metals on Goose Island on North Branch at Bliss.
5. Big Bay Lumber on Goose Island, North Branch at Division.

The last train in revenue service on these former Milwaukee Road lines was in 2015 to Big Bay Lumber by Chicago Terminal. Chicago Terminal and its parent Iowa Pacific Holdings went out of business in 2019. That was the year of the final movement on these rails as stored reefers were retrieved and brought back across the Chicago River to the Union Pacific North Avenue Yard.

These former Milwaukee Road lines branched off the Chicago & Evanston Line which at one time connected the tracks entering Union Station on the south with a passenger depot in Wilmette on the north end. The MILW cut back the C&E Line over time, starting with the predecessor of the CTA taking over operation of freight and passenger service from Irving Park Road north. By 1984 the C&E Line was cut back to Diversey on the north and Grand Avenue on the south. Its connection to the outside world was via the Bloomingdale Line, now a trail.

In 1986 Canadian Pacific via its Soo Line subsidiary took over operations of the Milwaukee Road including the industrial tracks on the North Side of Chicago. In 2001 the Bloomingdale Line was put out of service as a through line for transfer runs so CP leased space at Union Pacific's North Avenue yard and connected via the interchange track to its home rails. In 2007 shortline Chicago Terminal took over operations of what was left from CP.

I covered the history of these lines in detail in a Milwaukee Road Historical Association book called The Milwaukee Road in Chicago which was recently reprinted by the MRHA and is available on their website.

I also have photos and maps in these albums among others.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72177720296370340

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157715114878692

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157657870065262

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157657240086290

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157657848232111

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157704913274794

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157704913274794

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157704913274794
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General Discussion / Kingsbury Street
« Last post by SteveN on August 08, 2023, 11:34:03 PM »
So I was looking through Flickr this evening and came across this photo.  Even though I have a great interest in Chicago railroading, I'll admit that I am fairly new at understanding the Milwaukee/Soo operations in the city.  Any idea where they may have been heading to?  Neat to see a small string of CNW RBL boxcars.

Thanks

https://flic.kr/p/KdGL5F
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General Discussion / Cool Picture of Streetcar Crossing MILW Tracks Outside Wrigley Field
« Last post by TBurke on July 14, 2023, 07:29:43 PM »
Not sure if this picture has been posted here before or not...
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General Discussion / Re: photo missions
« Last post by themats on July 14, 2023, 04:22:29 PM »
Jeff,

Here's a mission for ya:

Get shots of the former C&NW tracks at the water purification plant just north of Navy Pier.   ;D ;D ;D

Get in, and get out quickly before they start shooting at you!

I KEED I KEED.

Mike
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General Discussion / Re: 1921 tracks along river
« Last post by TBurke on July 05, 2023, 07:44:44 AM »
Nice catch. I am guessing that the Sun-Times building then later Trump Tower occupied that spot.

Reminder looking at the smoke in the air in the photo that in the old days bad air days were common in the industrial past when homes and industries burned coal.
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