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Modeling / Re: random modeling shots

« on: May 11, 2017, 09:31:37 PM »

Experiments with real dirt as a base ground cover. I scooped this up from Lincoln Park, baked it at 400F for 20mins, and sifted it a few times. It's... messy but I think I like the look.

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General Discussion / Re: Brief article about the line to Navy Pier

« on: February 25, 2016, 01:16:20 PM »

Saw this go by on the Forgotten Chicago feed. Can't say I've seen this scene from this angle before.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/08/21/chicago-1976-part-7/

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General Discussion / Re: New Article-MILW Local Freight in Glenview + "MILW in Chicago" Being Reprinted

« on: July 15, 2015, 09:55:33 PM »

Order placed, thanks for the heads up! When it arrives I think I'll visit my mom in Glenview and then head over to Grandpa's Place on Prarie Ave. next to the tracks to page through the issue...

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General Discussion / Re: Tracks by Wrigley Field

« on: April 18, 2015, 03:12:45 PM »

Progress (like it or not)... looking down at the C&E grade crossing at Waveland Ave. and ROW to the southwest, April 2015. I have to wonder what interesting stuff they found under the old parking lot asphalt. I'm feeling an itch to build a diorama of this scene as it looked in the 40s, probably from the perspective of the McDonald's sign.

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General Discussion / Re: Looking for Photos of Glenview, IL, LOCAL Milwaukee Road Freight Operations

« on: April 18, 2015, 02:53:52 PM »

I would love to see this operation as well. I grew up in Glenview; hanging around that area in the late 70s/early 80s, I was (unsurprisingly) very fascinated by the remnants of the freight spur embedded in the pavement in front of Rugen's meat market. Wish I had taken some pics (how many times have all of us said that...)

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General Discussion / 1898 biz district map lithograph with amazing detail

« on: October 25, 2014, 11:28:51 AM »

Not sure this has been posted before .. press the Zoom button to access an amazing level of detail. No idea how accurate it is, but there's a ton of railroad stuff to look at: http://www.greatchicagofire.org/item/ichi-14892

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General Discussion / Re: Is Finkl officially done?

« on: September 22, 2014, 07:10:43 PM »

The full article is behind a paywall, but you only need to read the first few sentences..

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140922/CRED03/140929975/finkl-steel-factory-to-be-demolished

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General Discussion / Re: C&E / MILW track at 1230 W. School

« on: September 02, 2014, 09:35:39 PM »

Came across this plan for the park via the Southport Corridor feed on Facebook. Nice to see such clear acknowledgement of the railroad as mentioned by Brianbobcat.

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General Discussion / Re: some amazing additions to my Flickr

« on: July 27, 2014, 01:26:38 PM »

Wowww those are fantastic, thanks! Having too much fun trying to match some of them up with recent Google street views..

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General Discussion / C&E / MILW track at 1230 W. School

« on: July 27, 2014, 12:43:46 PM »

This plot will become a city park. Looks like the last visible track fragment north of Diversey (that I'm aware of) may be in jeopardy so.. of course I took a couple pics.

A couple years ago when this was an active local parking lot, I wandered in for a closer look and picked up these artifacts. Was amazed, at some level, that they were just lying around after all these years - there hasn't been a train through this spot since 1973 I believe, right?

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General Discussion / Re: Photo at Seminary & Grace

« on: June 11, 2014, 10:20:12 PM »

Here's a shot from September 2013, nearly the same spot.. I love this angle.

IMG_3514 by Jeff Wingstrom, on Flickr

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General Discussion / Re: Roundhouses, past and present?

« on: February 20, 2014, 11:48:38 PM »

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General Discussion / Re: Roundhouses, past and present?

« on: February 20, 2014, 11:04:36 PM »

Love this topic - here's one of my favorite roundhouse images. While spending 6 (haha) years at the University of Wisconsin Madison, I never had any idea that this site had a massive MILW roundhouse on it:

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=4901

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Modeling / Re: random modeling shots

« on: February 09, 2014, 02:56:19 PM »

Spent my birthday money (plus some.. $:-\$ ) I love the SoundTraxx Tsunami decoders.

http://vimeo.com/86245708

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General Discussion / Kingsbury / C&E South parting shots

« on: September 17, 2013, 09:44:51 PM »

Knowing what was going on, I didn't bike down Kingsbury between North Ave. and Division all last year, as I normally would. Couldn't stomach the carnage

Well, I checked it out the other day and while there are a few artifacts if you look closely, in general the whole stretch has been scrubbed clean - more so than I was expecting. This is pretty much all that's left:

IMG_3405 by Jeff Wingstrom, on Flickr

So I figured it's time to post several shots I took on this stretch during the summer of 2011 for posterity. In retrospect, it's pretty wild how much was left.