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General Discussion / Damen Ave Bridge on Bloomingdale Line
« on: August 21, 2007, 10:32:38 PM »
I\'m looking at the Bloomingdale line bridge over Damen Ave, and it looks pretty large. Can anyone tell me why?
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General Discussion / Crazy idea?
« on: August 21, 2007, 09:59:59 PM »
Most of life as a railfan has been directed at electric stuff that pretty much doesn\'t exist or has been replaced by newer cars (streetcars, interurbans, rapid transit, etc.), and as such, the only way to ride/photograph the cars is either to go to museums (as a last resort) or go to cities where they are still around and charter them, which allows photo stops, going on trackage that isn\'t frequently used, etc.
I\'m just wondering what people on the board think about doing something like this with the remaining trackage covered on this website. Has anything like this ever been tried? Or is it uninteresting since the train wouldn\'t be operating in normal revenue service?
Thoughts? Just curious.
I\'m just wondering what people on the board think about doing something like this with the remaining trackage covered on this website. Has anything like this ever been tried? Or is it uninteresting since the train wouldn\'t be operating in normal revenue service?
Thoughts? Just curious.
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General Discussion / Several Questions--Deering Line--Bloomingdale Line
« on: August 06, 2007, 04:05:18 AM »
I sent this email privately to Tom Mann before I found the forum part of it, so I\'ll (re)post it here:
Wow! Great website covering some interesting parts of Chicago rail history. I\'d always meant to get some shots of the sugar train and the r.o.w., but I see you guys have been at it for a while.
I also had a question: In 1992-3 I spent some time at a bar on Fullerton called The Harp and Shamrock. It was on the S side of Fullerton, just west of Clybourn, literally one door west of the oil change place on the SW corner of Clybourn and Fullerton. The building is no longer there, but I thought I remembered going out the back door of that building a couple of times and seeing track there. I\'m just wondering if you can tell me anything about it. Did it cross Fullerton? What industry was it serving? When would it have last been used? I\'m assuming it was a branch off the Deering line.
Question two: maybe I\'m getting my childhood memories mixed up with CNW Lake Street, but were there ever passenger stations on the Bloomingdale Line? I thought I remembered stairs going up from street to track level, but maybe I\'m wrong.
I remember riding the Fullerton bus in the 70s and 80s, crossing the see C.N.W.(?) tracks on the SW side of the river just south of the Fullerton bridge (Google earth is a big help here) and the tracks crossing Fullerton in the 70s and 80s, with the buses stopping at the Lakewood branch, and me, a young, mostly streetcar fan, wondering why.
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work you guys have done. It\'s great seeing things that my memory had cataloged and are now gone--like the signals by Muskies on Lincoln. Did anyone ever do a movie/film of the sugar train run? Also, was there an article done many many years ago in Trains Magazine about it? Couldn\'t remember.
Thanks,
Mike Murray
Wow! Great website covering some interesting parts of Chicago rail history. I\'d always meant to get some shots of the sugar train and the r.o.w., but I see you guys have been at it for a while.
I also had a question: In 1992-3 I spent some time at a bar on Fullerton called The Harp and Shamrock. It was on the S side of Fullerton, just west of Clybourn, literally one door west of the oil change place on the SW corner of Clybourn and Fullerton. The building is no longer there, but I thought I remembered going out the back door of that building a couple of times and seeing track there. I\'m just wondering if you can tell me anything about it. Did it cross Fullerton? What industry was it serving? When would it have last been used? I\'m assuming it was a branch off the Deering line.
Question two: maybe I\'m getting my childhood memories mixed up with CNW Lake Street, but were there ever passenger stations on the Bloomingdale Line? I thought I remembered stairs going up from street to track level, but maybe I\'m wrong.
I remember riding the Fullerton bus in the 70s and 80s, crossing the see C.N.W.(?) tracks on the SW side of the river just south of the Fullerton bridge (Google earth is a big help here) and the tracks crossing Fullerton in the 70s and 80s, with the buses stopping at the Lakewood branch, and me, a young, mostly streetcar fan, wondering why.
Anyway, thanks for all the hard work you guys have done. It\'s great seeing things that my memory had cataloged and are now gone--like the signals by Muskies on Lincoln. Did anyone ever do a movie/film of the sugar train run? Also, was there an article done many many years ago in Trains Magazine about it? Couldn\'t remember.
Thanks,
Mike Murray