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Chicago Switching => General Discussion => Topic started by: SlowFreight on March 22, 2007, 06:18:52 PM

Title: Chicago Transparent Products
Post by: SlowFreight on March 22, 2007, 06:18:52 PM

Did anybody else notice that the spur for Chicago Transparent Products seems to be gone?  I was looking on Google Earth, and I don\'t know if they\'re still in business but I definitely didn\'t see any track in the photo.

Title: Chicago Transparent Products
Post by: cpcolin on March 22, 2007, 08:41:37 PM

There is a residential developmet in the area now. I know the spur was gone as of last year along with the building. I saw it from ground level last summer. I was on site.

Title: Chicago Transparent Products
Post by: Cway on March 23, 2007, 01:03:45 AM

The name sounds familiar,but where was it located?

Cway

Title: Chicago Transparent Products
Post by: tom mann on March 23, 2007, 10:40:21 AM

Those photos from Tom Burke were taken weeks before they removed the spur.  So they been gone since early \'03.

http://chicagoswitching.com/v4/articles/article.asp?menu=0&locationid=10&locationname=North+Line&articleid=48

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

Title: Chicago Transparent Products
Post by: djohanns on March 23, 2007, 12:32:25 PM

Cway,
here is a link to google maps showing where this spur was located:
http://tinyurl.com/2u66vp

The spur ran through the middle of that parking lot, or rather the parking lot was probably built around the track.

Title: Chicago Transparent Products
Post by: SlowFreight on March 23, 2007, 08:24:52 PM

Thanks for the update.

I didn\'t notice it before, but if you look at Peerless in that image, the CP switcher is actually on the plant spur when the photo was taken.