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Chicago Switching => General Discussion => Topic started by: TBurke on September 29, 2011, 08:57:52 PM

Title: Scanned Milwaukee Road Track Diagram-Goose Island (Northern Half)-1955
Post by: TBurke on September 29, 2011, 08:57:52 PM
Note the changes from 1955 to 1971. 

The Excelsior Steel Furnace Corporation north of Division Street by the yard was still standing into the late 1980s as shown in this view.

http://chicagoswitching.com/v6/articles/article.asp?articleid=86

Nick Buecher & Sons on North Branch became National By-Products.  This photo dates from 1988.

http://chicagoswitching.com/v6/articles/picturedisplay.asp?photograph=../../$library/Goose_Island/tb_GooseIslandOps_1989_07.jpg