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Chicago Switching => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mark K on June 25, 2003, 03:14:59 PM

Title: Deering Line Names, Dates, and Places
Post by: Mark K on June 25, 2003, 03:14:59 PM

re: the Strawberry line

Why was it named that?

Where was its north terminus (Diversey and Damen?)

Was it abandoned in pieces or all at once?

When were sections scrapped?

Thanks,

Mark

Title: Deering Line Names, Dates, and Places
Post by: tom mann on October 22, 2003, 01:42:35 PM

Mark is referring to a possible error in the 3rd Quarter 1995 The Milwaukee Railroader article.  What the editors refer to as the Strawberry line probably should be called the Deering Line.  

Tom Mann

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Thomas Mann

Title: Deering Line Names, Dates, and Places
Post by: tom mann on November 01, 2004, 10:55:32 PM

re: update on strawberry line name

Tom Burke has a contact that reports that the Strawberry Line was a nickname for the C&E Line.  The Milwaukee Railroader and the MRHA is still referring to the Deering Line as the Strawberry Line, a possible mistake dating to the 3rd Quarter 95 issue.  Recently, I\'ve been told by Otto Dobnick (a photographer that contributed to this issue) that he knew an engineer that always knew the Deering Line as the Strawberry Line.  

Can anyone shed some light on this??

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Thomas Mann
http://www.mannresearch.com/chicagoswitching

Title: Deering Line Names, Dates, and Places
Post by: tom mann on November 01, 2004, 10:58:27 PM

Mark:

To answer one of your questions:

It was called the Deering Line because it\'s northern most customer was the Deering Harvester Works at Damen and Diversey.  Sometime in the 30\'s, it was cut back to Fullerton.

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Thomas Mann
http://www.mannresearch.com/chicagoswitching