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General Discussion / Boxcars outside of Wrigley

« on: January 08, 2017, 08:01:00 PM »

Saw this posted to the MRHA's Facebook page.  The caption is:

Cub fans line up outside Wrigley Field next to boxcars on the Milwaukee Road team track. 1967.

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General Discussion / Re: Maps

« on: July 18, 2016, 05:17:59 PM »

Thanks for finding those Michael.  Those links are pretty old and content has a few times changed locations.  Since the time that those posts were made, the maps have moved to here:  http://chicagoswitching.com/chicago/overview-maps-and-infomation/

Also, Tom Burke has scanned some of the old Goose Island engineering diagrams and posted them to this forum:

http://www.chicagoswitching.com/forum/index.php?topic=356.0

http://www.chicagoswitching.com/forum/index.php?topic=354.0

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General Discussion / A few new updates from Tom B

« on: June 29, 2016, 05:20:50 PM »

Thanks to Tom Burke for sending these along.

http://chicagoswitching.com/chicago/former-milwaukee-road-cp-rail-chicago-terminal/goose-island-area/goose-island-at-twilight-1998/

I'll wait for him to author some captions.  Looks like Azko was busy!

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General Discussion / Rondout Station, 1953

« on: June 10, 2015, 11:22:32 PM »

http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/cookmemo11/id/6359

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General Discussion / August 1914 Engineering article on Bloomingdale Line

« on: June 10, 2015, 09:41:54 PM »

Found this earlier today:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ix5HAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA323&ots=I3YQCubgfj&dq=milwaukee%20road%20track%20diagram%20%22chicago%20and%20Milwaukee%20Division%22&pg=PA323#v=onepage&q=milwaukee%20road%20track%20diagram%20%22chicago%20and%20Milwaukee%20Division%22&f=false

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

« on: September 15, 2014, 08:44:26 PM »

Very cool.  It just dawned on me that I saw those tracks 11 years ago.  Amazing what can remain...

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General Discussion / Cool CNW Historical Map (for sale)

« on: May 23, 2014, 07:51:32 AM »

http://www.worldmapsonline.com/historicalmaps/1W-IL-CH-1902.htm

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New Site Updates / Re: Site Down?

« on: February 11, 2013, 10:20:11 PM »

Yep, I'm converting everything to use another server.  I thought I had until the end of the month, but Network Solutions pulled the plug early!

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General Discussion / Track removal on Google Maps

« on: August 14, 2012, 03:22:14 PM »

Thought I would take a virtual tour and see what has changed.  I was surprised to see the Kingsbury track removal project.

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General Discussion / Re: '99 pic of Sun Times branch

« on: June 19, 2012, 09:39:19 PM »

Awesome.   

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General Discussion / CTR first day of operations video

« on: February 06, 2012, 07:46:20 AM »

http://vimeo.com/36257692

Tom Burke was in the cab on this historic day!

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General Discussion / Re: we need more youtube videos

« on: September 19, 2011, 10:20:00 PM »

I have about a 1/2 of video from Tom Burke that I'm currently in the process of editing.  Tom was with the Chicago Terminal on "opening day" and shot some great, rare video from the cab.

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New Site Updates / New forum, again

« on: September 19, 2011, 09:33:47 PM »

I'll explain later...

Ok - sometime on Saturday/Sunday, my host informed me that the server that this forum's database is on went down.  Today, I found out that the last usable backup is from 8/9.  Unfortunately, this means that all posts from 8/9 until 9/17 are lost.  I'm really sorry about this, I've never had this problem with a host before. 

In the meantime, I'm doing daily backups myself

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General Discussion / New Forum coming shortly

« on: August 09, 2011, 06:25:34 PM »

I am in the process of upgrading this forum to more modern software.  There will be a few days of down time while this happens.  This is part of a large scale refresh that will include expansion of our coverage to Milwaukee.

When I get close to completing the process, I\'ll lock this forum and the new forum will be accessible by clicking the forum link on the top of the chicagoswitching.com site.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

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General Discussion / Tracks exposed at 2615 N. Elston

« on: August 09, 2011, 06:19:44 PM »

Wow, that is pretty cool.  I remember Tom Burke pointing them out to me a few years ago.

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com