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General Discussion / '89 Peerless pics
« on: October 08, 2011, 06:37:23 PM »
More pics from Mark LLanuza on flickr of a 1989 Peerless run.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5368545810/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5352556255/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5350064345/in/photostream

Joe

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General Discussion / '87 Kingsbury line pics
« on: October 08, 2011, 06:34:53 PM »
Some great pics on flickr from Mark LLanuza.  Some of you may have seen these, but figured I'd post the links to make it easy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5367932367/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5353168768/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5358290548/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5350674230/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5355117472/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5355115722/in/photostream

Not sure of year here, but looks to be about the same as above.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/5392507245/in/photostream

I've only gone though about half of his pics.  Lots of great stuff.

Joe

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General Discussion / 1967 North Water Street pics
« on: August 02, 2011, 11:14:21 PM »
Found more great pics on David Wilson\'s Flickr photostream.  Don\'t think anyone posted these yet.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwilson1949/3393231645/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwilson1949/3394042720/in/photostream/

David has tons of cool Chicago pics. Interesting to see how much the city has changed.  Of course, lots of railroad pics too.

Joe

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General Discussion / Milw pics on flickr
« on: March 18, 2011, 05:50:44 PM »
Found some pics of Milw trains entering Union Station across Canal St.  Lots of other train and el pics.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8226029@N06/2103578384/in/set-72157623818439939/

Joe

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General Discussion / \'99 Goose Island switching on youtube
« on: March 13, 2011, 11:40:49 PM »
just found these clips on youtube

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WrsIsTaCpM&feature=related

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2JJQpScMKg&NR=1

lots of other railroad clips from Iowa and some Chicago area stuff

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General Discussion / \"Chicago From the Air Then and Now\" book
« on: January 30, 2011, 05:00:45 PM »
If you guys are at a Borders or Barnes and Noble, check out this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Air-Then-Thunder-Press/dp/1607100096

Nice view of Wolf Point with lots of freight cars on C&E and CNW lines and the C&E bridge still in use.  Also, nice shot of lakefront IC yard where Prudential plaza and AON building currently stand.

Joe

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General Discussion / Early 70s Chicago Milw pics
« on: January 24, 2011, 01:27:15 AM »
Guys,
Someone posted this link to the wisail Yahoo group.  Some nice pics of Milw in Chicago in early 70s.

Joe

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General Discussion / Railroad photos of Chicago 1979
« on: January 19, 2011, 06:42:57 PM »
Guys,
Someone posted this link to the Yahoo group MFCL (modern freight car list).

http://www.pjv101.net/film_bw/fldrbw08.htm

This is an Austrailian historian and he has tons of railroad pics from a 1979 trip to the U.S.  Lots of nice Chicago shots. Some cool shots from Sears Tower of Grand Ave. and State St. yards.  The Tribune printing plant looks to be under construction.  Lots of tankers in Grand Ave. yard for Blommer and Newsprint cars in State St. yard for Sun Times.  
Unfortunately no Kingsbury or Goose Island. Supposedly he still has many more to scan.  Be prepared to spend several hours checking these out.  The Chicago pics start film 1427

Joe

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General Discussion / Blommer upper level switching
« on: September 25, 2010, 10:46:17 PM »
Do the cars for Blommer\'s upper level normally come from North Avenue Yard?  For 3 years I have lived along the the UP West line just east of Ogden and have never seen a freight car.  The other day a loco was pulling two hoppers west from Blommer.  I did see some mow equipment on the UP Northwest line so maybe that had something to do with it.

Joe

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General Discussion / Milwaukee Road in Chicago pics
« on: October 19, 2009, 11:04:38 PM »
From the same man with the recent Navy Pier pics I posted recently, here is one of the Dunning line:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwdavidson/3913052227/in/set-72157621126657535/

Found different person who posted these pics of trains crossing Canal St.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8226029@N06/2100965596/in/pool-41233214@N00/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8226029@N06/2103578384/in/pool-41233214@N00/

Joe

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General Discussion / Navy Pier line on Flickr
« on: October 14, 2009, 06:06:17 PM »
Guys,
Found a couple good pics of Navy Pier line on Flickr.  Don\'t think anyone had posted these to the group yet.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwdavidson/3838045215/in/pool-cnw_pool

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwdavidson/3838840064/in/pool-cnw_pool

Lots of other good pics if you search throught that CNW pool.

Joe

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General Discussion / track removal Fulton Market area
« on: May 06, 2009, 07:33:07 PM »
Not exactly northside, but I live in the west Loop and noticed that out of service tracks are being removed on the Milw line at Racine and May streets.  Not sure if they\'re going to remove the lines at Morgan going into the cold storage warehouse, I\'ll update if I see anything. Just bought Tom Burke\'s excellent book \"The Milwaukee Road in Chicago\".  There are some great old aerial photos that illustrate just how busy this area once was with freight traffic.

Joe

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