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General Discussion / Cherry Avenue Bridge

« on: October 14, 2009, 06:27:19 PM »

Found pics of the refurbished bridge on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=all&q=%22goose+island%22&m=tags#page=4


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 08, 2009, 10:05:40 PM »

According to a posting in our mail room, the Morgan street rails are going to get the axe as well.  And yes Tom, thankfully ADM is still there.  I live right by it and enjoy watching the switch job; can\'t say that the motorist feel the same way though.

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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General Discussion / Other Chicago area street running...

« on: April 26, 2007, 09:24:33 PM »

Cway, that place on canal is Allied Metal Co.

http://www.alliedmetalcompany.com/facilities.htm

I live a little north of there and have not seen boxcars there since last summer or fall.  Following that same spur to the southwest toward the mainline, a plastic factory used to receive hoppers. I think it was called Premium Plastics.  This was maybe seven years ago when I last saw a car there.  Not too long ago that spur ran right next to the plastics building where semi trailers would dock.  They rerouted the line to swing around the trailers.

Joe

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General Discussion / 4/19/07 The \"Kingsbury Switcher\" is back!

« on: April 23, 2007, 06:38:32 PM »

Apparently they had to run all the way back to Goose just for a runaround so they could shove that TBOX boxcar to the south end of Kingsbury. Today I saw that car there and it looked like they were unloading firewood onto a dump truck.  I only saw this from afar (the roof of the Storage Mart at 1015 N. Halsted) so I\'m assuming thats what the shipment was.  Hope to see more new customers on this line.

Joe

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General Discussion / Chi Switching Group Outing for April 2007

« on: April 16, 2007, 11:54:03 PM »

First real post here, other than my introduction.
I was surprised to see a TBOX boxcar on Kingsbury today.  I checked this forum when I got home and saw that D. Kaniuk had noted this.  Anyone know why it was spotted there?

Joe

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General Discussion / Introduce Yourself!

« on: April 16, 2007, 11:44:54 PM »

Hi guys.  My name is Joe.  Been following this great site for a while.  Thanks to all responsible for running it and contributing to it.  The information is invaluable.

Joe