Schlitz Brewing had a rail-served location on Goose Island back in 1955. With multiple breweries served from the Milwaukee Road's C&E line (including offshoots the Deering Line and Goose Island) directly or via team tracks it could rival Milwaukee's better known Beer Line for that distinction.
While Milwaukee's Beer Line generated more volume from Schlitz, Pabst, and Blatz, the C&E line and its offshoots in Chicago had more variety including Birk Brothers at Webster Avenue, Best Brewing Company on Lakewood just south of Belmont, Atlantic Brewing served by team tracks off the Deering Line, the Peter Hand Brewery at Kingsbury and North Avenue, and the Schlitz facility believed to be a warehouse on Goose Island.
Note also the changing names and businesses from 1955 to 1971.
