I took the 11:30 Metra home wednesday night, and as we passed the North Avenue yard, I saw a short 13-car train loaded up on the eastern most track. It's the track that drops down to street level and runs next to Sipi Metals before rising back up to go over Elston, the river, etc. The weird part was that the train was hooked up to 3 UP engines and looked ready to move that night. What I found weird about that is that the train then needs to rise up as it starts it's journey, and then cut across all the Metra tracks to get to the UP-NW line. I'm guessing it was so that it's out of the way of Metra, but aren't there other tracks to the east side that could accommodate the train without getting on the line that the Terminal Railway uses?
Just wondering.
