Blommer upper level switching

[SlowFreight]

That PRR line was also called the Panhandle, and it ran from Pittsburgh west through Ohio and Indiana to Chicago. It actually crossed the old RI suburban line in Englewood and ran north up to where it turned east to access Union Station from the Milwaukee Road side. Quite a bit of its Chicago trackage has been gone for at least 30 years.

[haggar]

Found couple pics of Blommer upper level switching on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31053639@N06/7889955318/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31053639@N06/7889976202/in/photostream/

Lots of other Chicago pics in that photostream.

Joe

[TBurke]

Good catch.

I passed Blommer on the Metra train in and out of Chicago on Wednesday and I noticed six covered hoppers parked on the upper spur and a black tank car parked on the street level spur on the lower east side of Blommer.  Another black tank car was parked farther north on the same spur closer to Grand Avenue.

Business must be good for Blommer lately.