Got Tank Cars? Goose Island Now Does-Two Dozen or So Delivered This Week

[TBurke]

Chicago Terminal this week shoved a long string of tank cars down Kingsbury and onto Goose Island on August 20.  To the best of my knowledge it is the first time that tank cars have been on Goose Island since National By-Products at Blackhawk and North Branch closed circa 1990.  It is also the most amount of freight cars at one time on Goose Island since the 1970s.  By the early 1980s the Division Street Yard was a ghost of itself and for several years International Salt did not get deliveries by rail but instead by ship.  It restored rail service when the river silted in too much for ships to go that far.

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I took a drive around there this morning and took a number of pictures.  Tank cars are stored on the lead to Goose Island at North Avenue and at four different places on Goose Island itself including on track that has not seen a train since Akzo Salt closed by 1999. 

Scroll down to the bottom of this album to see tank cars all over Goose Island! 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157657870065262

Tom

[gordg3]

Great news. Thanks for the update and photos.