damen ave. was formerly called robey st., on the southwest corner of the intersection formed by damen ave. and the bloomingdale line was the line\'s stub-end \"robey st. yard\" running West from damen, about 17 years ago myself and two friends did our my best spiderman impressions and scaled the 8\' retaining wall, I found myself in a quiet urban oasis if not a time-warp, the few tracks were intact though weed and sapling-choked and sloped gradually down to grade-level, obviously many years out of use, the damen bridge is wider than most (double track) on the line to accommodate extra lead track(s) for switching traffic into the yard, I don\'t recall the exact #, the yard is now occupied by modern urban housing like much of Northside\'s domain
