I\'d be surprised if UP ran all the way up to Waukegan, but stranger has happened. Do any of the folks at Chicago Terminal know? I doubt they much care, but maybe they\'ve heard.
It\'s been since before I can remember that any local service existed between Gladstone Park and Des Plaines. I remember chasing one of the Elk Grove jobs going up the Harvard Sub to switch such places as Sysco Foods (old Wieboldt\'s warehouse), Hines Lumber(in Mt. Prospect), Knight Engineering and Arlington Mills (both molding companies off Arthur Ave. in Arlington Heights), the Daily Herald in A.H., Fuji, and Heller Lumber. Once in a great while, someone would have a reefer spotted opposite the Daily Herald on the MoW spur, but I think I saw that maybe four or five times. So, those were never known to be switched from North Ave.
In my days, nothing existed past a molding company (name unknown) near Fuji until you got to Cary. Back in the 50\'s, the local would range much farther, but in the 80\'s and 90\'s, Cary and all points north were served by one of the WAJA turns. Mon/Wed saw Crystal Lake, and Tues/Thurs was Beloit. Tues/Thurs was when WACL handled the Ringwood duties, the sand pits and other traffic south of Crystal Lake having dried up in the 80\'s. So, as close as Ringwood is to Proviso, it takes a consistent two extra days to get cars in and out. And folks wonder why no one wants to ship via UP...