All is settled

[D. Kaniuk]

Chicago Terminal and City of Chicago are good friends again.

Here re the links:

http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/61811d575d16f37a852576f60073b086?OpenDocument
http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/533aabf121614d3b852576f60043a99e?OpenDocument

[mark_k]

So... the branches in contention will be abandoned?

[robertmroman]

Unless you or someone else wants to protest

[mark_k]

quote:Originally posted by robertmroman

Unless you or someone else wants to protest

Not really. It was only a matter of time. I\'m glad I was around to see the last gasps of traffic on these lines.

[chuck]

Does anybody know someone at CT?  It would be cool to set up a \"Final Run\" photo special!!

-=Chuck=-
Mail: chuckjanda(at)hotmail.com
Home: http://www.chucksphotospot.com

[raisin]

Perhaps naively, I thought they really had a chance to get a customer on the Kingsbury line.  Too bad.  Twenty years from now, no one will believe there were ever trains on these streets.

[mark_k]

quote:Originally posted by raisin

Perhaps naively, I thought they really had a chance to get a customer on the Kingsbury line.  Too bad.  Twenty years from now, no one will believe there were ever trains on these streets.

Perhaps only 5 or 10 years,  the way landscapes change in Chicago these days.

[TBurke]

While the tracks will probably be removed from Kingsbury and the street repaved soon south of the cut-off to Goose Island, my guess is that for the rail archeologists there will still be signs of what was once there.  Isolated segments of long abandoned spurs, the way buildings curve where spurs once ran alongside them, etc.