Looks like more traffic at North Ave yard to come

[GM]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-tribune-to-print-suntimes-20110719,0,7080274.story


Sun Times to have Tribune print paper at freedom center

GM

[raisin]

Did the Sun-Times printing plant (the new one, not the one in their old building) have rail service?  If not, this could represent a net gain for local rail freight in the area.  Hooray!

[TBurke]

Yes, the Sun-Times does have rail service to their new facility on the South Side.  A quick look at Google Earth shows six boxcars parked alongside the south wall.

It\'s a win for UP with increased boxcar loads of newsprint for the Tribune Freedom Center but a loss for BNSF which services the plant via a long spur.  

Also yet another sad chapter in story of the Sun-Times and for its employees at the plant...

[chuck]

I\'ve always seen the CN switching the Times plant off Ashland, not BNSF.  Just an FYI...

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[TribuneFreightFanatic]

Does this mean we should all be seeing more freights parked in the Trib. Yard?

[SlowFreight]

Probably not whole trains but definitely more cars switched into the building...with most of the Grand Ave yard removed, the cars will probably be stored in North Ave.