City looking to purchsse C&E line.

[haggar]

https://tinyurl.com/y8csct3v

They talk of implementing bus, tram, and light rail as options. Article says line would connect to Grand Ave. through Tribune property. Maybe they'll follow the Navy Pier line. In that case I wonder if the Carroll bridge would most likely be in the lowered position.
Joe

[chrism]

A rail line would be cool but I would definitely miss the freight trains. Too bad I never got pics of the freight trains on Goose Island a couple summers ago.

[TBurke]

https://tinyurl.com/y8csct3v

They talk of implementing bus, tram, and light rail as options. Article says line would connect to Grand Ave. through Tribune property. Maybe they'll follow the Navy Pier line. In that case I wonder if the Carroll bridge would most likely be in the lowered position.
Joe

I think they mean the Tribune's property on both sides of Chicago Avenue west of the river and east of Halsted by the Freedom Center printing press.  Tribune Publishing (formerly Tronc) is technically a tenant of Tribune Media which owns the real estate following the debacle of the LBO by Sam Zell a number of years ago then splitting the companies apart.

It is odd that UP has not sought to formally abandon the Navy Pier line including the bridge which they lower once a year and run a hi-rail truck over it.

[haggar]

Yeah Tom, I did mean the Freedom Center. I wasn't clear enough. The mention the Navy Pier makes it sound like I meant Trib Tower.
Joe

[chuck]

It is odd that UP has not sought to formally abandon the Navy Pier line including the bridge which they lower once a year and run a hi-rail truck over it.

Do you think this is done so they can claim the ROW and sell it for money, as opposed to the city coming in and taking it?
Kind of like when the Chicago Terminal ran gondolas to the firewood dealer so they could claim the line was still active.