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TribuneFreightFanatic

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UP YNO68(?) now switching Blommer top level
« on: April 23, 2020, 11:34:34 PM »
Not sure when the official switch happened (perhaps after ADM shut down?), but the same UP crew that switches the Tribune and lower level of Blommer now switches the upper level as well. I caught the entire upper-level job a few weeks ago on video. I've attached a photo of the move until I can get the footage up on YouTube.
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Re: UP YNO68(?) now switching Blommer top level
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2020, 12:24:10 PM »
Interesting.  Great pic!
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Re: UP YNO68(?) now switching Blommer top level
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2020, 10:09:35 AM »
ADM's now closed West Side plant was switched by Norfolk Southern as a legacy of the former PRR Panhandle line, not UP.

Years ago from a high floor of an office building I watched a UP freight train entering Ogilvie train station from the North Avenue Yard and using ladder tracks to make its way across to get to the West Line and work Blommer.  I am guessing that is how it is being switched now. 

Blommer for years was an unusual operation from a switching perspective in that two different C&NW and later UP subdivisions switched it from two different levels.
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