1995 Metra Milw west on YouTube

[haggar]

Found this video on an inbound Metra ride on the Milw west line ftom 1995. Nice document to see how area has changed.

https://youtu.be/GVnjFe4VITs

I had read that a stub of the CNW low line was kept and used for a recycling industry.  This video shows a boxcar spotted just west of Racine.  The only other evidence I've ever seen was Tom Burke's picture from '97.

https://flic.kr/p/z15V3u

Joe

[TBurke]

Found this video on an inbound Metra ride on the Milw west line ftom 1995. Nice document to see how area has changed.

https://youtu.be/GVnjFe4VITs

I had read that a stub of the CNW low line was kept and used for a recycling industry.  This video shows a boxcar spotted just west of Racine.  The only other evidence I've ever seen was Tom Burke's picture from '97.

https://flic.kr/p/z15V3u

Joe

Very interesting.

I noted the following-

The photographer didn't lift the pause button soon enough to start recording after leaving the Mars station to capture the Dunning Line which came off on the north.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/20747349530/in/album-72157657848232111/

Starting at 2:50 the massive Zenith TV factory, abandoned.

Former Rubenstein Lumber spur which was still in service in 1995 at 4:39

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/20909150266/in/album-72157657848232111/

C&NW Cragin Line at 6:14. I was not aware it was still double tracked at that point since it was eliminated as a through route in 1988. Now of course this diamond is gone and the Cragin Line is down to a single track to service Alpha Baking.

Pacific Junction at 8:56. Soo Line freight trains in 1995 took this route then down the Bloomington Line from the Bensenville Yard to reach the former MILW customers on Chicago's North Side. Former Schwinn bike factory in the background, since torn down and replaced by the YMCA. Former Playskol factory on the opposite side of the Bloomingdale Line.

Glad I got some ground level photos a box car at 13:25.