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Looking east. Goose Island RR draw in far background

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Looking east. Goose Island draw and new storage facility on northern tip of Goose Island in background.

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Looking east. Mag Mile in extreme background.

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Looking SE. Site was a scrapyard into the 1990s. I think it is currently an EPA superfund site--not sure. Morton salt in far distance, center. Note new paving on N. Magnolia.

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C&NW's North Line bascule drawbridge over the North Branch of the Chicago River, as seen from the Ashland Ave. bridge.

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Interchange track between CP Rail (Milwaukee Road) and the C&NW (later UP) at Clybourn Tower. This view looks south from the location of the one-time Chicago Brewing Company, a pioneer in microbrewing.

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C&NW's connecting track curves down from the North Line viaduct to reach the Deering Industrial District trackage on the west side of the North Line. Note the cobblestone pavers along the rails on West Wrightwood Ave. Wrightwood also crosses the former Milwaukee Road C&E line, now CP Rail, at Lakewood Ave. which still serves Peerless Confectionary. As of 2003 these C&NW tracks in Wrightwood are gone. This is old track!

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Looking west this time at the same C&NW connector track where it passes by the old Cotter & Co. complex in the Deering Industrial District. Tom Burke recalls seeing a C&NW switcher moving across Clybourn at this location in 1981. Too bad he didn't have a camera with him at the time! To the right in the picture you can see the transformation taking place from industrial to retail in this area.

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Looking south at strip shopping center across Clybourn where rail-served industries once existed. Note Metra train on C&NW's north line in the background.

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Same view. Once the Milwaukee Road and C&NW shared switching duties in this area.

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A closer view, looking north, at the C&NW connecting track where it left the C&NW North Line viaduct and entered the Deering Industrial District. The former Stewart-Warner Co. plant was to the left or west of this picture. The C&NW's Deering Yard was located out of view and further north from this angle, across Diversey Blvd.

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Another look west at the C&NW's connection into the Deering area, this time from the North Line viaduct.

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Close-up picture of where the C&NW connection crossed Clybourn.