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A look at the Webster Ave. bridge. To the left, or east, is a tire recycling and storage site. storage site. Gutmann Tanners is immediately across Webster from it. The Milwaukee Road's Deering Line passed through the tire lot and alongside the river. Today the tires are gone and the area is paved in gravel and used for truck storage. Deering Line tracks are still visible west of this gravel parking lot and behind the Salvation Army store on Clybourn, including where they ran under Ashland Ave Drawbridge.
Webster bridge looking southeast. Most of the facilities on the east bank of the Chicago River were served by the Deering Line.