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CP Rail crew sets cars in the Finkl Steel spur while the locomotive gets ready to uncouple and head north, running light, to pick up an empty car from Peerless Confectionary.
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CP Rail crew sets cars in the Finkl Steel spur while the locomotive gets ready to uncouple and head north, running light, to pick up an empty car from Peerless Confectionary.
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The CP Rail MP15, in unusual coloring, creeps across the Treasure Island grocery store parking lot near Clybourn Avenue on its way north to Diversey Parkway. A delivery truck blocking the track had to move to allow the MP15 to pass.
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The CP Rail MP15, in unusual coloring, creeps across the Treasure Island grocery store parking lot near Clybourn Avenue on its way north to Diversey Parkway. A delivery truck blocking the track had to move to allow the MP15 to pass.
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Crew unlocks the gate at the runaround track located at Lakewood and Wrightwood.
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Crew unlocks the gate at the runaround track located at Lakewood and Wrightwood.
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View looking west on Schubert across Lakewood. This scene of railroad action on residential streets was once much more common on Lakewood-now trains come by when there's switching to be done for Peerless Confectionary, the last customer on the north end of the line.
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View looking west on Schubert across Lakewood. This scene of
railroad action on residential streets was once much more common on
Lakewood-now trains come by when there's switching to be done for
Peerless Confectionary, the last customer on the north end of the
line.
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MP15 on its way to retrieve the empty hopper on the Peerless spur track.
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MP15 on its way to retrieve the empty hopper on the Peerless spur track.
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Crew member lifts off the protective plate that covers the switch mechanism in the street. He then throws the lever over that will send the MP15 back down the spur.
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Crew member lifts off the protective plate that covers the switch mechanism in the street. He then throws the lever over that will send the MP15 back down the spur.
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MP15 backs down the spur, and it will have to carefully squeeze past the late model Audi parked too close to the track as it gets closer.
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MP15 backs down the spur, and it will have to carefully squeeze past the late model Audi parked too close to the track as it gets closer.
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Crew couples onto the empty tank car which once held corn syrup.
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Crew couples onto the empty tank car which once held corn syrup.
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View looking south onto the longest intact stretch of active street trackage on Chicago's north side. The CP Rail train pulls forward with the tank car in tow, then it will switch back onto the main track in the middle of Lakewood.
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View looking south onto the longest intact stretch of active street
trackage on Chicago's north side. The CP Rail train pulls forward
with the tank car in tow, then it will switch back onto the main
track in the middle of Lakewood.
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Train backs down Lakewood to the runaround track at Wrightwood where it will change places with the tank car for the journey back to Kingsbury.
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Train backs down Lakewood to the runaround track at Wrightwood where it will change places with the tank car for the journey back to Kingsbury.