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| Nathan Mackey posted Heading for the Brookdale Branch at Buffington. Paul Arden Looks like its taken from the Ft. Wayne signal...also the train is headed to the Lake SD, probably with interchange cars to the CSL... |
I knew that telephoto lens compress distances. This picture taught me that a side effect of compression is that it makes curves look sharper. This would be looking eastish from the west side of these power lines because we can see the lines against the sky. The CN/EJ&E overpass is in the background. The NS/NYC/Lake Shore & Michigan Southern tracks are on the left. Note the B&O style color positional signal the engine has just passed.
Since the Brookdale Spur has been abandoned and the B&O Bridge that crossed the Calumet River to access that spur was wrecked in 1988, this track is now just an industrial spur. It will soon join the NS tracks as shown by Nathan's photo below that is looking West. CSX's mainline traffic on the former B&O route turns West on the double track B&OCT just this side of that CN/EJ&E overpass.
Since the Brookdale Spur has been abandoned and the B&O Bridge that crossed the Calumet River to access that spur was wrecked in 1988, this track is now just an industrial spur. It will soon join the NS tracks as shown by Nathan's photo below that is looking West. CSX's mainline traffic on the former B&O route turns West on the double track B&OCT just this side of that CN/EJ&E overpass.
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| Nathan Mackey commented on his above posting |
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Actually, this EJ&E bridge is not really near Buffington Harbor. I don't know why I didn't put it in the EJ&E bridge notes instead of here.
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| Arturo Gross posted his Flickr photo EJ&E SW1200 306 leads a transfer on the Whiting branch across the IN Harbor Canal at E. Chicago IN headed for Kirk Yard Dec 1996. Scott Pugh Doubt it was headed to Kirk Yard with just a switcher locomotive, during daylight hours, and without asphalt cars. Notice the ground crew is standing up with his coat on. Probably going to switch NID and Inland plant 4 |
I don't understand where we are facing in that second photo. Has something in it been removed since this was posted?
ReplyDeleteDennis, because it looks like it was taken above, here...
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...But you don't see the industrial track to the north of the NS Chicago Line double-tracked mainline or the signals over said tracks, or the utility poles, etc. So I'm wondering if this is not the location?
Indeed, a lot has been removed. We are seeing a snapshot of the abandonment of the Pennsy mainline through here after Conrail made Pennsy and NYC redundant in Northwest Indiana. I think the power poles and trees on the left is where the mainline used to be. It appears they connected a remnant of the Pennsy to the B&O. CSX got control of this part of Pennsy, and it already controlled the B&O. Now the Pennsy route accesses Chicagoland with a connection to the IHB at the Tolleston Junction, https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/09/tollestone-junction-csxnycmc-vs-cf.html. I added the topo map to these notes to show the old Pennsy mainline the Buffington Harbor area.
DeleteSo, is this at the spot I posted in my last post? I'm confused about the location and the double-track we're seeing.
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