I begin with an overview of how it fit into the Milwaukee Road. Note the Chicago & Pacific came from Tower A-5. crossed the C&NW northern branches at CY Tower (Clyborn Junction) and joined the C&E to go south to Union Station. This was the freight access to the C&E because Milwaukee's Galewood and Bensenville yards are west of Tower A-5. Passenger access to the C&E was from Union Station using a bridge that no longer exists to cross the Chicago River just north of Kinzie Street.
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I'm dividing the discussion of the C&E into segments. From north to south:
The northern segment had Peerless' business for less than a year. I have yet to determine what business was on the southern branch and when they abandoned it.
When I started rail (track) fanning in 2014, the lumber yard on Cherry Avenue on Goose Island was still receiving cars. In fact, they were left parked on Cherry Ave. So this was the status of CTR in 2014.
There was still a lot of industry along the line in 1973.
Resources for the C&E: Chicago Reader (the article is interesting, but read it and close it because the advertisements can hang your browser) ("Inconvenience to the sweat set occurs, at most, one or two days a week, whenever the Peerless Candy Company receives a shipment of sugar syrup. Peerless, on Lakewood between Schubert and Diversey"), Chicago Switching overview.
(Update: the lumber yard closed and the scrap yard is being kicked out as part of the gentrification of the industrial area north of Goose Island. Since the Chicago Terminal Railroad has no customers, the City of Chicago is taking control of the right-of-way in anticipation of a new public transit route. One problem is that the Cherry Avenue Bridge is not big enough for both pedestrians and busses or rail cars. The C&E trains ran so infrequently that sharing the bridge with pedestrians was not an issue. Hopefully, rapid transit would cross the bridge frequently.)
- Service north of Wilson: in latter years this was provided by the CTA
- Service between Wilson and Diversey: this is the segment that went past Wrigley Field
- Service between Diversey and C&E Junction: the last customer on the north side was Peerless Confections
- Service on Goose Island
- Service south of C&E Junction to Kinzie Street
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Resources for the C&E: Chicago Reader (the article is interesting, but read it and close it because the advertisements can hang your browser) ("Inconvenience to the sweat set occurs, at most, one or two days a week, whenever the Peerless Candy Company receives a shipment of sugar syrup. Peerless, on Lakewood between Schubert and Diversey"), Chicago Switching overview.
(Update: the lumber yard closed and the scrap yard is being kicked out as part of the gentrification of the industrial area north of Goose Island. Since the Chicago Terminal Railroad has no customers, the City of Chicago is taking control of the right-of-way in anticipation of a new public transit route. One problem is that the Cherry Avenue Bridge is not big enough for both pedestrians and busses or rail cars. The C&E trains ran so infrequently that sharing the bridge with pedestrians was not an issue. Hopefully, rapid transit would cross the bridge frequently.)
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If anyone is interested in Rail simulators, I;m still working on my Milwaukee Road in Chicago project (Goose Island, ca. 1947).
I was in my editor earlier and I thought this image might be worth posting. Everything shown except the track is created by myself.
The "camera" is positioned at 450 W Chicago Ave, looking south. The faint yellow lines are a visual aid above the track.
The scope of the project is centered at C&E Junction, W Cortland at Kingsbury, and runs NW to W. Belmont and SE past Union Station to the big PRR warehouse near Roosevelt Rd. IIRC this is about 4.25 miles.
Rail simulator projects do not need to compress distance and that's the case here... everything is indeed 12 inches to the foot.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on David's comment I knew that Milwaukee had a yard on Goose Island, but this image makes it more real than just a 1938 aerial photo. And it reminds me that there was a gasometer near the south side of Goose Island in addition to some that were north of the island. I checked, the Ogden Viaduct over Goose Island and Milwaukee's mainline was not removed until 1993. So it should be in this model as well. https://forgottenchicago.com/.../the-extension-and.../ |
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One more screenshot from the simulator project I'm working on (The Milwaukee Road's Division Street Yard on Goose Island). This is an aerial panorama.
FB has done a huge reduction in size. If you want to see it a bit larger you need to click on the image and then right mouse click.select view image, and then click on the image once more to enlarge.
Enjoy.
David H. Nelson Here is a link to half size image: http://www.elvastower.com/forums/index.php... Eric Quick OpenRails? David H. Nelson Of course. OR is the only sim that does reasonably realistic physics. Easier to do both freeware and open source projects too. I'll be uploaded Goose Island as a very incomplete freeware "alpha" soon (elvastower). I own elvastower.com; I'll be posting a link for a freeware download of this route within the month. It's very incomplete but it can still be fun if you are into industrial switching. |
I went biking recently and came across a remarkable scene at the intersection of Diversey and Lakewood: railroad tracks running South down the middle of Lakewood with expensive houses on both sides of the street. How cool is that! I believe these tracks were part of the Milwaukee Road line that ran Southwesterly past Wrigley Field and serviced the many factories in the area at that time. And I'd like to think that the home owners wanted no part of any attempt to cover up the tracks, as welel as a signature feature of the street.
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