Yard: (Satellite, the brown strip along the lakefront)
EJ&E was owned by US Steel and it connected all of its properties in the Chicagoland area including the wire product works in Waukegan. Since that plant was abandoned in 1979, EJ&E has been abandoning the area. Also, Waukegan wants the lakefront property. So this yard is now gone.
Freight House
The silos as well as the freight house motivated this posting. Given that the newer ones in the middle are owned by Lafarge North American, I'd bet they hold cement, not grain.
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| Sam Carlson posted EJ&E Freight House in Waukegan in March, 1974. We're looking northeast. Pat Adamek posted EJ&E in my hometown of Waukegan Illinois. Right near the Lake Michigan harbor entrance! John Eggebrecht: The good old center cab. When was this picture taken? Pat Adamek: John Eggebrecht , 1974 |
Pershing Road was added since 1939.
The roundhouse was at the north end of the yard.
The US Steel Works was at the south end of the yard.
CN had filed with the Surface Transportation Board to abandon their EJ&E route into Waukegan. Waukegan wanted to improve the lakefront area. But CN has abandoned the abandonment. (source) I wonder if the power plant plans to continue burning coal and CN wants the option to get the coal train business. As of 2019, the satellite image shows an actively maintained coal storage pile.
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
Railyard
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its Nov 1974 were at EJ&E Waukegan's yard with SD-9 leading center cab's. |
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| Sam Carlson posted 37 years ago today [Jan 17, 1982], at dawn in Waukegan, IL. Felton Sam Turner I was down that way last week and the Canadian national Railway guys were down there taking up switch tracks and putting in straight tracks - I miss the EJ&E when I was a kid crossing the road to the cement factory by the dock where the big Sam Laud ship would dock that made one hell of a picture back in 1975 , if I would of had a camera |
The roundhouse was at the north end of the yard.
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| USGS, 1960 Weukegan (sic), 1:24,000 |
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
CN had filed with the Surface Transportation Board to abandon their EJ&E route into Waukegan. Waukegan wanted to improve the lakefront area. But CN has abandoned the abandonment. (source) I wonder if the power plant plans to continue burning coal and CN wants the option to get the coal train business. As of 2019, the satellite image shows an actively maintained coal storage pile.
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