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A 1992 video begins with a train heading southeast across this bridge.
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| Michael Matalis posted Southbound transfer on the IHB crossing the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal at Argo back on 12/13/80. GTW GP38, DT&I GP38, C&NW GP35; those were the days!!!!! If you tried this today the only photos you'd get would be of the inside of a police car. Dennis DeBruler I agree with your Flickr post, it is n/b, not s/b. Actually, belt railroads are east/west so it is w/b. https://www.flickr.com/photos/prairierailfan/15140049263/ |
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| Jerry Jackson updated Jerry Jackson updated GTW 6226.6408.6222 on the IHB southbound, Summit, IL 1989. John Thompson All ex-D T & I units Jerry Jackson posted Ex-DTI Monday. A GP40-2 sandwich with GP38-2 bread. All looking good and all headed south on the IHB and about to pass through Argo yard in Summit, IL. July 1991. GP38-2 6222 leads, GP40-2 6408 and GP38-2 6226. Chuck Mager: Jeff Lewis That bridge had a 10MPH speed restriction, and scared me every time we had to cross it!! |
The asymmetrical span in Jerry's photo indicates that it was one side of a swing bridge. The 3D Satellite image at the top shows a symmetrical span. (Update: that is because the truss was replaced in the early 1990s. [comments on a post])
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| Ken Schmidt commented on Jerry's second update I think this was several months before they replaced that bridge. I wish I had known how to get to the north side of that canal. |
The following three photos have this bridge in the background.
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| Jerry Jackson posted An A-B-A (NW2-BU52-NW2) 3000 hp line-up that I HAD to shoot. That's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it... [He shot this from I-55. Street View It looks like the northwest span still had its truss back then.] |
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| Jerry Jackson posted PB1 and SW1500 9204 were paired throughout most of their working lives. I caught the pair pulling into Argo, heading south by direction. Remnants of the turnout control rods from the GM&O/IC CA tower are seen in the foreground. 1987 photo. Rob Barker is that a GE fuel tank for ballast? or is it a fuel tender? Jerry Jackson Ballast. It's a slug. Evie N Bob Bruns This is an eastbound job returning to Argo about to cross the GM&O. That bridge is the one that collapsed a few times over the years. I was on a westbound southeastern when we took out a couple columns with a wide load in 1970. we called the bridge/water as the "Shit Canal". McCook was not that close to this bridge one had to go over the Des Plaines River bridge first and the rods never went that far. The 9204 slug was kept at Argo for years it was sent to Blue Island on weekends for maintenence then back to Argo. There was an old Southeastern engineer that every time went over this bridge he would throw a handful of Roosevelt dimes into the canal as he hated Roosevelt so much. There's a lot of money down there. Daniel Feldstein And those two locomotives are still being used to this day if I'm not mistaken. Daniel Feldstein Not just lightly used either I've seen them really shoving shit around pretty hard core. Jerry Jackson posted IHB PB1 and SW1500 9402 are about to cross the old IC line and either pass through or end up at Argo yard in Summit, IL. the remains of this train are crossing the ATSF in McCook. |
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| Jerry Jackson commented on his posting above Dennis DeBruler The round pier in the middle confirms the reason the top of the truss has a slant is because it used to be part of a swing bridge. |
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Jerry Jackson posted
Same location, different day, different angle.
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| Jerry Jackson posted A pair of SOO LINE SD40-2's approaching the GM&O/IC diamond in Summit, IL on the IHB, 1987. The old "armstrong" control rods for CA tower are in the foreground. Taken the same day as the IHB PB1 9204 photo. Scott Malec Wait, that third unit is the newer candy apple scheme right? I thought those didn't debut until like '89-'90 or am I wrong? Jerry Jackson It could be 89. |
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The south truss has been replaced.
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| Nick Hart posted After making its departure from the nearby BRC Clearing Yard, Y HOD303 utilizes the IHB Mainline as it crosses the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal, just west of Canal. Not far up ahead, the train will make the turn onto the BNSF and arrive into its destination of GM Yard. Leading the train is a couple of H4 60M's, GP and SD. The McCook Reservoir is to the right. July 27th, 2020 Nathan Hess: When did that GP show up? Didn’t think any were based out of Chicago. Nick Hart: I think this was one of the only trips it made around Chicago. It led out on 105 later that afternoon. Robert Learmont: It showed up in late July off a work train that terminated in Galesburg. I sent it out on the 104 pretty quickly after that. It only lasted a short amount of time before it was sent packing. |
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| Steven J. Brown shared Dennis DeBruler The "half bridge"https://www.google.com/.../@41.783158,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3 His post Mark Bilecki Sr. Nice the old bridge a year before it was replaced. Dennis DeBruler Except for the addition of some dolphins, it looks like the same bridge recently. https://www.google.com/.../@41.7818932,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Marty Bernard posted, the post has another photo that catches the lead locomotives. Here's an Interesting Way to Take Roster Shots CNW 5053, 6835, 6802, and UP 2417on IHB's Sag Canal Bridge, Chicago, IL on September 26, 1987. The units: GP50 built 5/89, SD40-2 built 3/74, SD40-2 built 8-/73, and needing a paint job was a UP C30-7 built 6/78. Dennis DeBruler Admin The second photo provides a nice view of the circular pier that held the original swing bridge. The north side of the bridge was damaged around 1963, and that part was replaced by a steel girder deck bridge. |
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