Pennsy on the Panhandle (Sort Of)
Okay, I'm cheating a bit- the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Panhandle" line (the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) was located in the vacant space to the right. Just north of here, it swung east on its final approach to Chicago Union Station. NS retains one track from near Tower A-2 to Racine Avenue to switch the ADM mill there, and uses trackage rights on UP to access it. Aside from short sections in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood and in Riverdale and Dolton, as an active rail line the Panhandle has disappeared from the area. Through the Beverly, Washington Heights and West Pullman neighborhoods of Chicago's far south side, it exists as the Major Taylor Trail.
Anyway, here, NS 8102- the PRR heritage unit- is heading south on UP's former CNW Rockwell Sub, passing above Washington Boulevard with an empty WEPX Oak Creek coal train, bound for reloading back east on NS rails. The disused spur in the foreground served ADP Pallet, an industry that has switched to trucks for its needs. To the left is the architecturally-significant L&H Building, once a showroom and warehouse for an appliance manufacturer, then for a cash register company. Naturally, it once had a rail spur. Today it has been revamped into environmentally-friendly loft apartments, an outpost of posh development in an otherwise somewhat rough neighborhood.
Pennsy on the Panhandle (Sort Of)
Okay, I'm cheating a bit- the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Panhandle" line (the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) was located in the vacant space to the right. Just north of here, it swung east on its final approach to Chicago Union Station. NS retains one track from near Tower A-2 to Racine Avenue to switch the ADM mill there, and uses trackage rights on UP to access it. Aside from short sections in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood and in Riverdale and Dolton, as an active rail line the Panhandle has disappeared from the area. Through the Beverly, Washington Heights and West Pullman neighborhoods of Chicago's far south side, it exists as the Major Taylor Trail.
Anyway, here, NS 8102- the PRR heritage unit- is heading south on UP's former CNW Rockwell Sub, passing above Washington Boulevard with an empty WEPX Oak Creek coal train, bound for reloading back east on NS rails. The disused spur in the foreground served ADP Pallet, an industry that has switched to trucks for its needs. To the left is the architecturally-significant L&H Building, once a showroom and warehouse for an appliance manufacturer, then for a cash register company. Naturally, it once had a rail spur. Today it has been revamped into environmentally-friendly loft apartments, an outpost of posh development in an otherwise somewhat rough neighborhood.