Dead Cold Local
NS 4703 sits crewless at Noble Street, Chicago, waiting to switch the ADM mill at Racine Avenue on one of the area's last remaining remnants of the Pennsy "Panhandle" line. Stiff winds were blowing powdery snow into drifts across the lightly-used trackage and across to the Metra Milwaukee District and UP West lines. In the distance is the long-abandoned bridge that once hosted the Metropolitan West Side Elevated's- later Chicago Rapid Transit's, and briefly, CTA's- Logan Square trains before construction of the Dearborn Subway rendered it moot. For the last sixty or so years, it has been in continued use as a massively oversized signal bridge.
Dead Cold Local
NS 4703 sits crewless at Noble Street, Chicago, waiting to switch the ADM mill at Racine Avenue on one of the area's last remaining remnants of the Pennsy "Panhandle" line. Stiff winds were blowing powdery snow into drifts across the lightly-used trackage and across to the Metra Milwaukee District and UP West lines. In the distance is the long-abandoned bridge that once hosted the Metropolitan West Side Elevated's- later Chicago Rapid Transit's, and briefly, CTA's- Logan Square trains before construction of the Dearborn Subway rendered it moot. For the last sixty or so years, it has been in continued use as a massively oversized signal bridge.