Tom Burke Photo UP Shoving Down Former Borg-Warner Spur Material at Windsor Loves Park IL Dec. 20 2017 #5
Union Pacific resumed use of its industrial lead that parallels Material Avenue in the Rockford suburb of Loves Park in early 2016 to service the Cimco scrapyard on Windsor Road. It had been out of service since Kitzman’s Lumber closed in the same location in July of 2011. The track is in relatively rough condition with an undulating appearance.
The signals had to be restored at the intersection of Windsor and Material including digging out and reinstalling the electric connections.
UP reaches the half mile long lead to Cimco from its Kenosha Division or KD line that leaves the former C&NW Freeport line in downtown Rockford and heads north including a long section of street running and trackage shared with a streetcar on summer weekends. UP also services Rock Valley Oil & Chemical directly off the KD at Windsor, a few blocks east of Cimco.
To switch Cimco the UP crews use the spur to the former Borg-Warner clutch plant to move cars in and out of the Cimco spur. At one time other industries were serviced off this lead including Barber-Coleman.
Tom Burke Photo UP Shoving Down Former Borg-Warner Spur Material at Windsor Loves Park IL Dec. 20 2017 #5
Union Pacific resumed use of its industrial lead that parallels Material Avenue in the Rockford suburb of Loves Park in early 2016 to service the Cimco scrapyard on Windsor Road. It had been out of service since Kitzman’s Lumber closed in the same location in July of 2011. The track is in relatively rough condition with an undulating appearance.
The signals had to be restored at the intersection of Windsor and Material including digging out and reinstalling the electric connections.
UP reaches the half mile long lead to Cimco from its Kenosha Division or KD line that leaves the former C&NW Freeport line in downtown Rockford and heads north including a long section of street running and trackage shared with a streetcar on summer weekends. UP also services Rock Valley Oil & Chemical directly off the KD at Windsor, a few blocks east of Cimco.
To switch Cimco the UP crews use the spur to the former Borg-Warner clutch plant to move cars in and out of the Cimco spur. At one time other industries were serviced off this lead including Barber-Coleman.