CP Shoving East on Bloomingdale Line at Elston Avenue Chicago March 2006_edited-1
I was lucky to catch this CP job taking a load of sugar up to Peerless Confectionery on a grey day in March of 2006. Within nine months shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operations on the former Milwaukee Road North Side lines then in a little over a year Peerless would be out of business.
I had not seen this maneuver before. CP is shoving the load east on the Bloomingdale Line after entering it from the connection with UP where CP was a tenant at UP's North Avenue Yard. The crew member is presumably waiting for the swing bridge over the Chicago River to be moved into position then he will ride the hopper to C&E Junction. At C&E Junction in the middle of Kingsbury Street the CP crew will back up on to the C&E Line from the Bloomingdale Line then head north to Peerless.
CP Shoving East on Bloomingdale Line at Elston Avenue Chicago March 2006_edited-1
I was lucky to catch this CP job taking a load of sugar up to Peerless Confectionery on a grey day in March of 2006. Within nine months shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operations on the former Milwaukee Road North Side lines then in a little over a year Peerless would be out of business.
I had not seen this maneuver before. CP is shoving the load east on the Bloomingdale Line after entering it from the connection with UP where CP was a tenant at UP's North Avenue Yard. The crew member is presumably waiting for the swing bridge over the Chicago River to be moved into position then he will ride the hopper to C&E Junction. At C&E Junction in the middle of Kingsbury Street the CP crew will back up on to the C&E Line from the Bloomingdale Line then head north to Peerless.