Throwing the Switch At Peerless Confectionery Diversey at Lakewood Chicago September 18 2002 #2
That's how it's done, throwing a switch set in the street as the CP Rail conductor shows.
Rare plumage for CP with this former North Louisiana & Gulf MP15. It was the only time I caught this engine working the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. It's on its way to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery using street trackage.
Everything in this scene is gone now. Peerless Confectionery closed in May of 2007 and was torn down a short time later and replaced by condos. The last rail movement on this line was in 2009 when CP successor Chicago Terminal spotted gondolas on the former Peerless spur to assert its rights to the tracks.
As of the latest Google Streetview, remarkably tracks remain in the street.
Throwing the Switch At Peerless Confectionery Diversey at Lakewood Chicago September 18 2002 #2
That's how it's done, throwing a switch set in the street as the CP Rail conductor shows.
Rare plumage for CP with this former North Louisiana & Gulf MP15. It was the only time I caught this engine working the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. It's on its way to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery using street trackage.
Everything in this scene is gone now. Peerless Confectionery closed in May of 2007 and was torn down a short time later and replaced by condos. The last rail movement on this line was in 2009 when CP successor Chicago Terminal spotted gondolas on the former Peerless spur to assert its rights to the tracks.
As of the latest Google Streetview, remarkably tracks remain in the street.