CTM Passing Shanty on Bridge Z-6 Eastbound on Bloomingdale Line Chicago Jan. 2 2007
After Iowa Pacific personnel including Ed Elis first arrived, parking their vehicles behind Final Steel, and swung the bridge in place Mike the conductor gives the all clear to Ken the engineer to proceed across former Milwaukee Road bridge Z-6 from the shanty. The shanty on the bridge at least initially served as the office for Chicago Terminal. A multifunction copier/FAX/printer was installed there on opening day.
Virtually everything in the scene is gone now, torn down as it awaits redevelopment as the planned Lincoln Yards project. Bridge Z-6 will be retained as a viewing platform while a new pedestrian and bike bridge will span the river, completing the 606 Trail.
Second in a series of screen grabs I will post from video I took on the first day of Chicago Terminal operations as it made its way from the UP North Avenue Yard where it was a tenant on its way to switch Finkl Steel and Peerless Confectionery. I was a guest of Ed Ellis for the first two days of operations to document it. I also wound up acting as a pilot for the crew as CP left behind no instructions.
Images are from converted from DVD format and cleaned up as much as possible in Photoshop. It was a dreary, overcast day with rain on and off again, and the SW8 engine in which we were riding was rocking back and forth which made taking videos a challenge.
If you want to see a video of mine that shows CP working this line go to-
studio.youtube.com/video/pQXSrwYdoQk/edit
Due to conversations in the cab that the crew probably didn't want being made public I am not going to share the full video of this trip plus I do not feel like taking the time to edit out the audio. Enjoy the still images instead from those first two days in this album.
CTM Passing Shanty on Bridge Z-6 Eastbound on Bloomingdale Line Chicago Jan. 2 2007
After Iowa Pacific personnel including Ed Elis first arrived, parking their vehicles behind Final Steel, and swung the bridge in place Mike the conductor gives the all clear to Ken the engineer to proceed across former Milwaukee Road bridge Z-6 from the shanty. The shanty on the bridge at least initially served as the office for Chicago Terminal. A multifunction copier/FAX/printer was installed there on opening day.
Virtually everything in the scene is gone now, torn down as it awaits redevelopment as the planned Lincoln Yards project. Bridge Z-6 will be retained as a viewing platform while a new pedestrian and bike bridge will span the river, completing the 606 Trail.
Second in a series of screen grabs I will post from video I took on the first day of Chicago Terminal operations as it made its way from the UP North Avenue Yard where it was a tenant on its way to switch Finkl Steel and Peerless Confectionery. I was a guest of Ed Ellis for the first two days of operations to document it. I also wound up acting as a pilot for the crew as CP left behind no instructions.
Images are from converted from DVD format and cleaned up as much as possible in Photoshop. It was a dreary, overcast day with rain on and off again, and the SW8 engine in which we were riding was rocking back and forth which made taking videos a challenge.
If you want to see a video of mine that shows CP working this line go to-
studio.youtube.com/video/pQXSrwYdoQk/edit
Due to conversations in the cab that the crew probably didn't want being made public I am not going to share the full video of this trip plus I do not feel like taking the time to edit out the audio. Enjoy the still images instead from those first two days in this album.