A Different Angle on UP Switching the Chicago Tribune
It seems like these days everyone is getting their photos of the UP job working the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center printing press before it is torn down and replaced by the new casino. I thought I would add a few of my own.
In this view the UP engine is heading out on the Tribune spur after dropping off a single boxcar load of newsprint on a hazy Friday morning. It previously pulled out the empties. Above is the Ohio/Ontario Feeder Ramp. The massive, grey building in the background on the right is the former Montgomery Ward catalog building which was served by the Milwaukee Road's C&E Line.
I caught it heading south along the Kennedy Expressway near Lawrence Avenue around 10:30 this morning on its way to the Tribune if anyone else wants to catch it. It goes down there M-W-F. Blommer did not see any action and the train later went down the Cragin Line to work Alpha Baking.
Newspaper production, BTW, will come out of the former and recently closed Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printing press in West Milwaukee which Tribune parent Alden purchased earlier this year, once the Freedom Center is shut down. Print copies of the Tribune and other papers it produces under contract for the Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times will then be trucked down in the mornings to the Chicago area for distribution.
A Different Angle on UP Switching the Chicago Tribune
It seems like these days everyone is getting their photos of the UP job working the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center printing press before it is torn down and replaced by the new casino. I thought I would add a few of my own.
In this view the UP engine is heading out on the Tribune spur after dropping off a single boxcar load of newsprint on a hazy Friday morning. It previously pulled out the empties. Above is the Ohio/Ontario Feeder Ramp. The massive, grey building in the background on the right is the former Montgomery Ward catalog building which was served by the Milwaukee Road's C&E Line.
I caught it heading south along the Kennedy Expressway near Lawrence Avenue around 10:30 this morning on its way to the Tribune if anyone else wants to catch it. It goes down there M-W-F. Blommer did not see any action and the train later went down the Cragin Line to work Alpha Baking.
Newspaper production, BTW, will come out of the former and recently closed Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printing press in West Milwaukee which Tribune parent Alden purchased earlier this year, once the Freedom Center is shut down. Print copies of the Tribune and other papers it produces under contract for the Sun-Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times will then be trucked down in the mornings to the Chicago area for distribution.