This is a Blue Line Train to Forest Park
The weird center exits the Village of Oak Park forced on the traffic engineers when they were building the Eisenhower Expressway in the 1950s also forced the engineers to shift the location of the tracks for the CTA Blue Line they were building simultaneously. The Blue Line was designed to run down the center of the highway, but that's where the Village of Oak Park wanted the exits. This forced the Blue Line tracks to shift to the outside, so that they run along the highway's south side for a few miles.
Here, you can see the view down onto the tracks from the Circle Avenue overpass one block inside the Village of Forest Park. The Blue Line is passing under tracks that I think belong to Union Pacific, then will shift right to pass over the Eisenhower to get to the end of the line at the Forest Park Station, which is on the north side of the highway. This makes me wonder why they didn't shift the tracks north of the highway to begin with, as that would have saved them a bridge.
Edit: I never used to make Explore back in the old days, but it seems that in my absence something about my photography has evolved to move closer to the flickr algorithm, and here I am!
This is a Blue Line Train to Forest Park
The weird center exits the Village of Oak Park forced on the traffic engineers when they were building the Eisenhower Expressway in the 1950s also forced the engineers to shift the location of the tracks for the CTA Blue Line they were building simultaneously. The Blue Line was designed to run down the center of the highway, but that's where the Village of Oak Park wanted the exits. This forced the Blue Line tracks to shift to the outside, so that they run along the highway's south side for a few miles.
Here, you can see the view down onto the tracks from the Circle Avenue overpass one block inside the Village of Forest Park. The Blue Line is passing under tracks that I think belong to Union Pacific, then will shift right to pass over the Eisenhower to get to the end of the line at the Forest Park Station, which is on the north side of the highway. This makes me wonder why they didn't shift the tracks north of the highway to begin with, as that would have saved them a bridge.
Edit: I never used to make Explore back in the old days, but it seems that in my absence something about my photography has evolved to move closer to the flickr algorithm, and here I am!