The Machine Shop
UP YPR60A switches its final customer at M19A: Industrial Warehouse off Kilbourn. This repurposed warehouse, located in the back, was originally Building M50, the machine shop of C&NW's enormous 40th Street shops complex. Bounded by Chicago Avenue to the north, Pulaski/Crawford to the east, the Galena Division to the south, and the Belt to the west, 40th Street was the North Western's general locomotive shops in Chicago and contained maintenance facilities for the railroad's long-distance passenger trains and a freight yard. Allegedly during its heyday, 40th Street employed more people than the entire railroad did during the 1995 merger. Over the course of several decades, C&NW downgraded 40th Street and converted most of the land into an industrial park. M50, the machine shop, was practically the only building besides M19 and M19A to survive.
The Machine Shop
UP YPR60A switches its final customer at M19A: Industrial Warehouse off Kilbourn. This repurposed warehouse, located in the back, was originally Building M50, the machine shop of C&NW's enormous 40th Street shops complex. Bounded by Chicago Avenue to the north, Pulaski/Crawford to the east, the Galena Division to the south, and the Belt to the west, 40th Street was the North Western's general locomotive shops in Chicago and contained maintenance facilities for the railroad's long-distance passenger trains and a freight yard. Allegedly during its heyday, 40th Street employed more people than the entire railroad did during the 1995 merger. Over the course of several decades, C&NW downgraded 40th Street and converted most of the land into an industrial park. M50, the machine shop, was practically the only building besides M19 and M19A to survive.