North Avenue
UP Northwest #713 rolls past a nearly empty North Avenue Yard which now primarily serves as a MOW base. Above the lead engine in the background is St. Stanislaus Kostka, the second church on the site built in 1881. Before the future Kennedy Expressway was built, the C&NW ran behind the east side of the church. When the construction of the expressway began in the 1950s, a furious community effort resulted in the realignment of the proposed freeway and a complete relocation of the C&NW mainline. It also, more or less, resulted in the construction of North Avenue Yard.
North Avenue
UP Northwest #713 rolls past a nearly empty North Avenue Yard which now primarily serves as a MOW base. Above the lead engine in the background is St. Stanislaus Kostka, the second church on the site built in 1881. Before the future Kennedy Expressway was built, the C&NW ran behind the east side of the church. When the construction of the expressway began in the 1950s, a furious community effort resulted in the realignment of the proposed freeway and a complete relocation of the C&NW mainline. It also, more or less, resulted in the construction of North Avenue Yard.