North Avenue Yard
UP YPR60B is tied down in front of the North Avenue yard office after dying during the previous day's afternoon rush presumably due to mechanical issues with the #815, a scene reminiscent of the pre-Covid days when YNO68 would tie up here every weekend. Bringing up the markers, as usual, is CNW waycar #11119 which is used on the shove down the Cragin Lead to reach Alpha Baking.
This yard was built during the construction of the Kennedy Expressway in the 1950s when the C&NW right-of-way was moved east of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. The original yard was located on the west side of the ROW at the site where the expressway crosses over North Avenue. The switch in the foreground was for the switchback for Morton Salt which shut down in 2015. With the last North Avenue-based job abolished in 2020 and the remaining rail-served industries in the area on the verge of eradication, it remains to be seen what will become of the yard. For now, it is mainly used for maintenance-of-way.
North Avenue Yard
UP YPR60B is tied down in front of the North Avenue yard office after dying during the previous day's afternoon rush presumably due to mechanical issues with the #815, a scene reminiscent of the pre-Covid days when YNO68 would tie up here every weekend. Bringing up the markers, as usual, is CNW waycar #11119 which is used on the shove down the Cragin Lead to reach Alpha Baking.
This yard was built during the construction of the Kennedy Expressway in the 1950s when the C&NW right-of-way was moved east of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. The original yard was located on the west side of the ROW at the site where the expressway crosses over North Avenue. The switch in the foreground was for the switchback for Morton Salt which shut down in 2015. With the last North Avenue-based job abolished in 2020 and the remaining rail-served industries in the area on the verge of eradication, it remains to be seen what will become of the yard. For now, it is mainly used for maintenance-of-way.