Changing Cityscape
It's hard to imagine looking at it now, but this corner (North Avenue at Kingsbury Street) was, up until recently quite industrialized. The Milwaukee Road's Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line went through here.
When Kingsbury Street was heavily rebuilt in the 1980s, it was done so with a single track with spurs in order to serve the remaining customers here. MILW's successors Soo and CP continued to operate here until about the late 1990s. However, according to Tom Burke, "In 2007 Chicago Terminal spotted a boxcar on the former spur to Midwest Zinc to help assert its rights to this section of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston,"
Changing Cityscape
It's hard to imagine looking at it now, but this corner (North Avenue at Kingsbury Street) was, up until recently quite industrialized. The Milwaukee Road's Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line went through here.
When Kingsbury Street was heavily rebuilt in the 1980s, it was done so with a single track with spurs in order to serve the remaining customers here. MILW's successors Soo and CP continued to operate here until about the late 1990s. However, according to Tom Burke, "In 2007 Chicago Terminal spotted a boxcar on the former spur to Midwest Zinc to help assert its rights to this section of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston,"