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UP YPR60A navigates Tower A2 interlocking, home to some of the last C&NW-era GRS SA and Type E signals in existence. Not far behind it, rounding the bend at Noble Street is a California Avenue job shuttling coaches from Ogilvie for servicing.
Today's "T.T." Submission comes from a warm, hot and humid day in August a few years ago. Our District had our "family day" festivities and as part of the celebration we, along with the help and generosity of many others, brought SOO 1003 down with a photo freight from Wisconsin. Once done with the party, we got the 1003 out and around for some photo ops along the North Joint Trackage between Western Avenue and downtown, posed here by our still-manned Tower A2. I can almost still feel the sweat in the all the ungodly places on this hot, humid Saturday in August. Efforts to pull off the event were intense, but so worth it.
Metra 523 shoves an inbound into the city while an outbound sits at the platform. About an hour after this, a dust storm from central Illinois blew in and covered all of Chicago for the remainder of the evening.
UPY #729 pushes a commuter set out of California Avenue Yard over A2 interlocking. Buried under weeks and weeks of snow in the foreground right is the former Panhandle Lead, inactive since the ADM flour mill shut down in September, 2019; the dwarf signal is still powered.
UP YPR60 slowly navigates the interlocking at Tower A2 after switching the sole industry east of California Avenue as it meets West Line #44 pushed by the only F59PHI in full Metra livery. The second signal bridge contains two of the last GRS Type E signals in existence on the former C&NW. Noble Street can be seen in the distance.