This is part of the CNW line. Here's some more info: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cnw_weber_sksub/?prop=eupdate http://www.trainweb.org/evrailfan/chap1a.html
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I'm gonna make a trip down there and get some pics. I haven't seen any activity there since I was a kid.
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Wow, this brings back some memories
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Sorry but you set yourself up with that post. I showed this to a coworker, who laughed his ass off, and he recalls a similar restuaraunt but west of LSD. crowamonghens Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i know, right? > > now come on guys.
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Sounds like your mom wasn't the only one on LSD crowamonghens Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > in the early 70's my ma worked at the holiday inn > on LSD and often she would take me around that > area for whatever. i swear i remember seeing a > restaurant around there where the entrance was a > giant fish's head, and you would walk thru t
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Here's another link about the Mayfair spur that heads to Evanston: http://www.trainweb.org/evrailfan/chap1a.html
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shekaago Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > CrazyIvan, > > Yes, there actually was a Dunning Station! I just > wish I could find an old photo of it. Back in the > 80's we (the neighborhood kids of driving age) > used to drive really fast down Roscoe and Cornelia > to try to "catch air" over the bumps in the > pavement where
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scottnchgo27 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As far as I can remember, the train tracks behind > the BrickYard Mall were used by the Carey Brick > Company on Fullerton and Natchez. Once the brick > company closed, the tracks were only used between > other factories. They contiuned just west of > Belmont along side the Kimball Candy Company.
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shekaago, thanks for your input. I've seen a slightly more recent map that shows the line terminating in the middle if the cemetery just North of Addison. On Chicagoswitching.com someone left a link to a pic for me. Brought back some childhood memories. Keep me informed on your research. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwdavidson/3913052227/in/set-72157621126657535/
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HI, growing up I remember railroad tracks that ran next to the Brickyard on the Northwest side. I remember even seein a train cross Grand avenue and I thought it was the coolest thing. According to an old map it ran up to Irving. The tracks that crossed Belmont and Addison are now gone. I know they serviced some of the factories on Diversy and Nashville. Was this a remnant of the old crazy train?
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I used to work at Osco on Cumberland and Lawrence in High School. The address there was Pueblo and I couldn't figure out why until someone explained that Pueblo is Cumberland in that section and Thatcher further south. That was weird because at the time I used to live on Thatcher near Osco and it wasn't Cumberland.
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Here's another perspective I've found: http://weirdchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/resurrection-mary-mary-miskowski.html
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