I lived on 49th place between Laflin and Loomis. Those tracks were are fun in the winter. We would use what ever we could find to slide down that snow covered hill. Two long freight trains would come by every day one about 12:O0 noon, and another about 5:00 PM. Then you had the passenger trains that came by when ever, and they were fast. You had to be careful because the top of the hill was close
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