The Dempster Street railroad crossing. Des Plaines Illinois USA. April 2012.

The Dempster Street railroad crossing. Des Plaines Illinois USA. April 2012., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

Hi everyone!

Welcome aboard Eddie's Railfan Page, from the city of Chicago Illinois USA.

I took this photograph a few days ago, in northwest suburban Des Plaines Illinois.

Seen here, is the Dempster Street railroad crossing. This crossing guards the many transfer freight train movements, that operate over the Union Pacific Railroad's former Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad freight only cut off line.

This line passes through the Techny Illinois area near Northbrook Illinois, and is sometimes refered to by local Chicago area railfans, as the"U.P Techny Line".

This freight only railroad artery, keeps freight trains off of the Metra / Milwaukee District (Ex Milwaukee Road) northline to Fox Lake Illinois south of Northbrook Illinois, and the Union Pacific's former Chicago & Northwestern Railroad northline as well.

Unit coal trains from the Union Pacific and the BNSF Railway enroute to the Wisconsin Electric Power Company plant at Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin, are a common daily sight traveling over this rail line, as are unit grain trains from the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

Thanks.
Eddie K.