Hello everybody!Welcome to "Eddie's Railfan Page". Today we will see some photographs taken in and around Chicago Illinois from 2005 and 2006 respectively.
In the "Archives" section of postings for May of 2006, I had did a couple of postings entitled "My old neighborhood railroad. The end of the line?" I am sad to say that the old industrial former "Illinois Northern Railroad" branch line that Santa Fe had operated until 1995 and BNSF until 2000, has been cut back to "Spaulding Avenue just north of 31st Street.
This railroad line has experienced much "Deferred Maintenance" by the succesor company DRS Rail Services. This is the 30th Street railroad crossing seen in the May archives. Notice that "Vegetation" has been allowed to grow uncontrolled and has obliterated the lower crossing flashers. The fact that it was in this bad of shape in June 2005 gave suspicion that this section of railroad was already abandoned or unused. The former once prosperous Illinois Northern railroad has gradually lost it's online Industries one by one. The rails east of Spaulding Avenue, have been disconnected beyond a temporary fence.
There is only one or two customers served by rail on this line, and are switched as needed.
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