Chicago Terminal Lakewood at Diversey August 23 2008 #1 by Tom Burke Via Flickr: In August of 2008 a passenger train returned to the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line for the first time since 1908. Chicago Terminal parent Iowa Pacific operated a shipper special excursion on the C&E which include a Cubs game at nearby Wrigley Field. It was the last train north of Clybourn Avenue and Chicago Terminal itself would be done in the city in 2017. The train parked on the former Peerless Confectionery spur on August 22. The next day when a crew arrived to take the private car Caritas back the spur was blocked by cars that parked overnight. A sympathetic Chicago police officer who came on the scene called city wreckers to clear the cars. The train was on its was until blocked again by more cars on the track outside the Lakeshore Athletic Club by Fullerton. Chicago Terminal waited until the night to try to bring the train back to the North Avenue Yard. Video of this operation is here- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBoNF0bcfOM&t=65s
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CP Heading North C&E Line Lakewood at Schubert Chicago September 18 2002 by Tom Burke Via Flickr: “The only time I caught this MP15 in its very unusual paint scheme was on an early fall day way back in 2002 on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. The crew was traveling light to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery. Note the battered Griswold crossing signal-the Milwaukee Road was its largest customer. The Milwaukee Road was able to successfully petition the ICC in 1979 to stop maintaining signals on the C&E due to frequent vandalism in the pre-gentrification era. In return it was reduced to 10MPH speeds and flagging major crossings. Less than five years later this scene would just be a memory as Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 and with it freight service on this stretch of the C&E by CP successor Chicago Terminal.”
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“This Soo Line crew is slowly making its way north along the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Since the late 1980s this former industrial corridor has been transformed into retail and residential. This MP15 has to pass through a shopping center, between condos, and the parking lot of a health club to reach Peerless Confectionery at Diversey.”
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January 20, 2004
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “CTA Pullman 643 is westbound at North and Halsted on August 14, 1948. That section of L at the rear, part of a section known as the ‘triple curve’, is still there today, and is used by Brown and Purple Line trains.”
The building on the corner at left is still standing, but nothing to the right of it remains, including the long line of businesses on the other side of the L bridge:
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Photo by Robert Selle (Wien-Criss Archive)
From The Trolley Dodger blog: “It’s August 17, 1956, and southbound PCC 7192 is about to stop at a safety island at Clark and Armitage.”
This view is looking north on Clark Street (Armitage is behind the photographer). The street going off to the right is Lincoln Park West. The triangular building to the right of the trolley is now PNC Bank:
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Photo by Joseph M. Canfield