Ended up meeting one of my friends from California that I only knew online for awhile until about a month ago. Found out they were around the corner from my apartment at the massive lift bridges over the Calumet River on the East Side of Chicago and decided to meet them there. They decided to get as close as they could to the former New York Central Lift Bridges, while I saw an opportunity to have the Tahoe dwarfed by something much larger than it.
Did we get called in: yes
Did we get caught: no
Was it worth it: totally
History lesson: the tracks to the right are the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line to Fort Wayne. At CP506, back in town where I live, the tracks swing over to the alignment of the former NYC Water Level Route. Basically trains headed west ride the former PRR main into Chicago while throughout Indiana and Ohio the eastbound ride the former Water Level Route. All of this is now owned by Norfolk Southern, and part of it, including where I'm at, is known as the NS Chicago Line. Also off view is the former Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Bridge, which was destroyed in 1988 after a lake freighter, the Pontokratis, took out the jack knife Bridge that was here.
Chicago, Illinois
Did we get called in: yes
Did we get caught: no
Was it worth it: totally
History lesson: the tracks to the right are the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line to Fort Wayne. At CP506, back in town where I live, the tracks swing over to the alignment of the former NYC Water Level Route. Basically trains headed west ride the former PRR main into Chicago while throughout Indiana and Ohio the eastbound ride the former Water Level Route. All of this is now owned by Norfolk Southern, and part of it, including where I'm at, is known as the NS Chicago Line. Also off view is the former Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Bridge, which was destroyed in 1988 after a lake freighter, the Pontokratis, took out the jack knife Bridge that was here.
Chicago, Illinois
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