Hi All,
If anyone here can help Edward, please send you answers to both him and the
list.
Dave Lotz
Pooler, GA
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Rhodes [mailto:erhodes@usc.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:12 PM
To: BRHS@burlingtonroute.com
Cc: erhodes@usc.edu
Subject: Questions About Former CB&Q Freighthouses South of Chicago Union
Station
Dear BRHS Members
Although I am not an Amtrak employee, I am a charter member of the Amtrak
Employees Model Railroad Club
that is based in the old ATSF Employees Locker Room Building in Amtrak's Los
Angeles Maintenance
Facility. We are in the process of constructing a multi-level HO scale
layout that will parallel the ATSF's and Amtrak's
Chicago-LA and Oklahoma City-Fort Worth routes. At the Chicago end of the
layout, we are
planning to model the Amtrak passenger and maintenance yards that are
located south of Chicago Union
Station and the buildings that are located over and around the yard areas.
We have not decided upon the precise year that we will be trying to
represent, but we are looking into anywhere from the beginning of Amtrak in
1971 through the last decade. While we have a photograph which shows that
the two CB&Q Freighthouses that were formerly located south of CUS were
still in existence in June of 1982, we also have another photo dated June of
1991 which shows only the Northern Trust Technical Center Building that is
currently located between Polk and Taylor. The freighthouse that was located
south of Polk is not present in this later photo, but it is impossible to
tell whether or not the freighthouse that was
located between Harrison and Polk was also demolished by that time. The new
building that was later
built over the tracks between Harrison and Polk was not yet built, so it
appears that there may have been
some period of time during the 1980s when there was no building that was
located east of Canal St. between Harrison and Polk.
Is there anyone in your organization who could assist us with information on
the dates when the two freighthouses
were demolished and the dates when the Northern Trust Technical Center and
the new building that is located
between Harrison and Polk were constructed?
We will be happy to send the BRHS photographs of our Chicago yards and
buildings once we have finished
them, and we will be happy to host any members of your group who might be
coming to Los Angeles on a tour
of the layout even though it is still under construction.
For the Los Angeles end of the layout, I have spent several years
researching the entire collection of
Los Angeles Union Station blueprints that are housed at the Getty Research
Institute, and I have already built an HO scale art board mock-up of Los
Angeles Union Station, which will eventually be replaced with a finished
model. (Unfortunately, the recent Walthers kit of LAUS is not designed to be
a full HO scale model, so we cannot use it.) Another Club member is
currently building the yard behind LAUS including the trainsheds.
We thank you in advance for any assistance that you can render to us in this
research effort. Please let me know if
you have any questions about our plans.
Sincerely yours,
Edward Rhodes
Professor of Astronomy
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
University of Southern California
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