Scott and Nancy,
1)My first bit of advise is to get a copy the Chicago Switching district industries book by the district bureau. Reproduction copies can be found. It’s a spiral bound book which lists names, serving carriers(often multiple carriers),and by address. If you know much about Chicago street names and neighborhoods you then can figure out where they were.
I just thought of a great trade for the wonderful favor you just did for me. Watch your mailbox around mid April and you will receive a Q marked up/highlighted copy of the Chicago Switching District Industries. I’d send it sooner but let’s just say it’s not where I am for a while.
2)you may be taking a bit more operators license than you realize. The jobs you describe were based at Western Ave.
3) there was a whole lot more than warehouses. Chicago was the mfg. of the nation for many decades.
4) You could have a couple jobs go off layout to the lumber district, again they were based out of Western Ave. Then there were the jobs that switched Q Frt. Houses 1,2,5,6,7,10,11.(house 8,9 were switched by Cicero jobs). All this will be covered in a Bulletin that’s under construction and much more.
5) don’t forget all those team tracks I mentioned in our recent visit.
6) the scrap operation adjacent to EMD was Pielet Brothers. There were a few different Pielet Bros locations( south side of Chicago, Aurora,National Stock yard near East Louis) but they were different related branches of the family.
Leo
On Mar 8, 2021, at 10:40 PM, Scott Stearns <scott_b_stearns@hotmail.com> wrote:
Nancy and I are in the process of modelling a warehouse district switch job on our model railroad. This area will have a job that runs out of Cicero Yard and go east towards Union Station. Between Cicero and CUS, there were numerous warehouses. We'd like
to be as accurate as possible (within reason) in naming these warehouses. The era is the early 1960s. Any help with names of the warehouses and what they handled would be greatly appreciated.
On a similar but different note -- we fully understand that the La Grange EMD plant was not on the "Q". However, our layout is going to fudge that a bit. We're of the understanding that there was also a business in the area that took in old locomotives to
be scrapped. Does anyone know the name of that business?
Thanks to all for your help.
Scott & Nancy Stearns
Zumbrota, MN