Re: [CBQ] Industry and Warehouse Questions

["Jack Schroeder" <jack@highlandwebworks.com>]

    If you wish to see the information that Bill is talking about go to
    the 'Q' Rail Network and section the station you are curious about. 
    This is in the Members Only space on the BRHS web site. Sorry
    non-members. 
    For Chicago
http://www.burlingtonroute.org/members_only/secured/network/network_system/system_programs/station_details.php?FSAC=00000
    For Chicago there are 328 industries listed and their address is
    included for most. Thank Bill for his hard work on this. (I had the
    easy part)
    
    Initially I was not sure how to add all of the information I got
    from Bill. I figure I would need to start a new feature.. (That is
    what Bill was referring to. But I didn't use a new feature, even
    thought there is a tile for it.) Then I figure out how to get it
    into the station details which is what you see below.  Much nicer
    this way. 
    
    The 'Q' Rail Network feature has tons of information and more
    (alignment charts, etc.) is coming. I am still adding the Goggle map
    links and the county names to many locations. Any volunteers?

    To save space I have cut out 310 entries.

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Jack Schroeder
817 485-1922
jack@highlandwebworks.com

On 3/9/2021 8:36 AM, William Hirt wrote:

Scott and Nancy,

I have already provided Jack with this industry information in the format he wanted for the Members Only section of the BRHS web site. I have provided him with information on more locations than Chicago. Watch the Members Only section of the web site as he will be posting it there.

I've attached the Chicago tariff file that I have sent Jack. The Chicago tariff is a wonderful reference as it provides street addresses of customers. Only a minority of shipper's guides did.

For those interested, Ted Schnepf of Rails Unlimited sells reprints of the Chicago Shippers Guide. He has both 1956 and 1967.

Bill Hirt

On 3/8/2021 9:40 PM, Scott Stearns 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

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