MetraBNSF wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:25 pmAside from a small yard south of Clybourn does UP have any other freight facilities along the north and northwest?Quite a bit on the Northwest line, enough to justify 2-3 weekly manifests Proviso-Janesville plus a couple unit trains per week during grain hauling season.
Blommer Chocolates right next to Northwest Junction still receives cars off both the west line (hoppers) *and* the northwest line (presumably vegetable oil cars on lower level of the factory). On the Northwest Line, there are still freight customers in Arlington Heights (lumber), Rolling Meadows (multiple), Crystal Lake (multiple), Woodstock (multiple), plus grain elevators at Ridgefield, Chemung, Evansville.
I don't see UP abandoning all that traffic between Janesville and Des Plaines.
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