I capture a satellite image of this location because the cars are now being removed since Railway & Industrial Services is closing. It will be interesting what this looks like a few years from now.
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This property, owned by Railway & Industrial Services, Inc., has been in operation for three generations and includes five buildings (office and industrial) totaling approximately 78,000 SF. The property’s in-place infrastructure provides immense additional value, including heavy power, piping for compressed air, oxygen, and propane for distribution throughout the site, as well as six miles of railroad track on site. Additionally, the sale includes three 40-ton Industrial Brownhoist locomotive rail cranes. The property’s valuable industrial amenities will enable an owner/user to immediately utilize this highly productive site. [HilcoGlobal]
Bill Molony shared the HilcoGlobal link.
Jack Morgan They have an original IC chocolate brown/orange (City of New Orleans) passenger car in there, I just noticed it a few months back. Anyone know what else they have, besides a whole line of EJ&E cabooses?
Bill Molony They had an Illinois Central tavern-lounge car on the property; that car should go to a museum somewhere.
Michael Q Quagliano Bill Molony there is a lot of stuff in there the J was holding on to for “salvage units” that could go to a museum.
John Sheskier I saw a eBay bid for an EJE caboose that was there. Starting at $10k.
Cameron Tester No wonder they've been on a scrapping spree lately.
John Sheskier We've been pulling cars out of there bit by bit. I wonder what's gonna happen with all the cars that aren't good to go on the rail.
Mike Rizzuto John Sheskier i would guess scrap on site?
Halsted Pazdzior John Sheskier do u go back there to pick up or do they bring them out to around east bridge?
John Sheskier Halsted Pazdzior they've got two tracks down there for us. One is for pulls, and the other for spots
From the comments, they have a former-Soo SW1200.
Jacob Diorio posted two photos with the comment: "MRIX 1204 lives out the rest of its days at Railway Mechanical Services in Crest Hill. This SW1200 was built as MNS 34 in May 1965 and still wears SOO candy apple red. 1/30/20"
Adam Elias Man I wish this place would’ve been droned before the scrapping spree began. I remember seeing a lot of cool stuff in here when I was younger.
Dillon Harrison At one time, There was almost an entire fleet of EJ&E 500 and 100 series cabooses along with I believe 2 Massive wrecker cranes... To my understand, IRM tried to work a deal to Atleast save a crane but the cost was too high and RIS wouldn’t budge.
Alexander Phillips Greed...when they shut down, they gave the workers no notice...they didn't even get to finish the day!
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| John commented on his post This was the only other interesting thing I found. Everything else was well cars. |
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