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Satellite, the only thing left is the ramp that went down to the yard. That is now an access road to the bridge.)
Joliet was the terminus for the Rock Island commuter service, so they needed a yard to store the commuter trains overnight. When I commented on the ramp shown in the following photo, I learned that this was the lead to the coach yard. Metra now uses land on the east side of the diamonds for their coach yard. That land used to be part of the
Michigan Central railyard.
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Halsted Pazdzior posted
Bridge 407 looms in the background as a rail train led by CSX 8842 (SD40-2) heads east.
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During the day, the coaches would be parked downtown. They must not have run as many trains back then as they do now because it doesn't look very big.
When I studied a satellite image, I noticed that there was a ramp on the south side as well, but nature has "swallowed" it. That ramp descended the other direction down to an industrial lead along the river front.
Using street view on Des Plaines Street, one can see that the south ramp is below the mainline and that the north ramp is even further down.
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