Rescan-CP Rail on Goose Island North Branch at Bliss Chicago Spring 1997

            This CP Rail job with the Soo GP9 was paused on Goose Island while working the AKZO Salt facility just out of sight about 100 yards away on the right. In the distance, the tall white building, is the Montgomery Ward HQ tower with its former catalog building along the river. 

The train sits on track that was laid in 1991 when the trackage on Goose Island was rationalized south of Division Street as part of a City of Chicago streets project. In a few years AKZO would close this plant. The Ogden Avenue overpass is no longer visible, having been taken down since 1991. The large building to the left of the train was once a rail-served warehouse belonging to the Wieboldt’s department store chain which itself went out of business decades ago.

This photo is a rescan of a 35mm slide using a Canon 9000F scanner. The original image was uploaded to Flickr from a scan using a more crude Wolverine slide scanner and I was not happy with how it turned out.

Taken on: March 29, 2022

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Camera: Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon CanoScan 9000F Mark II
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 16.0 (Macintosh)
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