Freelance 2013-3

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Here's a list of current industries BRC serves.

Not many for sure.


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Most of them (65.th and 66th St) are at Bedford Park. Have a look at the size of the yard ;-) BRC serves most direct customers only because they are directly at a yard located. I assume they do not serve those customers with dedicated jobs but the yard switcher make short trip over the street.

Chicago must be a perfect prototype for all of you modeling the transition period or earlier. I have a thin book from the MILW historic society about the MILW switching in Chicago. Goose island and the feeder have been a very interesting place. There is another excellent web side devoted to switching in Chicago http://chicagoswitching.com

This is an Athern shell on a Trainman drive built some years ago. Some details are flat wrong. The road number is a problem for me. The 49x series did not make it into the new century. The ex Conrail GP38-2 with road number 58x are used in this century. I do not know why BRC swapped their GP38-2 engines.