Interesting, but un-modeled industries

[steinjr]

How about this, not obvious what it is, no signs to help and as a bonus it's a fallen flag doing the switching

http://eddiesrailroad.blogspot.com/2008/...-spur.html

cheers
Ken

I looked up the street names given on the web page, and looked around on maps.live.com until I located the tracks and industy. Those tracks and those buildings is in Franklin Park, a suburb of Chicago. Just behind the building that the tracks go into is a short side street called Sandra Street, coming off Franklin Avenue.

Here is a bird's eye view of the area: http://tinyurl.com/bwdlg5

I then went a looking for local chambers of commerce, web pages etc, to see what industries were located in the area, and also looked up the businesses located on Sandra Street, Wolf Street, Franklin Avenue and Addison Avenue in Franklin Park, IL on maps.google.com.

I still haven't identified the building the tracks go into, but the building behind it is an electronics company Garvin Industries, 3700 Sandra Street, to the left of the tracks is Graph-Pak Corporation, 11250 Addison Ave.

Funny coincidence, btw - while doing family history research, I learned a few months ago that I at some time had relatives in this area - an older sister of my paternal grandfather emigrated from Norway in 1903 and settled in the Franklin Park/Schiller Park area. Looking at the map, I also realize this area is fairly close to Mount Prospect, where an older brother of my maternal grandmother lived for many years.

Guess this must be an area where quite a few Scandinvian immigrants from the early 1900s settled down.

Grin,
Stein