Final Days of Union Pacific's Chicago Tribune Job

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On March 29th, 2024, I followed Union Pacific's YPR60B job as it served the Chicago Tribune's Freedom Center printing plant. Back in 2022, it was announced that the Freedom Center would be demolished to make way for a new casino. The Tribune would move its printing to a location in Schaumburg and vacate the Freedom Center by July 2024. Employee layoffs began in February and eventually the last car was pulled sometime in late May when the plant closed its doors.
A few days before this video was shot, it was announced that the one other customer on the line, Blommer Chocolate, would be promptly closing its doors as well. It too stopped receiving cars. The final car from Blommer arrived at Proviso on May 15th, 2024.
Today the old former C&NW branch, which once ran out to Navy Pier, is essentially abandoned. With no customers on the line, there's no need for any trains to operate. Redevelopment plans for both Tribune and Blommer make it unlikely that there will be a need for rail service, but we'll have to see what the future holds!
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@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

Hard to believe they only pulled ONE car out of the plant!!! We used to spot 18 cars a day! One 9 car spot on day shift and another 9 car spot on the afternoon shift!

@25mfd Ай бұрын

so much has changed... i hired on with CNW back in 1993 out of butler... worked in janesville for a bit... GM plant long since gone, used to get two switches /day... the JATCO auto ramp was overflowing with loaded racks day and night back in the 90s... now it's all gone

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

@@25mfd Did you know Ronnie Gluff, the hogger on the Janesville train out of Proviso?

@25mfd Ай бұрын

@@uhlijohn didn't know him personally but yes i did know of him... saw him a lot... he was a fixture on that "A" train

@25mfd Ай бұрын

@@uhlijohn i'd see him at butler to because he would work the pool whenever they would take the A train off as a regular assignment and put it back in the pool... they did that often with that A train, flip flopping between regular assignment and back in the pool

@GreenRC24 Ай бұрын

What commodity was delivered to that plant by rail?

@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan Ай бұрын

Very cool Chicago Northwestern caboose

@IGuessIDoThings Ай бұрын

The fact that the Chicago Tribune building would be torn down to build a casino is such a cartoon villain thing to happen

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

Ironic that the Tribune called it the "Freedom Plant" isn't it? Destroyed our freedoms and now the Freedom Plant is being destroyed by those nihilists. And the modern Tribune had a big hand in everything. Col. McCormick is spinning in his grave seeing what his paper has become: just another Marxist rag rooting for war and destruction.

@JustPlainMike71 19 күн бұрын

22 year Tribune employee here. As sad as it is to see Freedom Center go away, it was time for it to happen, casino or not. The circulation declines in the last few decades means we were only utilizing a fraction of that building. And while the Daily Herald plant is a bit smaller than we would have wanted, it's working fairly well. My biggest complaint about the move is the longer commute

@uhlijohn 19 күн бұрын

@@JustPlainMike71 Hey Mike, was the Sun-Times being printed at the Freedom Plant by chance? I heard Sun-Times closed their plant on near south side some years ago and began printing it at the Freedom Plant.

@JustPlainMike71 19 күн бұрын

@@uhlijohn Yes, we've printed the Sun-Times since late 2010 or early 2011, can't remember the exact date. It's still printed by us at the Schaumburg plant.

@uhlijohn 19 күн бұрын

@@JustPlainMike71 Thanks Mike. I was the engineer on YNO68 that spotted the newsprint cars inside the plant. Hard to believe. Trib used to take 18 cars per day in its heyday.

@Heroduothecomedian Ай бұрын

It's a sad day when you see a rail line whether it's small or big, close down

@bettym7346 Ай бұрын

And newspapers.

@robertszallavarysullivan9570 Ай бұрын

America as a whole, has 'Shut down.' What does it manicure anymore? Not much of anything of value that involves a significant number of people.

@robertszallavarysullivan9570 Ай бұрын

'Manufacture,' typo.

@chrisstromberg6527 Ай бұрын

Yep! I bet will see more trucks plugging up the highways though, sad!

@7thsonofa7thson80 Ай бұрын

Yes, I still get a printed paper 7 days a week. Its not a big one like the tribune.

@TheBigdog868 Ай бұрын

I was in the printing industry until 2007. You could say I saw the writing on the wall, so to speak. Saddened to see the final end of an era. Even the Chicago Tribune fell 😢

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Just the consequences of the internet at work!

@paulbergen9114 Ай бұрын

Excellent coverage of this industrial remnant. Metra zips on by where not that many years ago you'd see at least 25 plus box cars waiting to go down there. Excellent drone view of the entire complex and part of that featured in a background scene in Chicago PD. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printing plant closed down about a year ago and now with the demolition of Froedert Malt the bustling Menomonee Belt is now a rusty streak. All of the dozen papers they still print are done in Peoria and if the Brewers game goes past 6:00 p.m. you'll read about it in the day after paper

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you! Thanks for the history!

@johnalder6028 Ай бұрын

Thanx for added info , good to know !

@MawaukeeWiscansin Ай бұрын

Do you know where there is historical or current content on the Menomonee belt? I live in the area and have always been fascinated with it, almost to the extent of making a shelf layout about it; however, content is scarce… I would appreciate any insight.

@paulbergen9114 Ай бұрын

@@MawaukeeWiscansin I know that some photos have been published in older Milwaukee Road Historical Assn Publications but I don't remember a story about it nor do I remember the Chicago and Northwestern group doing one. On the internet there is some good information at the Froedtert malt website regarding the history and construction of the plants plus even some photos of the building under construction

@JohnR.1968 Ай бұрын

Used to pull trailers of scrap paper out of there, glad I left b4 I lost the job. The building was pretty cool inside, old school.

@MartyBecker Ай бұрын

The new location, 1000 Albion Avenue, in Schaumburg, has rail access from the Milwaukee District-West line.

@JustPlainMike71 19 күн бұрын

I've already seen one switching job here. But a lot comes in on truck too.

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

Ironic that the ex-CNW caboose says "pulling together" when now it's only used for pushing.

@WillyGoat54 Ай бұрын

I remember seeing so many hi-cube and standard 50ft boxcars in those yards as a kid. So sad that it's all gone now.

@J3scribe Ай бұрын

Well that's a sad state of affairs. In its heyday, there was a massive coach yard, engine service facility for steam locomotives and a roundhouse packed between the North Branch and both sides of Chicago Ave. And soon the very last vestiges will be a distant memory.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Tribune and Blommer were really the final holdout for this old remnant of the CNW. Viewing an old map of the area shows how much has gone away over the years. I’m pretty sure this was once the CNW’s mainline into downtown before OTC was built!

@J3scribe Ай бұрын

@@SamLovesTrains Correct, the line led to Wells Street station prior to the CNW passenger terminal and elevated lines into it were built.

@planebois Ай бұрын

As someone who has filmed this job and researched it a ton and covered it a lot in my old content, its sad to see it go. Great video though, and thank you for covering this job!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you! I wish I was able to see it more, but I’m glad I got to document it once!

@fhowland Ай бұрын

Fantastic footage! Love the drone shots. Such a sad thing to see this going out of operation, but thank you for documenting history.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad to have documented it!

@unpasaro Ай бұрын

Excellent filming, thanks for sharing this. How sad that that branch is going to be abandoned.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you! It’s sadly looking like it’ll be that way.

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

UP will rail bank it.

@seangall123 Ай бұрын

RR and print media fan from Boston here, this is excellent, so well done!

@hiawathabray885 25 күн бұрын

I'm a reporter at the Boston Globe and a native of Chicago. The Globe used to print in the same building as the newsroom, in a big complex on Morrissey Blvd. right next to I-93. We had our own rail spur that could handle up to eight cars at a time. Now we work out of a downtown office building, and the much reduced print edition is printed out of town. I used to go downstairs to watch them unload the rolls of newsprint and load them onto the presses. Good times.

@seangall123 25 күн бұрын

@@hiawathabray885 Oh I know who you are, you need no introduction! Big fan of your column for years, fellow tech. Heard you on WBZ-AM, Steve Leveille's show too, wayback! Happy 4th my friend!

@markradaba Ай бұрын

CNW livery! Love the caboose!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Me too! That was a treat.

@Nurvington Ай бұрын

Many thanks for filming this! Sad to see this close for good.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed as sad as it is!

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

Wish I had a nickel for every car I spotted or pulled out of the Tribune! I was the hogger on YNO68 for a couple of years and retired on that job in 2013. Sad to see it go. One industry after another closed down. Now only Alpha Baking is left. North Ave. yard used to be a hopping place with 3 shifts. At its peak I think North Ave. had about 4 daylight jobs, 2 afternoon jobs, and one night job that mainly serviced Proctor & Gamble plant where Home Depot now located. In addition there was a switch run, PRNOA, that brought cars to North Ave. from Proviso. The good old days. Here is a link to a video of me shoving cars into the Tribune plant: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9yTY9l837O1pHU.htmlsi=_kxytCfjcO5s-6KH

@anthonyc1883 Ай бұрын

Wow, that's a heck of a cut of cars compared to Sam's video. So sad what has been lost.

@sanddabz5635 Ай бұрын

Very cool. You've got a personal connection to all this.....a lot of history! Those were the days!

@daniellucas6573 Ай бұрын

Great coverage, man! Rather somber at best as times are certainly changing! Just like here in NYC, a lot of people are leaving the city! A lot of manufacturing jobs are leaving in droves! Even our transit 🚇 system is beginning to feel the effects of a city in decline!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

I think North Ave. is pretty much empty these days. Chicago Terminal’s Goose Island operation shut down some years back and now this. I really wish I could’ve seen the Goose Island stuff, but I wasn’t as big into switching/local operations as I am now.

@user-lq4mo8dw1p Ай бұрын

That's what happens when industry is taxed to oblivion....uncle JB hogg the governor taxes everything that moves a inch....so glad to be out of that democrat state....hired with CC back in 1994, used to work Broadview switcher....used to die in the shift. Now CN pulls 8 cars from the city all the way up to the J.....before I moved it was 3 to 4 cars.... Hershey in St Charles moved to Missouri....almost all the industry I spotted moved to Missouri or a southern state....

@APOTwixx Ай бұрын

Thank you for recording and sharing.

@robecon49 Ай бұрын

As a side bar to this story, Ballys may delay or not even build the planned casino on this property, as the temporary casino located at the former Medinah Temple downtown is not performing financially as hoped.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

I just read about that. A shame they made the tribune close and move out before confirming whether or not the casino would even be worth it.

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

Isn't it ironic that instead of encouraging industry to stay in the city they want them to move and replace them with casinos! Demoncrats! F***ing idiots! Any state, county, or city run by Demoncrats turns into a hell hole. But it is NOT incompetence as we would think. It is a deliberate plan. It is called Cloward & Piven....destroy everything so they can build a Marxist utopia.

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

Tribune was probably happy to unload the property. Sht's tanking downtown now.

@arthurgerber 28 күн бұрын

@@SamLovesTrains The Chicago Tribune did not "close." Parent Alden purchased the Daily Herald printing press in Schaumburg to continue print production of the Tribune, and under contract, the Sun-Times, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. The Chicago Tribune had to lease the Freedom Center back from Tribune Media after the split up following the disasterous Sam Zell acquisition of the Tribune Company which gave the Tribune Tower and Freedom Center to Tribune Media.

@driftspecs13 16 күн бұрын

They just secured the funding. It's happening.

@JustATeenageRailfan Ай бұрын

Sad loved seeing these jobs I hope the new ones will still need rails

@cjbeyer8340 Ай бұрын

Oh how things have changed!! Love the UP!!

@cagorrie Ай бұрын

Great catch, thanks for the great coverage

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

@shawnpowell5876 Ай бұрын

Nice catch of some great switching opps. The Short Line Railroads are my favorite especially when it comes to serving their customers. Thanks again for sharing this video with us. Cheers from Laurel, Delaware USA.

@JohnR.1968 Ай бұрын

They closed the chocolate company also, Blomberg, man it smelled great around there.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Yep. They announced their closure just a few days before I shot this video. Very sad.

@arthurgerber 28 күн бұрын

Blommer

@southsidediy 16 күн бұрын

Inner Chicago industrial industry spur jobs like this have slowly been dropping like flies. I remember one Tuesday morning in 2010, I went to see the CIRY Lumber District job run at like 7am. Then I went to go see if the Chicago Terminal Goose Island Job was running. On my way, I caught this job switching the Tribune at Grand Avenue. Then I got to North Avenue Yard, and sure enough, they were warming up the Chicago Terminal Switcher to run to Goose Island. Al,l of these operations are shadows of their former selves, and they were 15 years ago too.

@oglemansviews675 Ай бұрын

Excellent video footage. Well done. Thanks for sharing.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad I could provide footage of this move!

@stevesummers2462 25 күн бұрын

Why am I not surprised to see the end of rail traffic anywhere in Chicago? Along the rail shown the C&NW ran across a bridge less than 1/2 mile away and served everything from the Merchandise Mart to Navy Pier, the Milwaukee Road served everything on Goos Island to the west to just north of Wrigley Field on the east, and the New York Central served the Fulton Market/ West Loop. All of those fallen flags worked off of the rail area shown. GREAT JOB CHICAGO getting rid of all that industry!

@TommyJohnson-ms8pb 25 күн бұрын

Back in 1976 the Bicentennial train ran down those tracks to Navy Pier when it was on display.

@anthonyc1883 Ай бұрын

Great coverage, man. Thanks.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

@johnalder6028 Ай бұрын

Good catch ! Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida.

@thomasklimchuk441 Ай бұрын

Some the Chicago Tribune newspapers were shipped from Thorold Ont via CNR via Sarnia

@gilbertcastaneda8208 Ай бұрын

Great video Sam. Thanks.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@zenontrainstrucks9433 Ай бұрын

Great video!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@albertcarello619 19 күн бұрын

I wonder if this abandoned trackage could have been converted to a Light Rail Line in Streeterville and run along the Lakefront to serve McCormick Place, The Art Institute, the Museum Of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium and other Lakefront Points!?

@MarcelosalivaTRENESArg Ай бұрын

Excellent video my friends awesome like 👍🏻

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@tfs4499 Ай бұрын

Great catch!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Scaletrains Ай бұрын

Fantastic job!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@spaceghost8995 16 күн бұрын

Blommer Chocolate Co. in Chicago just closed. (W. Kinzie & N. Des Plaines)They did use rail access to bring in sugar and vegetable oils and such. It's gone.

@user-bb3yv8dy7q Ай бұрын

The CNW Caboose is cool.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Agreed.

@Heritage_railfan Ай бұрын

Damn I would see a YBR60 in my backyard (I think) he would run LHF form Waukegan to Chicago but I have not seen him lately 😢

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

YPR60 will still run, but just not to this part of the city.

@Heritage_railfan Ай бұрын

@@SamLovesTrains oh ok 😅 i hope he still does the Chicago-Waukegan job!

@baseballislife7497 Ай бұрын

It’s all about intermodal. That’s the bread and butter for UP.

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

Well, it's also about this being a newspaper printing plant. People don't buy printed newspapers any more -- they read online.

@user-lq4mo8dw1p Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 I'm a retired train conductor...now a OP trucker.....all of us truckers by newspapers....except for the newest generation

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

Intermodal is how railroads got us to subsidize their long haul business by dumping the costs of local switching on to the roads that we pay for. The Chicago area has hundreds of truck only warehouses way the fck far from intermodal yards, in places like Morris. Also grail elevators filling containers instead of covered hoppers.

@KiloOne Ай бұрын

I see that consist all the time running up and down to Alpha Baking on what otherwise would be abandoned track. I’ve been trying to figure out the history behind those tracks and if anyone else still uses them. So odd not seeing it on the NW side. Many thanks for this upload

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

That is/was the Cragin subdivision. Used to be double track, now it is single track. It ran from 40th St. yard (long gone) up to the Harvard sub. at Mayfair. North of that I believe it was the Skokie sub. and there used to be trains coming down from Wisconsin (Butler yard, I believe) years ago headed for the Belt's Clearing Yard. I think the alpha was BUBRA or B from Butler or something like that. It was dark territory controlled by track warrants. Terminal crews would pick up the train at Mayfair, release the track warrant when hind end cleared and run down to Augusta Blvd. just north of 40th St. to connect with the Belt. All hand-throws controlled by Belt dispatcher. Cragin sub. used to cross the Milwaukee at Cragin interlocking but the Cragin now dead-ends just a wee bit north of Cragin interlocking. Not sure what's south of that but I do recall years ago CNW used to store empty TTX empty flats or 5-packs on a couple of long tracks when Wood St. (Global 1) was stuffed and had no room for any more cars.

@KiloOne Ай бұрын

That helps a ton, thank you so much

@kingofthemonsters3712 Ай бұрын

The city of Chicago is really proving to be a problem for them, shutting down that factory, and now the employees there are getting laid off work, basically, THEY TOOK THEIR JOBS!

@dogyerf21 Ай бұрын

They took their jerbs!!

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

Tell that to all the people who get their news online instead of buying a printed newspaper. I mean, when did you last buy a printed newspaper?

@user-lq4mo8dw1p Ай бұрын

@@beeble2003 today, just bought one at the roadranger truck stop....before that 2 days ago in Barstow California

@glenhietala2529 Ай бұрын

The printing plant used to do about 3,000,000 copies of the Tribune a day. Now the total print run is about 275,000 because most people don't read hard copy newspapers. But tell us again how it's Chicago's fault that the plant is closing.

@JustPlainMike71 19 күн бұрын

@@glenhietala2529I think 275K is a big stretch even with all the commercial printing the Tribune does

@lucmarchand617 Ай бұрын

Yes,they lots newsprint from canada now lots mills are close or made papers.sad but this was going on now today due computer.😮

@BossSpringsteen69 8 күн бұрын

Newsprint came from Canada probably at least 15-20 years ago. I was working one of the hump jobs and, we would get about 15 to 20 cars of CN boxcars of paper for the Tribune. I've seen my share of paper rolls on fire, shifted loads, and, loads that fell out of the car over the years.

@cameronlewis1218 16 күн бұрын

Tragically, print newspapers are DOOMED. I’m zany old fashioned and don’t get a paper…

@CSXfan618 29 күн бұрын

The only other job serving a newspaper plant is on Norfolk Southern's Washington District. NS serves The Washington Post plant in Springfield, VA and nearby Robinson Terminal.

@JustPlainMike71 19 күн бұрын

The Tribune's new plant in Schaumburg has a rail dock handled by CPKC

@centraliowarailproductions2810 Ай бұрын

Nice video!

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@centraliowarailproductions2810 Ай бұрын

@@SamLovesTrains I did. Speaking of locals, UP has a SP painted GP60 leading the local out of Marshalltown and it’s leading out of town on a former section of M&STL mainline.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

@@centraliowarailproductions2810 I’ve seen some photos of that one on Instagram lately. There’s also a Cotton Belt painted GP60 on locals out of Butler, Wisconsin. I tried catching it the other day, but didn’t get lucky.

@centraliowarailproductions2810 Ай бұрын

@@SamLovesTrains ok. Interesting, I caught the SP GP60 on that local last week and chased it briefly.

@-SkyCat- Ай бұрын

Sucks but i guess a casino is what Chicago needs?? the new location has Rail to it as well

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

I now hear that the casino might not end up being built anymore with how their other location has been preforming.

@CSXfan618 29 күн бұрын

This former C&NW branch would be abandoned soon. Farewell to this Union Pacific Job!

@BossSpringsteen69 8 күн бұрын

It's not done yet. They still spot Alpha, Aetna for certain, and, possibly on occasion do coach yard and Depot work. I wouldn't be surprised if this job was abolished and consolidated into the coach yard jobs.

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

Looks like this footage was shot in the early spring by looks of the leaves on the trees.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

This was shot on March 29th

@davidpoor8638 16 күн бұрын

So I have to ask...why the buggy? Spacer car?

@UPRAILFANOFSOUTHERNILLINOIS Ай бұрын

I’d say Union Pacific will load Trash in the Train for the new Casino or Railcar Storage

@J50Fan20 Ай бұрын

Realy sad. What's gonna happen to the ROW?

@fjkelley4774 Ай бұрын

A casino. Yeah. When I think of casinos I don't think of Vegas or Monte Carlo or even Atlantic City. I think of the Windy City. Is this the last stage of get rick quick schemes or some shoddy waste of money to enrich someone who needs it as much as my cat does?

@DouggieFresh50 Ай бұрын

Just like what happened in draper Utah now half of the Utah Draper line that challenger went on is now Ambandond now this

@armandoperez7967 Ай бұрын

Are they going to be getting everything by truck now?

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

As stated in the description, both customers are closing. The newspaper print works is moving to a new location, which other commenters have said is rail-served.

@chrisstromberg6527 Ай бұрын

Sure looks that way with all the trucks clogging up 294

@JustPlainMike71 19 күн бұрын

Rolls come in both by train and truck at the new location in Schaumburg

@BronsonWally126 Ай бұрын

Interesting the last car was a CP Canadian boxcar

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

This likely wasn’t the very last run, but one of the last handful of runs.

@uhlijohn Ай бұрын

Most of the cars we spotted at the Tribune were Canadian cars. That's because that is where most of the newsprint originated from: Canada.

@Guaga_ Ай бұрын

very funny how Freedom center is being replaced by a casino

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

That development has all but tanked already.

@JohnR.1968 Ай бұрын

Blommer chocolate

@joshthetrainfan Ай бұрын

That CNW caboose has had journal wheels swapped with roller bearing wheels…

@user-lq4mo8dw1p Ай бұрын

I believe that class had roller bearings....it was the international class from 67 that had that

@joshthetrainfan Ай бұрын

@@user-lq4mo8dw1p no those are journal trucks…the way they’re shaped says it all-

@user-lq4mo8dw1p Ай бұрын

@@joshthetrainfan don't know buddy....my dad worked at CNW.....and I worked at CC....I have no interest in American railways....

@joshthetrainfan Ай бұрын

@@user-lq4mo8dw1p fair enough

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

Definitely can't leave UP hands. Journal boxes are non interchange regardless of being converted to rollers. Probably aged out if it is considered a freight car too.

@craigzuidema 15 күн бұрын

Why are they using a caboose in 2024?

@SamLovesTrains 15 күн бұрын

@@craigzuidema The conductor rides in it when they shove from Deval (Des Plaines) down to Alpha Baking near Mayfair. This industry is west of the city and still served today.

@RailfanEngineer Ай бұрын

mmm yes, destroying a factory to make way for a casino and giving more of the population a gambling addiction is totally what this economy needs, even if the location move is a good idea i still dislike it

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

It has been said Bally's does not even have the financial capital and may never build the casino.

@bettym7346 Ай бұрын

CNW caboose

@northlandg5207 Ай бұрын

Good video of a sad happening! I used to watch this job when it ran and when I worked near there. .....unreal to see another Casino coming to steal money with

@paulbergen9114 Ай бұрын

Its surreal how especially now with inflation people have any money left to piss away. I wasn't aware of this casino but I understand there's one coming to Rockford and I guess the one in Kenosha got approval and here in Milwaukee we get the ads for this new one in Waukegan they opened a new one recently in Beloit and just finished remodeling a good part of the one in Milwaukee and added a sports book.

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thanks! That’s just the world we live in today.

@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye 27 күн бұрын

Jeez, even the friggin caboose has graffiti on it……

@GEVOlutionCPKC Ай бұрын

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@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate it!

@csxns Ай бұрын

So did 18 wheelers take over the business around here trucks haul about everything.

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

No, the internet took over the business. This is a newspaper printing facility. Nobody buys printed newspapers any more.

@garysprandel1817 Ай бұрын

A lot of the industry that used rail is gone. Trib and Blommer Chocolate were the last holdouts. Ever since Daley Jr Chicago has decided that retail and high end condos were a better use than industry and now the last two are out of the way.

@MilwaukeeF40C Ай бұрын

Well now retail and offices are going away, not much reason for hedonistic dbags to stay in the city anymore.

@Amigafur Ай бұрын

Don't think of it as the end of an era. Think of it as a mission completed.

@landonbenford8369 16 күн бұрын

Computers and the 'net were supposed to make our lives easier. Instead it's destroying jobs and making us who Have jobs work 10 times faster.😢😢

@robertszallavarysullivan9570 Ай бұрын

As far a railroading being 'fun' for train crews, the disappearance of the caboose was the beginning of the end........ Implementation of new technologies throughout the years such as the loss experienced in the size of train crews arguably was to be expected, and made railroading safer. Yet, now it can be argued that for a variety of reasons, railroading 'Has lost that luvin' feeling' for train crew members, as it's not as safe as it was, or could be, since crew sizes have dwindled to two and in some cases, one man crews. Give me a break. A one man crew is in no way safe. And it certainly doesn't involve fun........

@SamLovesTrains Ай бұрын

Yeah… I have friends who work for the railroad that say it’s nothing like it used to be. Even in the past 5 years it’s changed so much.

@TomStarcevich-fb3qo Ай бұрын

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@suppylarue220 Ай бұрын

that caboose and the hopper are filthy with graffiti. need to start painting all equipment with protective anti graffiti coatings. easy to do, cheap, and done only once. first rain will wash away any markings.

@shortliner68 Ай бұрын

I always wondered if there was some type of coating that could be applied which wouldn't allow any added spray on paint to stick.

@bettym7346 Ай бұрын

@@shortliner68 There is. Used to protect scenic rock formations in the high desert of So Cal. It works great. Called "elephant snot" around here. Not cheap, but one coat ends the problems. To my mind, grafitti=decay=more grafitti=more decay. People may call them graffiti artists, but they are vandals! I hate seeing them all over the trains!

@shortliner68 Ай бұрын

@@bettym7346 I sometimes wonder what rail freight customers think when they have products to ship and completely defaced rail cars are spotted on their siding. I wouldn't be surprised if they think, "You expect me to ship my valuable products in that!?" You don't see truck trailers all vandalized with paint while you're driving down a highway.

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

@@shortliner68 Customers obviously have no significant problem with it, or the railroads would do something about it.

@beeble2003 Ай бұрын

"need to start painting all equipment with protective anti graffiti coatings" Why do they _need_ that? If they _needed_ to do that, they'd already be doing it. The fact that they're not doing it strongly implies that it's not needed.