Figure 8 track...prototype?

[pike-62]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=41.648288,-87.689867&spn=0.013084,0.025063&t=h&z=15

Edit: Don’t know why the text i typed did not come thru when I posted this. I had typed in that here is a Google view of the area as it exsists now (or recently) Took a few min to find it by simply looking at the maps of the area.

Dan

[richhotrain]

blownout cylinder:

Observe the photo here…http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/images/0bwq03025.jpg

On the lower left hand quadrant …when you enlarge it…there is a track that is in the shape of a figure 8…anyone know what the purpose was for this? There is an exit coming off the bottom of the puzzle here into a trainyard…was it for testing cars?

Going a few directories up - to Cook, and then down to key, it seems like image bwq 03-025 is in the southern part of Chicago, row 8 from bottom of index image, about 3/5ths of the way from the left to the right:

http://ilaerialphotos.com/images/counties/Cook/key/Cook_S.jpg

If anyone can identify streets in the area, it should be possible to google adresses to try to figure out what this was.

Smile,
Stein

The site is located at 13500 S. Mozart in Blue Island, Illinois. The current operator is Acme Refining, a scrap dealer.

There is an active conversation about this site and the figure 8 on the Trains Magazine Forum:

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/177956.aspx?PageIndex=2

Rich

[blownout_cylinder]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=41.648288,-87.689867&spn=0.013084,0.025063&t=h&z=15

Rich: I mentioned that in an earlier posting that I got the thing from that thread…it is an interesting site from the looks of things…you can almost see the layout from even here…

[m_horton]

wasn’t that the prototype for an HO railroad that grows?..