Nostalgia & History > Treasures in a scrap yard

From Mike Metalis in Downers Grove , Illinois

I don't know if Mike Metalis is a TO member or not but he took some interesting pictures.

Slide is labeled as La Grange, Ill on 4-4-1976

MKT 67C F3A-FP7A-FP7A and look at the treasures in the background

Thanks for looking and See you down the tracks


Jay

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Someone with the name Metalis should belong in a scrap yard!

This must be Pielet Brothers next to the EMD plant. What a great loss those two places are to the Chicago area railfan world!

Thanks for sharing the photo with us.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/14 18:31 by Milwaukee.

Yes, that is definitely Pielet Bros. scrap yard in McCook, IL. The photo is taken from the Joliet Road (original Route 66) overpass, with the IHB/BRC underneath.

HotWater Wrote:
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> Yes, that is definitely Pielet Bros. scrap yard in
> McCook, IL. The photo is taken from the Joliet
> Road (original Route 66) overpass, with the
> IHB/BRC underneath.

Maybe you meant the IHB/B&OCT??

CSX_ENG Wrote:
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> HotWater Wrote:
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> > Yes, that is definitely Pielet Bros. scrap yard
> in
> > McCook, IL. The photo is taken from the Joliet
> > Road (original Route 66) overpass, with the
> > IHB/BRC underneath.
>
> Maybe you meant the IHB/B&OCT??


Yes, the B&OCT also. I remember all three railroads hauling trains right behind the EMD McCook plant. Although, only the IHB and B&OCT actually serviced the EMD facility.

Thanks for the addition.

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> Yes, the B&OCT also. I remember all three
> railroads hauling trains right behind the EMD
> McCook plant. Although, only the IHB and B&OCT
> actually serviced the EMD facility.
>
> Thanks for the addition.

At that point BOCT owned IHB dispatched, BRC only ran a transfer to Proviso on trackage rights.

What a rare image. I tried to get into there when I was a young railfan (1972). There was NO welcome, so I can see why this was taken from a bridge.
Bob

trainman630 Wrote:
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> <snip> BRC only ran a transfer to Proviso on trackage rights.

Yeah but they ran that transfer with Alcos!:^D

Its a bit amusing, or maybe sardonic, that it seems to take three units to pull three empty gondolas.

"No welcome"?

I was once "welcomed" by a security guard who saw me looking into the place with binoculars off the bridge. While I received the visual tour of his office, he was calling Mr. Pielet to explain that it wasn't a camera.

I kid you not.

Carl Shaver
Lombard, IL

I had no idea that passenger cars were scrapped at Pielet's. However I have seen photos (posted by Gerry Putz on TO?) showing CTA 4000 series cars here.

The best time to photograph Pielet was Sunday afternoons in the fall and winter when the Bears were playing . . . Somehow the security guards seemed preoccupied.

bumping this 2014 thread