Disco Dave Wrote:
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> FWiW Wrote:
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> > If you were at the Chicago and North & Western
> > Terminal a tad later than '81; you might have
> > caught my lemming like trips from/to Geneva
> (IL)
> > on the West Line.
> > The head house was razed/replaced in '84. The
> > replacement is definitely NOT commuter
> friendly,
> > despite a "food court". Believe the old Bush
> train
> > shed/suburban concourse remain pretty much
> intact.
> > See here ---> History for more.
>
> Yes, I was at the Chicago & Northwestern Terminal
> (I have several books which refer to Chicago &
> Northwestern Station, but Terminal seems like the
> more logical name) several times after 1981.
> After my year in Milwaukee, I attended the
> University of Wisconsin in Madison and made
> several trips to Chicago. One such trip was the
> 1983 weekend after Thanksgiving when I rode the
> return trip on a Santa Claus train excursion from
> Chicago to Janesville on an all C & NW-painted
> train including F-units.
>
> During the following year, I was in Chicago once
> to see the old terminal being demolished. After
> that moved East to begin my career, but still
> continued to make trips to Chicago.
>
> I'll defer to your opinion on the replacement not
> being commuter friendly. I don't know about the
> food court, but last year, during a trip to
> Chicago, I checked out the Metra Market on the
> street level below the tracks. I thought this
> place was awesome and offered a vastly superior
> experience to the Chicago Union Station food
> court.
"Terminal" came from Metra's web-site. The UP's dispatcher uses "talk to Terminal" as the final contact when eb trains enter Chgo-land. Yep, lots of places to eat/shop at Ogilvie Trans. Ctr. but, no places for commuters to sit if trains are delayed; tunnel flooding, hostage situations, crappy weather. True that the Terminal no longer handles thru pass trains, hence no need for immigrant facilities, but... for odd reasons, service falls down, and there is nothing for commuters to do except stand and wait for a train that may leave in a coupla hours.