Re: Chicago's "Skokie Swift"
Author: Tom Farence
Date: 08-19-2008 - 03:50
BUZZZZZ....wrong again...CNS&M closed in the winter of 63. It was January or February,it was 28 below zero,I was shooting 8mm movie film at a tower south of Milwaukee where the CNW freight line crossed the CNSM...think it was called Randall Rd..can't remember for sure.
Spent the eveningin St Lukes Hospital for frost bite and exposure. HEY...I was 15 years old and "SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER"asmy folks reminded me more then once.
Its all just amemory now...and that is fadeing....what really sucks is I don't remember wherethe movie is!!