I saw a great presentation last night about efforts to convert the old Illinois Terminal Railroad trestle through the Near North Side into a bike trail and garden. You can read about it here, and take a look at the massive, grand and sturdy piece of engineering that this trestle is. It’s over-engineered, and luckily so. They don’t build it like this anymore, do they?
07/14/2012, 03:53 pm
Actually, Chris, this bridge was for the old Illinois Terminal Railroad, not Illinois Central.
07/14/2012, 05:59 pm
Oops, thanks for the head’s up!