[Genma Saotome]

A partial list of industries along the east shore of the river, almost all of which have rail service provided by the MILW:

• A Finkl & Sons
  
• ADM
  
• American Can
  
• American Roller
  
• American Rolling Mills
  
• Birkenstein & Sons Junkyard
  
• Bowman Dairy
  
• Budlong Pickle
  
• Charles Johnson
  
• Chicago Forging
  
• Chicago Mill & Lumber
  
• Chicago Nipple
  
• Chicago Pottery
  
• Chicago Thrift
  
• Coal Yard
  
• Colortype Printing Plant #7
  
• Columbia Bedding
  
• Commercial Solvents
  
• Consumers Box
  
• Cortland Street Universal Freight
  
• Deep Rock
  
• Deppe Bakery
  
• Dry Co
  
• E L Hedstrom Coal
  
• Edward Hines Lumber
  
• F P Smith Wire
  
• Ferguson & Lange
  
• Firestone Tire
  
• Gutmann Tannery
  
• Haber Screw
  
• Haber Tool & Die
  
• Illinios-Malleable Iron
  
• Jefferson Ice
  
• John Bader Lumber
  
• Jones, Cortes, & Bailey Lumber
  
• Jones Machine
  
• JH Van Vlissen
  
• JP Seeburg
  
• Junk Yard
  
• Justrite Mfg
  
• Lee-Tex Rubber
  
• Ludlow Typographic
  
• Lumber Yard
  
• Luse Stevenson
  
• Medusa Portland Cement
  
• Miller Iron
  
• MILW Freight House #5
  
• MILW Freight House #7
  
• MILW Team Tracks
  
• Motorola Assembly
  
• Murphy-Miles Fuel Depot
  
• National Enameling
  
• National Tea
  
• North Shore Warehousing
  
• Peoples Gas Hawthorne Site
  
• Peoples Gas North Site
  
• Peter Hand Brewing
  
• Phillips Foods
  
• Plibrico Firebrick
  
• Plumbing Supplies
  
• S. B. Pennick Drugs
  
• Seng Company
  
• Sheffield Foundry
  
• Standard Oil
  
• Std Rolling Mills
  
• Sterling Nut & Bolt
  
• Stewart-Warner Corp.
  
• Stronghold Screw
  
• Tarrant Foundry
  
• Texaco
  
• Thomas Paper
  
• Tonk Mfg
  
• Union Liquor
  
• Wm Cooper & Nebhews
  
• Wachs-Greg
  
• Wards
  
• Waste Paper
  
• White Consolidated Paving
  
• Wilson Sporting Goods
  
• Wm D Gibson
  
• Yeomans

[ady]

Cool!

[conductorchris]

Ha! I spotted Bowman Dairy. I am deep into making milk cars for a variety of BLW/ZT sets. I suppose I'll have to add some Bowman Dairy cars.

[Genma Saotome]

 conductorchris, on 01 February 2015 - 04:13 PM, said:

Ha! I spotted Bowman Dairy. I am deep into making milk cars for a variety of BLW/ZT sets. I suppose I'll have to add some Bowman Dairy cars.

By the 20's, in Chicago, trucks dominated fresh milk shipments. My guess this plant was a local warehouse that held cold milk for home delivery. Why have rail service? Beats me. Maybe a previous occupant. Maybe to ship cullet. Seems doubtful it was to receive bottled milk from their main facility, which was 10-15 miles away.

One I liked is third from the bottom: Wilson. I dunno if they used this site as a warehouse or for manufacturing. I do know that the Sporting Goods Division was part of the Wilson Meat Packing company.