PAT treatment of "PRC"

[brathke at juno.com]

Earlier today I drove on Green Bay Road through Highland Park and Lake
Forest, Illinois and noted that  the old Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee
interurban right-of-way still exists, even though the line was abanoned
in 1963.  You can still see station platform pilings and numerous bridges
over the highway.  Some of these bridges now carry a bike trail that's
been built on the old interurban line, and several of the concrete
bridges still have the raised words, "North Shore
Line...Chicago...Milwaukee".  Just think, if PAT had been in charge,
those bridges in 1964 would have had their wording reduced to "North
Shore" - period.

And, today I also read that the proposal to extend the Skokie Swift line
north of the Dempster St. terminal is still active.  Skokie Swift is the
caternary powered segment of the CNS&M interurban line that CTA operates
from Howard St. to Dempster St.  The trolley right of way north of
Dempster St. still exists, and runs parallel to the C&NW (now UP)
railroad line to Lake Forest, and probably also much of the way to
Kenosha and Milwaukee.

Bob 10/4

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