Hope you enjoyed this visit to the Lakewood Branch!
Just across Diversey to the north, another 2-3 blocks of abandoned street trackage is still visible on Lakewood, but the Diversey crossing has been paved over and the warning signals removed. Soon, those unused northernmost tracks will be paved over as well. We can only hope that the surviving four-block portion of the Lakewood branch shown here will remain in operation for a little longer for us to enjoy before it lives only in Chicago railfans' memories.
Related Links of Interest:
The Kingsbury Branch Homepage
Bill Denton's beautifully done N scale layout depicts the Kingsbury Street segment of the same urban switching line as the Lakewood trackage, running on the near North Side of Chicago between Chicago Avenue and Grand Avenue.
I was fortunate enough to have a chance to see and photograph Bill's layout in person. To take a brief tour, click here
The Milwaukee Railroad Historical Association
Both the Lakewood and Kingsbury branches were operated by the Milwaukee Road.
The street map of the Lakewood line on the main page was generated from their very useful site.
If you have any comments on this site,
please send me an email!
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