Watch this crossing be abandoned

[AndyWS]

This was the first crossing (after its junction with the WSOR ex-Milwaukee Road main line), and only signalized crossing on the four-block stub of the former Illinois Central Freeport (IL) to Madison, WI branch to survive after 1999. ICG first petitioned to abandon the line in 1980, and a series of short lines attempted to operate it until 1993, when it was embargoed south of Brunsell Lumber, the southernmost rail shipper on the line in Madison. Most of the line was torn out by the end of 1999, except for this short stub which was kept in as a headroom track for delivering coal to the UW-Madison power plant. The plant switched to natural gas in 2011, and stopped receiving rail service. The remaining tracks were torn out a few months later.

2007:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0700046 ... 328!8i1664

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0700046 ... 328!8i1664

2011:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0699611 ... 312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0699611 ... 312!8i6656

[Nimhster]

That's cool! I'm curious as to how you can view past street-view photos.

[AndyWS]

You can't, to my knowledge. They just never updated those particular frames, so as you maneuver around that street, the date of the images varies.

[CrossingLockdown]

This is just sad. I can't wait to see the crossings on the line the line that goes from the NS Chicago Line, to the Kraft factory.
Although there is not much to say.......

[TrainmanKight]

If you have the links to older street view most will still work, Its just not publicly published as the newer image has taken its place.