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Great Lakes Western RR -- Calumet City Industrial Area

The Calumet City area is pier-side on Lake Michigan include iron and steel manufacturing, oil refining, plastic mfg, chemical mfg., and a power substation.  A good deal of the trackage is for moving liquid metal cars around the blast furnace area and to transfer hot metal to the rolling mill.  These industries will generate and use tank cars, covered hoppers and ore, coal and coke cars.

The following industries are found in Calumet City:

Construction Status:  Calumet City is tracked, wired and used in early operating sessions with most buildings in place.

Rock retaining walls (plaster casts) have been installed below the mainline and earthwork (plaster) has been added around the oil refinery.  Also a road and ramp has been constructed from the oil refinery over the mainline and into the backdrop.

Dick Vogler is working on the Steel Mill and has many buildings installed as temporary foam-core mockups (very good ones).  The materials piles are partly installed and the inbound unloading hoppers are now being built.

Len Horn is working on the oil refinery and plastic pellet manufacturing area. He will be scenicing and completing this area.