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The definition of long depends on money, I suspect.  The book "Chicago Union Station" by Edward M. DeRouin tells about that when the Alton was a ward of the B&O, road power would back the passenger trains out of Union down past the Brighton Park crossing, then pull them up the B&OCT tracks to their facilities at Lincoln St /Robey St.  After servicing and restocking, they would take them back the same way.  (Robey is along side the St. Charles Air Line, a stone's throw from Union.  Go figure.) The diagram in the book shows a connector track only in the northwest quadrant, but to reverse the train and back it into Union, they would have to use a connector in the southwest quadrant.  The Google aerial view shows that there were, at one time, connector tracks in both quadrants, as do maps of that time period and earlier. The book further states that in 1942, Brighton Park resumed those activities.  Diesel maintenance, however was done down south, E's at St.Louis and F's at Venice Yard. As a measure of long, to turn its passenger trains, the Milwaukee used the wye at Pacific Junction, 5.4 miles from Union and west of their yard facilities near N. Sacramento Blvd.  Art
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