The hulls of the Bryn Mawr, the John Fritz and the John R. Roebling, all sunk to form a breakwater at the former Lakeview Generating Station. These vessels were classed as barges and towed around by other powered vessels. Before the plants closing in 2005, Great Lakes freighters would tie up at...
It's not the airspace concern, like you said it's outside the buttonville airspace and if it were a micro drone it wouldn't even be a concern. It was below the tops of rail cars whizzing past us. At least keep it high as to not cause a distraction.
Not sure if it was anyone here but someone was flying a drone over the yard last week or the week before. I would strongly advise against that as they're pretty quick to respond to such things over critical infrastructure.
Cp Rail used to service that yard before my time there, I heard of it referred to as the Empty Annex from some. A short search says it was closed in 2005. The two storage tracks are referred to as the 427 yard.