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This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad: CRI&P: 1866 Chicago and Alton Railroad: Alton 1863–1931 1862–1863 Chicago and North Western Railway: NIRC, UP 1911–1995 1980–1981 1871–187X 187X–1911 1859–1890 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: PRR 1861–1869 1858–1861 St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad: Chicago & Alton 1857–1862
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1853 1856 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Fox River Valley Railroad: CNW: 1852 1858 Elgin and State Line Railroad: Franklin and Waverly Railway: CB&Q: 1908 1917 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Fredonia and Reeds Railroad: IC: 1914 1946 Illinois Central Railroad: Freeport, Dodgeville ...
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line , so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic.
Chicago "L" yards (11 P) Pages in category "Rail yards in Illinois" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Englewood station (Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad) Englewood Union Station; F. Forest Park station (CTA Lake Street Elevated) G. Grand Central Station (Chicago)
Chestnut Ridge Railroad (CHR) Chicago–Chemung Railroad (CCUO) Chicago Junction Railway (CJRY) Chicago Port & Rail (CPRL) Chicago Port Railroad (CPC) Chicago Rail Link (CRL) Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (CSS) Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE) Chicago, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (CSP) Cicero Central Railroad (CECR)