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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.
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. 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 operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago (reporting mark BRC), headquartered in Bedford Park, Illinois, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by the six Class I railroads of the United States — BNSF, Canadian National, CPKC (the BRC's north–south main line's northern terminus is, like the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Milwaukee District West Line in Chicago ...
Chicago Rail Link: La Salle and Chicago Railroad: B&O: 1867 1873 Chicago and Great Western Railroad: Lake Erie and Mississippi Railway: NKP: 1884 1885 Lake Erie and Western Railway: Lake Erie and Western Railroad: NKP: 1887 1923 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: Lake Erie and Western Railway: NKP: 1879 1886 Lake Erie and Western Railroad
Pages in category "Chicago "L" yards" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 61st Yard; 98th ...
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.
This category contains railroad companies that operate or operated in Chicagoland, roughly bounded by the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (now CN) "Outer Belt". See also: Category:Railway lines in Chicago
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.