See also B&OCT.
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| 1898 LeventhalMap-system Credit: “Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library” |
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| 1898 LeventhalMap-connections Credit: “Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library” |
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| 1898 LeventhalMap-loop Credit: “Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library” |
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| Dave Arganbright posted Found this cool loop area map of the CTT from ca. 1898 on the internets recently... Bruce Corzine: Wow did not realize how much rail was located just east of the river. This is a very cool map, cannot tell from the map, did the rail yard extend north of Madison, or is this all at the south end ending around LaSalle st. And Jackson? Dennis DeBruler: You can download the full 10546 x 6883 resolution from here: https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f463620g Credit: “Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library” Let's see how much of that resolution Facebook retains. Update: it is 2048 x 1337 and the key is easy to read. [This comment also had a copy of the map attached.] |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Bruce's comment On the east side of the river, it did not go north of Van Buren. https://arcg.is/0qivW9 | and some mouse clicks |
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| safe_image (source) for American-Rails A brief history of the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal. In this scene, 0-8-0 #1704 appears to be carrying out switching chores at the Lincoln Street Coach Yard on March 25, 1956. |
Brian A Morgan posted five images with the comment:
Wisconsin Central formed the Chicago & Great Western Railroad (C&GW) by 1886 to build a connection from its end-of-line in Forest Park into the city and to construct the Grand Central Station, which opened in Dec 1890. In June 1887, the Chicago & Calumet Terminal (C&CT) was formed by Northern Pacific Railroad to consolidate several terminal railroads in the Chicago area. In March 1890 NP bought the C&GW and other WC lines in Chicago to form the Chicago & Northern Pacific (C&NP). Since NP owned both C&CT and C&NP, it connected them with new construction and trackage rights. The 1893 Panic bankrupted the C&NP. In July, 1897, the new company Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad (CTT) bought C&NP from Wisconsin Central. In May 1897, the CTT merged the C&CT. The B&O began using Grand Central in 1892 when a connection was made between the CTT and B&O at South Chicago. When the Pere Marquette was completed to Porter, IN in 1903, it also used the CTT into Grand Central. "On January 6, 1910 the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad was created to purchase the CTT at foreclosure, giving B&O control of the both the terminal railway system, as well as Grand Central Station." But CTT must have been split and the eastern end was bought by someone else because a modern B&OCT map does not show a line running to South Chicago. This section of line was severed at the Illinois Central Chicago Division trackage prior to 1892 Barksdale Junction when the Illinois Central elevated the mainline prior to the opening of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and in 1881 when an access dispute erupted between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad whom prior to access to Grand Central station used a temporary station where today the Art Institute of Chicago now stands but the South Chicago Branch remained in service terminating at the Illinois Central Tracks. The access for B&OCT trains was via South Chicago Junction.
Ronald Helms: Make a great photo book
Brian A Morgan: Ronald Helms. Not to many Baltimore and Ohio effectiandos cover the Western end of the system in detail neither the Chicago Terminal District or the Saint Louis Terminal District in detail. Both districts were very important districts because they were both gateways to Western Trunk lines and Southern Trunk Lines. Prior to 1946. The Baltimore and Ohio owned the Chicago and Alton Railroad providing B&O a onetime access and a direct link to the Western Trunk Line Association lines in the Kansas City area and a direct connection to the Kansas Pacific [ Union Pacific. ] Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Kansas City Southern, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific via Roodhouse, Illinois.
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