Rock Island's Coach (12th Street) Yard

Steve OConnor posted
Another of my Dad's (Roderick O'Connor) photos of Chicago circa 1947-48. Rock Island commuter coach yard in Chicago.
Bob Lalich This view looks south from Roosevelt Road at the Rock Island commuter coach yard.

So it would be the yard tracks on the east (right) side of this photo. The tracks on the west side are B&OCT tracks servicing Grand Central Station. Some of the fill of the original course of the South Branch has yet to be developed. I think it became Rock Island's Piggyback Yard.

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Update: This yard was rebuilt as their 12th Street Piggyback Yard.

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William Shapotkin posted
Hard to believe, but Amtrak will turn 48 next year. That means at least two (if not three) generations of fans know of no other intercity rail operator in the USA but Amtrak. Well, this year (2018) marks the 50th anniversary of the Penn Central merger. For the benefit of those who never knew the New York Central, allow me to offer this shot of NYC loco #7300, taken off the Roosevelt Rd bridge looking S-S/W...oh, and speaking of things you can't see anymore, how about those ACF-built ROCK commuter cars, eh?
Robert Bogie This engine was retired in February 1966 so would be prior to that date. More significant is it's unusual paint scheme that no one has mentioned. It has the cigar band stripe used on cab units applied to both ends. Road switchers did not use the cigar band striping.

William Brown posted
From the J Quinn Collection, RI 492 leads on a Train of 2400/2500 Series Commuter Coaches. The 492 is painted in the Material Services Red/Yellow Paint Scheme. The 492 is an Alco RS3 built for Suburban Services in November of 1951. It was Traded to EMD in August of 1970. The photo was taken in the Coach Yard behind the Freight House adjacent to Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois. No photographer noted.

Jeff Worones posted
Fred Mohr Your at the south end of 12st Yard on the turntable leads. 16th St Tower is behind and to the left after you across the "moat" of the CWI RR. Continental paper is the building in the background. The RS's are probably in commuter service and waiting to spin on the turntable.
You still can find part of the pit wall out there today.Ron Wesolowski Fred Mohr is correct..at least one of the RS3 is a suburban service one...they had the hump on the long hood walkway

Is the circle on this map the turntable? Since this map is concerned with tracks serving the Dearborn Station, a lot of Rock Island tracks are missing.

1964 Dearborn Stations Access

BRHS posted
One of the Rock Island's newly acquired GM Aerotrains, outbound at Roosevelt Road.
Dennis DeBruler Given the B&OCT and St. Charles bridges, the cold storage building, and the top of the South Branch Bridge tower peaking over the top of the cold storage building, we are looking southwest. So the train is heading northbound, which would be incoming.
Bob Lalich Yes, the train is inbound unless they ran these beasts in reverse.

Marty Bernard posted

Baltimore & Ohio RS1 9186 and a baggage car near Grand Central Station, Chicago, IL. Photo taken from Roosevelt Road Bridge on December 26, 1967.

Note The Rock Island piggyback yard and coach yard with daytime layover commuter coaches and the leads to LaSalle Street Station.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Bill Rala Flickr photo catches a passenger train arrival with an Alco RS-3 switcher getting ready to pick up a set of commuter cars in the RI's commuter yard.