CN/GM&O/C&A/Alton Glenn Yard and Roundhouse

Photo from Mike Matalis

The yard still has tracks, but they are shorter. CN's main classification yard is now Kirk Yard, and they would use this for just (short) local freights.

Satellite

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP at full resolution

Joseph Tuch Santucci posted
From high in the sky its CN's former IC/ICG/GM&O/C&A Glenn Yard in Forest View. That's the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and on the north side of the Stevenson is BNSF's former Santa Fe double main track.

Nick Goedecke posted
Glenn Yard Chicago August 1970
Carlisle Kelly if you could see behind engine # 11 you would see the Plug equipment--it was brought to Glenn daily for servicing then back to Union Station for the trip back to Joliet.The engine would return to Glenn with a switchman from Glenn Yard and the Plugs train crew would remain downtown all day--they had second jobs in Chicago--usually as runners at the Chicago Board of Trade.

Jon Roma posted

Back in the Seventies after the IC/GM&O merger, Glenn Yard on Chicago's southwest side remained a refuge of interesting and varied former GM&O power – it was as if the 1972 merger of the two railroads had never occurred.

The bunch of teenage railfan friends I hung out with during the late Seventies were frequently attracted to Glenn Yard to see what was often a motley collection of motive power in GM&O colors. The sights were noteworthy enough that some fans in my circle were known to refer to it as "the Glenn Yard Museum."

This shot was taken by an unknown photographer on April 17, 1977. I never made it to Glenn that many times from my home in northwest suburban Park Ridge, but it was definitely a memorable place on my occasional visits.

Glenn Yard is still a major facility for CN, although the acquisition of the EJ&E changed a lot of the dynamics of train routing through he Chicago area to the extent that I have lost track of the details.

Jon Roma The two readily identifiable units in this scene are the ICG 1610 (formerly the GM&O 809A) and the GM&O 800B, both F3A units. Hiding behind the 1610 is what looks like it might be 806B, another F3A.
Mark Frankel Phase I F-3s in stock condition (i.e., three intact side portholes) were extremely rare birds by the late '70s. Think I saw the 800B at Union Station in Chicago in winter of 1978 as I was boarding the Broadway Limited for New York.
Neil Stutzman Glenn still serves the many industries in that part of the city and is fairly busy. GTW GP38-2s are the common switching power at the yard the last few times i went by there.

Nick Hart posted
R924 heads south out of Glenn Yard with a B&LE and EJ&E SD38 combo! This job is nearing Argo, where it'll make its way into the industries to handle the switching duties.
Summit, IL
02-21-19
Dennis DeBruler Yesterday I learned that the Kinder Morgan terminal can "unload roughly 120 to 150 tank cars of ethanol each week, or roughly 4 million gallons, and can load two barges, or roughly 1.2 million gallons, at a time." It is unclear who uses the loop track, https://www.google.com/.../@41.7721156,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3, because I could not find any unloading or loading facilities on it. Ingredion is also next to that loop. (Kinder Morgan source: https://www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-ethanol-kinder-morgan...)

Another example of a local that still uses this yard.

HalstEd Pazdzior posted
Train L535 returns towards Glenn Yard. Seen here crossing the Cal Sag Channel in Lemont / Willow Springs.
6/16/22
Fred Van Dorpe: They turned the power around? Where would they do that?
HalstEd Pazdzior: Fred Van Dorpe I'm guessing the job to Hawthorne and maybe they wyed at the belt crossing.

There appears to have been grain elevators south of the roundhouse.

David Wilson from his photoset
19721200 19 ICG Glenn Yard

1940 Aerial Photo from IHLAP, at full resolution

1953 Berwyn Quadrant, 1:24000

1963 Berwyn Quadrant, 1:24000

1993 Berwyn Quadrant, 1:24000

1998 Berwyn Quadrant, 1:24000

A Marty Bernard Flickr photo of an ALCO RS1 on the turntable.

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