B&OCT and IHB Whiting Yards

B&OCT Whiting Yard: (Satellite)
IHB Whiting Yard: (Satellite)

Dennis DeBruler posted two images with the comment:

What was the name of the B&OCT yard shown in red on the first map? The reason I ask is that I noticed on a 1960 Whiting Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 that there used to be a roundhouse south of 121st Street along this yard. And because, according to a satellite image, some of the tracks still exist and handle tank cars for the BP refinery. The historic aerials web site does not show the roundhouse in a 1959 image, but it does show it in a 1952 image.

David Hersrud I believe that was called EAST CHICAGO YARD?
Andre Kristopans East Chicago Yard is the one on the east-west line south of there. This is Whiting Yard.

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[Note the green yard a little further East is IHB's Whiting Yard.]

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railroad_journal posted

CSX (BOCT) in Whiting

This is an except of the BOCT Railroad Map of the Indiana Harbor Region. The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (reporting mark BOCT) is a terminal railroad in the Chicago area now controlled by CSX. CSX provides service to the steel and petroleum industries in NW Indiana.

The area around the Indiana Harbor Canal in one of the largest heavy industry corridors in the Midwest. While East Chicago, Indiana is home to steel production, Whiting hosts the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.

This is a look at the yard and loading racks on the west side of the refinery along Indianapolis Blvd in Whiting. Savage Services is the contract in-plant switcher for BP. They interchange with CN & IHB in the Whiting Yard on the east side of the refinery. The CSX (BOCT) is on the west side of the refinery.

Between 2008 and 2013, BP invested $4.2 billion into the Whiting Refinery. The BP Whiting Refinery is generating three times as much petcoke — a petroleum refinery byproduct — now that it’s processing more heavy crude from the Canadian oil sands. Petcoke is burned as fuel for electricity generation and steelmaking. The refinery is primarily located in Whiting, Indiana, though portions of the 1,400 acres complex span into the neighboring cities of Hammond and East Chicago. The refinery processes around 440,000 barrels of crude oil every day. Whiting produces a wide range of liquid fuels, along with 7% of all asphalt in the United States.

Joseph Tuch Santucci: This is a bit out of date as Savage has not been the contract switching outfit at BP in at least six years. CSX hasn’t delivered or pulled cars from the west side in years. They are now rebuilding the connecting because of the bridge 631 on CN being heavily damaged by a ship.

Alex Engelke: Railserve has the contract these days.

Mark Petersen commented on the above post
This one is from a 1947 B&OCT Timetable