Saturday, April 8, 2017

B&OCT History Details

Scott Griffith is finding interesting history details about the B&OCT faster than I can absorb them. So I'm recording the links here as reference material. To use this links, you will probably have to join the B&OCT RAILROAD group.

Old map that shows additional tracks around Altenheim and Bob's offer for the B&OCT history file

1955 B&OCT station code book #11

IHB tieing into the north side of the East Chicago yards

RIP house yard was once C yard

Interlocking tower at the north end of A yard at East Chicago

Location of freight office in C yard at East Chicago

Joint operations with Pennsy between State Line and Pine Junction

HS tower on the lake front, were we would have kept going north from the North A yard at East Chicago into Whiting

C&WI RR 47th St. Station 1905 Bot Lalich posted a map that shows where the stairwell to 47th street was. I posted a 1938 aerial.

1919 State Line to Bunham Ave.
A Lot of unknown history here. 
-There were tracks north of Brainard ave, 
-EJ&E had a yard here
-never heard of the Kensington and Eastern RR

Alt sub    Central Ave. area

48th Ave / Cicero    Satellite

Bob Lalich Cullen-Friedsted was located at 1300 S. Kilbourn Ave. This was the north end of BRC's 22nd St Yard.  Satellite

Northeast of the McCook crossing     It is now Fed Ex and a quarry hole    The initial posting for this area  Western Reduction   US Reduction in East Chicago was also switched by PRR and Wabash.

Freight Station at Chicago Heights question

Calumet Refinery

Edmier INC. 1951

G S Blakeslee & co.     Craig Holmberg A lot of industries in this area were reciprocal switching with the BRC. Also the B&O proper, had rights to switch this area but not for connection roads.

Mystery


Switcher 8418 switched Wyman-Gordon

1955    South Water Market

1948   U.S. SANITARY SPECIALTIES CORP

East Chicago

1929 Riverdale interlocking

General Foods

Whiting Branch 1955

Edison GE Appliance
Les Wuollett The northwest tip of 48th Ave Yard is above Gustave Lidseen bldg and just below B&OCT main. Upper left shows x'over to main which I think we called Central Ave when calling dispatcher to get a clearance. Even though CGW used the yard at the time B&OCT did the industry work. Run 52 (4pm) out of Homan did most of the work. They used the small yard (abt 1/2 dozen trks) located off 3rd main between Cicero Ave and BRC to line up cars and for storage.

22nd to 16th on the Blue Island subLes Wuollett I worked the 22nd st switchtender job on occasion. Would line up trains going from B&OCT to CB&Q. The CJ also had a switchtender who would complete line up toward CB&Q over the CJ trks. The shanty was very small and squeezed between the Pennsy and B&OCT trks. The clearance was so close that on the first day working there I would stand out side... Worried that any rocking cars might knock shanty down. However, the east bound road trains coming out of Robey St yard were still using steam locomotives and it would rain cinders... Stayed in shanty after that. lol

South Grant Spur

15th Place & Cicero  has quite a few comments about switching for connecting railroads.

Grant Wilson INC.

Burt Wheeling Brick

1918 Blueprint I just found in my collection of stuff I didn't even know I had of Dolton tower.

1915 Chicago Hieghts Blueprint. EJ&E, Chicago Hieghts Terminal Transfer, "? Central Railroad?
Bob Lalich Probably Michigan Central RR.

1912    Pine Jct                      1912    Pine Jct "Indiana" interlocking tower lever configuration

75th st

1915    Florence Spur in Hammond, IN.

Hill & Griffith industry     Manufacturer's junction railway lease

Metro Glass better know as Ball Glass to me

American Can Co. 1930

B&OCT & IHB interchange agreement 1931

Commercial Wallpaper Mill inc.   Hammond IN

Rockwell Engineering Co. 1950

BaumBach Electrocast steel Foundry

Midwest Beverage Co.

Humes & Berg manufacturer co.

Sears

Rosenbloom barrel & Drum

Earl Wacker I know where 149th & Loomis is on the Chgo Heights sub but there was never a swith there that I recall.




Louisville Cement Co.

What was this place at the east end of the south side East Chicago Yard at Baring ave?

B&OCT over new channel and SCAL still over old channel  Bob Lalich posted a photo of both bridges in-line

Crossovers between B&OCT and SCAL bridges



16th st. Bridge

Title Craft inc

H H walker & co.

Siding for Maremont Automotive Products

East Chicago water works (asking for help)

Barr Yard when only E yard was there

95th Street Crossing

Maremont Automotive Products      more track changes

Rock Island Junction

Pullman ave and Hammond st in Calumet Park?     The Bishop Ford Expy runs along the former Pullman Ave. It was the dividing line between Dolton and Calumet City.

NYC sand pit track

From WC to downtown

It's the Altenheim line between Western Ave tower and Rockwell St Jct.

Where my finger is pointing it is marked IHB RR. What!? 49th st?


Industrial Cinders at Pine Jct

Chicago Hieghts

B&O freight house #2

C&O Pere Marquette Freight House

Brookdale branch

Exhibit D: Panhandle crossed CJ RY just north of 49th

Never knew these tracks were at the East leg of the WYE going onto the Hieghts sub

The Foley Greenhouse Mfg. Co.

Central Ave before elevated

Ok This is up on the Lake front, but what the heck is a BUNK HOUSE never heard or saw one of these on a blue print

Jefferson Ice

Gary depot

Gary freight house

Bethlehem Steel

Rockwell Yard

Short cut over IC and CJ to stock yards and "GCS freight yard"

Dolton industrial spur

Rock Island Junction

International Harvester    Bob Lalich Just north of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at 31st St.

Says 16th St to the north and End of R/W to the south for B&OCT

Old North Hammond History

Central Ave before elevation or underpass

Whiting interlocking

Madison Ave station

Republic interlocking tower

49th Street

Chicago Avenue: Hammond Whiting & East Chicago Electric Railway

48th Avenue Yard

Euclid ave in East Chicago, didn't know this track layout existed

East Chicago roundhouse

Forest Park depot and tower

63rd Depot

East Chicago: now the north end of the Kankakee Line

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