Bensenville Yard
| Bensenville Yard | |
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Eastern part of the marshalling yard with container terminal, 2019 (above location in the CPR network, Chicago metropolitan area ) |
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Marshalling yard |
| Design | Through station |
| opening | 1916 |
| location | |
| Place / district | Bensenville |
| State | Illinois |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 56 '47 " N , 87 ° 54' 4" W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
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The Bensenville Yard is a freight yard and shunting yard of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Bensenville and Franklin Park , Illinois . It is located 25 km northwest of Chicago below O'Hare International Airport . Its origins go back to a first freight yard on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) in 1916, which was expanded into a large marshalling yard with 70 directional tracks by the early 1950s . Milwaukee Road was merged into the Canadian Pacific in the late 1980s, which rebuilt and modernized the facilities. The Bensenville Yard is today the largest freight and marshalling yard (21 + 34 direction tracks) of the Canadian Pacific in the USA.
history
The later Milwaukee Road operated a connection from Chicago to the northwest to Elgin from the 1870s , which led via rural Bensenville . The first larger freight yard with a locomotive shed was built here by 1916 , which was continuously expanded in the following years and made a significant contribution to the development of Bensenville. In addition, the Douglas Aircraft Company built a factory airfield north of Bensenville Yard during World War II , which was later expanded to become Chicago O'Hare International Airport .
Due to the sharp increase in freight traffic during and after the World War, Milwaukee Road expanded Bensenville Yard to one of the world's largest marshalling yards with a total of 70 directional tracks . On an area of over 130 hectares , including the entry and exit groups, it had around 200 km of track with a total capacity of almost 9,000 freight wagons. In 1958, the Milwaukee Road began with the piggyback Transports of trailers could be causing the manual reloading of goods avoided. A loading station for flat wagons was built on the east side of Bensenville Yard , which at the end of the 1960s took up an area of almost 19 hectares. This type of handling in intermodal freight traffic was later increasingly replaced by the emergence of ISO containers and the area was expanded into a container terminal .
In 1986 the SOO Line Railroad took over Milwaukee Road, which in turn was bought out in 1990 by the Canadian Pacific Railway , which rebuilt and modernized the Bensenville Yard in the late 1990s. Today it is the largest freight and marshalling yard of the Canadian Pacific in the USA; over 220,000 containers were handled here at the CP Rail Chicago Intermodal Terminal in 2016.
Today's plant
The 5 km long Bensenville Yard is now divided into an east and west section, between which the drainage hill and the signal box are located; In addition, two Union Pacific Railroad tracks cross the area here. In the western part there is a marshalling yard with 21 directional tracks and the still preserved turntable of the old ring locomotive shed with some access tracks . In the center of the larger eastern part is a marshalling yard with 34 direction tracks, flanked by tracks for incoming and outgoing trains as well as the tracks of the container terminal in the southeast, which together with over 30 tracks take up an equally large area.
The Tri-State Tollway (Interstate 294) has crossed Bensenville Yard on the east side since the 1960s . As part of the planned expansion of the road network around Chicago O'Hare International Airport , a ring highway will in future also run over the site of the old locomotive shed on the west side and cross the outer end of the local marshalling yard.
See also
Web links
- CP Rail Chicago Intermodal Terminal. Terminal Operations Management.
literature
- Engineering Department Employee's Handbook. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, 1969.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ann Durkin Keating: Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide. University of Chicago Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-226-42883-3 , pp. 106 f.
- ↑ Kenneth Ritzert: Bensenville. History of DuPage County. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ↑ Classification Yards. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, 1956, pp. 4 f.
- ^ Welcome to the Milwaukee Road. and Chicago Switching Dist. & Terre Haute Division Connections. In: Engineering Department Employee's Handbook. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, 1969.
- ↑ Michael Rhodes: North American Railyards. Arcadia Publishing, 2011, ISBN 0-7603-1578-7 , p. 126 f.
- ↑ Chicago Intermodal Facility Lift Counts and Regional TEU Estimate (May, 2017). Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, May 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ^ Elgin O'Hare - West Bypass: Alternatives Development and Evaluation - Freight Rail Impacts. CH2M HILL, Final Technical Memorandum for the Illinois Department of Transportation, November 17, 2009, p. 2 f.
- ^ The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority-Response in Support of its Petition / or Declaratory Order, Finance Docket No. 36075. The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority before the Surface Transportation Board , March 17, 2017, Exhibit 4, pp. 41 f.
- ^ Western Access to O'Hare Nearing Reality. Construction Equipment, June 13, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- ^ Marni Pyke: Tollway close to deal on land to build O'Hare ring road. Daily Herald, June 12, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.