Corwith Yard
| Corwith Intermodal Facility | |
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Aerial photo of the container terminal from 2018 |
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Container terminal |
| Design | Through station |
| opening | 1888 |
| location | |
| Place / district | Chicago |
| State | Illinois |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 48 '58 " N , 87 ° 42' 55" W |
| List of train stations in the United States | |
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The Corwith Yard , officially Corwith Intermodal Facility , is a container terminal in southwest Chicago . In intermodal freight transport, 810,000 freight containers (2017) are handled here between rail and road transport every year. The beginnings of the facility go back to a freight yard of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) from 1888, which has since been expanded into a large marshalling yard . With the change in the handling of goods from the manual loading of general cargo to the piggyback transport of semi-trailers to the use of ISO containers , one of the largest container terminals in Chicago was gradually built by the end of the 20th century. It is now operated by the BNSF Railway , in which the AT&SF was absorbed in 1995.
history
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At the time of the expanding railroad companies in North America at the end of the 19th century, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) expanded its route network in the east to Chicago and in 1888 acquired a 77- acre property from Nathan Corwith on its main route in the southwest of the city . With the Corwith Yard, they built a freight and marshalling yard , which became increasingly important as the eastern end of the AT&SF freight trains from California , New Mexico and Texas . It was expanded in the following years and expanded with a locomotive shed and other workshops.
The sharp increase in freight traffic during the Second World War brought the station to its capacity limit in the 1940s, and the systems designed for steam locomotives were increasingly unsuitable with the advent of large diesel locomotives . The AT&SF therefore had the site completely rebuilt between 1949 and 1958 for 20 million US dollars . Several large freight halls with up to eight tracks were built, in which the general cargo could be transported between the freight cars and the truck loading points by means of conveyor systems . A marshalling yard with 32 direction tracks was built in the center, as well as a further 33 storage and transfer tracks in the outer area; the total capacity was around 6,000 freight cars.
As early as the mid-1950s, AT&SF began experimenting with the so-called piggyback transport of semi-trailers on flat cars ( trailer on flatcar , TOFC), which made it possible to avoid manual reloading of the goods. This form of intermodal freight transport increasingly replaced general cargo transport with covered freight wagons . The railway company recognized the potential of the new transport system early on and expanded the Corwith Yard in the 1960s and 1970s from the original 0.77 km² to over 1.3 km². A rebuilding process of the site began again, in the course of which the marshalling yard had to make way for new loading stations equipped with gantry cranes . The daily ratio between processed classic freight wagons and TOFC transports at Corwith Yard was 980:40 in 1964 and rose to 560:480 by 1982. The AT&SF merged in 1995 with the Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway , the Today's Corwith Intermodal Facility operates mainly as a container terminal .
Today's plant
The container terminal has eleven continuous tracks for container loading and two shorter butt tracks on the north side. On the west side there are several storage and transfer tracks as well as a maintenance hall for the freight cars. The railway facilities are surrounded by a large number of storage areas for containers, semi-trailers and tractors . More than 810,000 freight containers were handled on the Corwith Intermodal Facility in 2017 , which was the third-largest loading volume between rail and road transport in the Chicago metropolitan area after Logistics Park Chicago (960,000, BNSF) and CSX Bedford Park (900,000, CSX Transportation ) ; the total number in this intermodal freight transport was 7.8 million containers.
See also
Web links
- Intermodal facilities. BNSF Railway
- BNSF Chicago (Corwith). Mid-America Freight Coalition
- SantaFe Corwith Yard. Industrial History on Industrialscenery.blogspot.com
literature
- Selwyn Kip Farrington: Railroads of the Hour. Coward-McCann, New York 1958, pp. 297-311 ( digitized ).
- H. Hall: Expansion and Development of Santa Fe's Corwith Intermodal Facility. In: Facing the Challenge, The Intermodal Terminal of the Future, Conference on Intermodal Freight Terminal Design. New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2-5, 1986 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b H. Hall: Expansion and Development of Santa Fe's Corwith Intermodal Facility. In: Conference on Intermodal Freight Terminal Design. New Orleans, March 2-5, 1986.
- ^ Selwyn Kip Farrington: Railroads of the hour. Coward-McCann, 1958, pp. 297-311.
- ↑ Michael Rhodes: North American Railyards. Arcadia Publishing, 2011, ISBN 0-7603-1578-7 , pp. 11-13.
- ↑ Intermodal Facilities. BNSF Railway. Retrieved September 15, 2018.
- ↑ Chicago Intermodal Facility Lift Counts and Regional TEU Estimate (December, 2018). Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, May, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2019.