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Chicago Railroad Yards - Railfan Guides Railfan Access: None: 47th St and 51st St both go under the yard Special features notes: Signal bridge on the north side of 47th St, there were 2 other tracks here at one time
Metra: Chicago’s Towers - Railfan Railroad Magazine Because the 47th Street Coach Yard is another couple miles to the south, all revenue and coach yard moves must pass the aging structure, with the operator working under the direction of Metra’s Rock Island Terminal Dispatcher located at Metra’s Consolidated Control Facility…
METRA, 47th Street Yard Modernization – Delta Engineering Group, LLC This is a new, stand-alone, two-story building for coach truck and engine maintenance training Interior spaces include: 15 offices; conference and lunch rooms; six classrooms; hands-on, high roof training area; and men’s and women’s locker rooms
Industrial History: Metra Rock Island 49th Street Coach Shop Metra aquired Rock Island's 47th Street Yard when they purchased the route from LaSalle Street Station after the RI went bankrupt The engine servicing facility next to 47th Street is called their 47th Street Yard A building a little further south of the "Rocket House" was the coach shop
Industrial History: Metra Rock Island 47th Street Yard . . . - Blogger Metra Rock Island 47th Street Yard (Rocket House) and 1962-2007 Robert Taylor Homes This railyard also has the 49th Street Coach Shop Steven J Brown posted eight photos of engines at 47th Street on January 28, 1978 This one has the best view of the Rocket House Some of the photos also have the Robert Taylor Homes in the background
Chicago Freight Houses - Page 3 - Classic Trains General Discussion . . . The Rock Island turntable is at CRI P’s 47th Street coach yard, now Metra’s main maintenance facility At some point after the photo was taken the Rock Island added the “Rocket House” - not sure whether Metra replaced it at some point (Current buildings look too clean to date to the 1930s 40s) or just modernized it
Industrial History: 47th Street Tower: C WI vs. IHB + GTW It was all taken out in 1999 when the C WI Metra southwest route was relocated west of C WI's former 51st St yard Prior to this, the C WI mains sat in between former PRR 55th St yard and 51st St yard
SouthWest Service Move to LaSalle Street - RAILROAD. NET The coach yard is barely big enough to fit the Rock Island trains as it is Nowadays only the diesel shop is referred to as the "Rocket House" The car shops are 49th Street, and the coach yard itself is 51st Street LaSalle would need expanded too, at rush hour all the tracks are filled as well
Industrial History: NSs 47th Street Yard Intermodal Yard NS got the 55th Street Yard when it got the Pennsy mainline in Chicago as part of the Conrail split And it got the 51st Street Yard when C WI was split between Metra, UP, and NS NS has merged all three of these yards into one big yard
History of the Chicago 47th St. Yard - forum. trains. com PRRs TrucTrain facility was part of the PRR’s 55th St yard NS acquired its interest in the 47th st property with the Wabash 47th St is the former C WI coach yard that served all of the Dearborn Station railroads except AT SF (C WI, Monon, Wabash, C EI, GTW, Erie) The two yard areas have kind of expanded into each other over the years