Chicago 1930 lasalle lake5/26/2023 The depot engine would then shove train to the post (on maybe a different track). Depot engine would then pull train south and road engine would follow them out (by signals) and go somewhere beside their train. The procedure was after stopping at the post and passengers were off, the fireman would turn off the lights (steam already off) and carman would cut the engine off train. ![]() In the case of a non rush hour conventional equipment suburban train that would turn out of LaSalle St and had a dual control locomotive. There was a turntable and servicing for the suburban engines at 16th St plus a bunk house for the engine crews laying there. The Rock Island road engine crew and a switchman (backup) pilot handled their own train and engines between 51st St coach yard and the depot or the suburban coach yard at 12th St in the case of suburban trains. The road engine crew handled the road power to and from Englewood. The NYC had a yard job handle their trains between LaSalle Street and the coach yard at 44th St. With the main line passenger trains it somewhat depended on train length and/or what they would have blocked while in the train shed. Hope this helps.Īs much as possible they tried to get the outbound suburban (rush hour)trains on the same track every day. Commuters are like cattle, they tend to take the same path daily. Long winded, but the Chicago map is a maze. I was in LaSalle Street station once or twice before Amtrak and the assignment of trains by railroad to specific tracks was not too obvious, but each train was probably spotted on a particular track on a regular basis so employees and regular passengers didn't have to guess where their train was parked. Once on the North side of the NYC main, the line turned and followed alongside the NYC for a short distance, then joined the NYC." It then followed alongside the IC to just South of Grand Crossing, crossed over the IC, ran along the west side of the tracks toward the NYC and PRR, then went under the two. Its mainline continued across these two lines and the CRL(RI), Northwest to the IC mainline. Here the road made connections with the C&WI and the BRC. Generally following the C&WI, the line headed North-Northwest past Calumet Yard to Pullman Junction. There the line entered Illinois and went Northwest through Burnham into Chicago alonside the C&WI. After crossing the NYC at Osborn, the line headed for downtown Hammond and Homan Avenue Crossing, IHB, then north to State Line Crossing. Here the two separated and the NKP went through the South side of Gary, across the EJ&E at Van Loon, and into Hammond. The line went West Northwest toward Valpariso, then ran alongside the PRR Fort Wayne Line to Hobart. Actual entry into the area was east of Thomaston(,Indiana). ![]() "The Nickle Plate Road had only one line into the area, and this came from the East. ![]() Quoting from John Szwajkart's 3rd Edition of Train Watcher's Guide to Chicago: If you can find the July 2003 issue of TRAINS magazine, there is a foldout of the Chicago area that shows how the various railroads entered Chicago in 1928. A little searching for Chicago Railroads and LaSalle Street Station should help you find what you need. I don't remember where the Nickle Plate split off. I know about 6 miles south, at Englewood, the New York Central tracks split off and turned East. Early in its history the train shed was much higher. There was a sign in the station pointing one way for RI tickets and another way for NYC and Nickle Plate Rd tickets. I went through again in June(?) 1969 on a trip to see a Cardinals & Cubs baseball game. I rode the Peoria Rocket to Chicago with my dad. There was an elevated train just outside the front door so you really could not see the front of the station. The tracks narrowed down to about 4 just south of the station. ![]() There were heavy beams above and it was kind of dark inside the train shed. 10 to 12 tracks wide grouped in pairs dead ending in a low shed at the south side of the 13 story building. While others may know the flow better, I will try the decription as I remember it from the mid 1960's.
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