Does anyone know if the Burlington South Chicago Terminal (isolated property connected to the EJ&E) was intended to be a collection point for the CB&Q to obtain slag ballast?
Incorporated: February 7, 1917
Construct a railroad from a point on the railroad of The Belt Railway Company near One Hundredth Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, thence extending southerly and southwesterly a distance of about ten ( 10) miles to the southerly limits of the City of Chicago, in the County of Cook and State of Illinois.
The property of the company consists of approximately twenty-nine acres of land in the South Chicago Dock Company's Addition, south of One Hundredth Street, in the town of Hyde Park, Cook County, Illinois, purchased by the company from the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, February 16, 1917, land is occupied with main and side tracks approximately 53,542 feet in length, together with roundhouse and other buildings. The tracks owned by the company are operated as side and terminal tracks and terminal property of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, which owns all of the capital stock of this company, and is also part owner of The Belt Railway Company of Chicago, whose tracks form a connection between the roads of said companies.
Acquired by the Chicago & Western Indiana RR in 1933, and leased to the Belt Railway of Chicago.
The ICC Valuaton report states the CB&Q had 8.924 miles of yard tracks and sidings and the EJ&E had 0.275 miles located between 101st Street and 105th Street near the mouth of the Calumet River in South Chicago, IL and that there were no bridges or buildings of any consequence. The tracks served several slips on the Calumet River.
Charlie Vlk