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Two Ways: Chicago to Galesburg, Ill ATK Amtrak MAP OF THE MONTH ATSF Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe BNSF BNSF Railway BRC Belt Railway of Chicago Chicago MendotaBuilt Sub 1854 C&A Chicago & Alton Galesburg Railroad Museum (CB&Q) (UP, ATK) (CB&Q) 440 1870 Built C Plant CB&Q Chicago, Burlington & Quincy map area 211 South Seminary St. Sub Barstow CN Canadian National Galesburg Galesburg, IL MP 162.0 Two ways: Chicago to Galesburg, Ill. Peck CNW Chicago & North Western 34 B Plant Park CSX CSX Transportation MP 162.2 EJ&E Elgin, Joliet & Eastern 150 BNSF Railway has two main lines between the Windy City and its Midwest classification terminal North St. Chillicothe Sub G&GE Galesburg & Great Eastern I L L I N O I S (UP) (ATSF) Main St. IAIS Iowa Interstate 164 Union Depot Railroad IC Illinois Central South St. Museum ICG Illinois Central Gulf St. Seminary Chillicothe Sub A connection is planned 683 Main St., Mendota, Ill. IC IHB Indiana Harbor Belt Opened 1888 BNSF Mendota Sub here between BNSF and CN Freeport Sub (UP) (ATSF) A Plant East BNSF Barstow Sub Aband. MILW BNSF Aurora Batavia West Chicago IR Illinois Railway 150 Opened 1864 by Chicago, IAIS for future Amtrak 1985 CB&Q Sub to La Crosse, BN Aband. 1977 MP 162.5 to Savanna, Ill. Burlington & Quincy from service to Moline, Iowa Aband. Aband. (CB&Q) BNSF West KSR Kosciusko & Southwestern A Plant West Alpha (CB&Q) Chicago to Burlington; 1981 Wis. (CB&Q) UP Geneva Sub (IC) Not all lines in this St. Academy RI 1984 Chicago area shown M&StL Minneapolis & St. Louis MP 162.6 Galesburg CB&Q CB&Q Woodhull Aband. 1982 to BNSF 1995 (UP, ATK) CB&Q CB&Q Greenwood Nifa IT (CB&Q) (CNW) GI Academy Knox St. Aband. 1978 Aband. 1983 Aband. 1954 Aband. 1985 Mendota Earlville BNSF Nifa METRA Metra Monmouth Blvd. MP 162.9 IHB Main Line Cicero Chicago MP 180.0 MP 163.4 Peoria Sub CB&Q Branch (CB&Q) La MILW Milwaukee Road 3rd Built 1854 Neponset Eola Lake Michigan Alexis Aband. 1986 Bishop Hill Grange Intermodal St. 4th Wyanet Zearing Montgomery Eola Ogilvie NS Norfolk Southern Santa Fe transfer (CB&Q) IAIS Sub 1 (RI) Facility Ogden St. CB&Q Rio Buda Princeton (CB&Q) Downers Trans. Ctr. Kewanee IR MILW Yard Jct. Aband. 1958 CB&Q UP Troy GroveCB&Q Baker Aurora Grove PIR Pioneer Industrial Railway 3rd St. North Sub (CNW) Union Aband. 1961 CB&Q Aband. 1981 Aband. Plano Lisle BNSF Chicago Sub RI Rock Island Viaduct Troy Grove Somonauk (UP, METRA, ATK) Station Henderson Wataga RI Aband. 1983 1983 Sandwich Galesburg Manufacturing Galva Howe Ladd CB&Q Fox River Naperville RTN Rutland, Toluca & Northern Altona Aband. 1982 IC Aband. IR CN (CB&Q) 440 Center (former Maytag plant) Ottumwa Sub Departure yard Receiving Aband. 1985 (CB&Q) 21st St. UP Union Pacific (ATK) (CB&Q) yard Amtrak station Henderson Oneida 1958 (EJ&E) 6 tracks MonmouthBNSF Ottumwa Sub Lombardville LS Jct. Burgess CN Matteson GM Yard Previous owners/operators in red 11 tracks Metra station Buzzi Leithton Sub BNSF Aband. 34 to Creston, Iowa (CB&Q) Bureau IR Jct. Sub (EJ&E) River Diesel refueling La Fayette Unicem IR Plainfield McCook 1996 (ATSF) Abandoned Car repair Drawbridge CB&Q IAIS Sub 1(CB&Q) (ICG) facility St. Seminary South See detail at right Aband. 1981 (CB&Q) (River) CP 46 Clay shop Shuttle loader Galesburg G&GE Victoria Toulon (RI) Willow Diesel shop Aband. 1960 Springs BRC MP 165.5 Utica Hotbox detector Cameron RI (RI) Peru Intermodal (MP 95) Ottawa Clearing CSX/NS Corwith BNSF Chillicothe Aband. 1973 IAIS Sub 2 1 Track number BNSF Chillicothe CSX New Rock Sub Des Plaines Facility IHB Main Line Yard Intermodal 10 10 Sub “Transcon” RI Wyoming MILW La Salle CN Sub to Fort UP Peoria Hennepin Aband. 1981 CN Joliet Sub(C&A) Elsdon Sub (CNW) Facility Aband. 1963 Granville (IAIS) (RI) Joliet Yard Madison, (ATSF) CB&Q CN Illinois (ATK, METRA, UP) Amtrak’s Southwest Chief was GALESBURG YARD Iowa (ATSF) BNSF Peoria Dahinda RI CB&Q River(EJ&E) Sub Thirwell Bridge CB&Q Sub (CB&Q) Aband. 1981 Aband. 1963 McNabb RTN Illinois River Joliet moved from the former Santa Fe Rock Island Railroad Henry Oglesby Aband. Minooka Note: New control points being added Aband. 1938 Monica NS Kankakee 1980 Chillicothe Sub to the Burlington Classification yard Abingdon Williamsfield Museum, 3rd & Cedar, RTN Branch (NYC) Seneca CSX New Rock Sub 41 Chillicothe, Ill. (IAIS) (RI) Mendota Sub between Chicago OttumwaBuilt 1855 Sub 57 tracks between Knox St. and Waterman M&StL Rock Island Aband. 1937 CN Matteson Sub Thirwell IR and the Cameron Connection (ATK) (CB&Q) MP 164.3 Aband. 1975 Trail State Park Sparland in 1996. ICG (C&A) Lostant (CB&Q) Plaines South (EJ&E) Maquon Yates City Lacon Aband. 1980 Lake La Salle Divine Joliet Elmwood Edelstein Power Plant BNSF Chillicothe(ATSF) Maintenance of M&StL London ICG (C&A) Sub “Transcon” UP Global 4 0 Scale 1 mile way equipment N Aband. 1976 ATSF Illinois Varna Aband. 1980 IC Ransom KSR Yard office Mills Aband. ca. 1942 Pequot Joliet Knox Rd. repair shop CB&Q CB&Q Princeville River Bridge Aband. 1985 Streator Intermodal and tower © 2014 Kalmbach Publishing Co., replaced 1932 Mazon Coal City 14 Aband. 2006 Aband. 1981 Chillicothe BNSF Terminal CP 1850 TRAINS: Bill Metzger Middle Dunlap BNSF CP 1844 RI Toluca Wenona Kinsman Verona (C&A) Logistics Park Grove 150th St. 170th St. 170th Aband. 1982 NS Kankakee UP (C&A) 160th St. Tie plant Amtrak at Galesburg Effective Jan. 14, 2014 Chicago Intermodal 100 E BNSF Brookfield Sub IAIS Sub La Rose Branch (NYC) M&StL 2 (RI) Facility Cameron Jct. 180th St. Train Depart From To to Kansas City, Mo. Aband. 2000 M&StL Washburn Rutland Ancona UP Joliet Sub 15 (Cameron (UP, ATK) (CB&Q) Farmington Aband. 2000 Alta RTN Gardner (ATK) (C&A) N Waterman 380 7:38 AM Quincy Chicago CB&Q ICG (C&A) Aband. 1930 NS (WAB) Dwight Mazonia KSR Connection) Graham Graham Cutoff Illinois River Chillicothe Sub BNSF built 1996 MP 166.0 381 10:22 AM Chicago Quincy Aband. 1938 UP Peoria Aband. 1980 Aband. 1985 Aband. ca. 1942 MP 168.4 Built 1907 (CB&Q) Sub (CNW)Keller (UP, ATK) (ATSF) (ATK) West 6 11:31 AM Emeryville Chicago BNSF Peoria Sub IC ATSF ICG (C&A) Waterman to Peoria (CB&Q) Aband. 1985 Aband. 1982 Aband. 1980 Ottumwa Sub Saluda 4 12:08 PM Los Angeles Chicago 0 Scale 30 miles PIR (RI) BNSF Chillicothe Sub Cornell MP 165.2 Peoria the “Transcon” Built 1855 Galesburg hump yard was built in 1906 MP 168.1 5 4:38 PM Chicago Emeryville Opened by Atchison, (UP, ATK) (CB&Q) by CB&Q, rebuilt in 1942 to a double 3 5:38 PM Chicago Los Angeles Topeka & Santa Fe hump classification yard, and rebuilt to from Kansas City to Railroad St. CP 1705 CP 1699 382 6:56 PM Quincy Chicago Cameron a single hump yard by BNSF in 1984. Built 1853 Chicago in 1888 (UP) Brookfield Sub 383 8:42 PM Chicago Quincy Ex-CB&Q mileposts begin at (UP, ATK) (CB&Q) METRA Aurora Union Station; ex-ATSF mileposts Congress IR has trackage rights BNSF Mendota Sub BNSF Chicago Sub Transportation BNSF West begin at Dearborn Station Park Center Chicago IT 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 BNSF Aurora Sub Yard 30 25 over Mendota Sub from 20 15 10 1 CN CN 5 Montgomery to Zearing BNSF Nifa Branch Eola Terminal To UP To Global 1 To Union To Station 35 IHB UP 14th To Yard St. and CN West Yard Hills Western Ave. Western Cicero West Cicero Intermodal Facility Route 59 Naperville Clarendon Westmont Hinsdale Highlands 1 1 Ave. Stone Brookfield Hollywood Riverside Berwyn BNSF Mendota Sub 2 2 1 1 2 2 (CB&Q) 3 3 4 IR Naperville MP 57 MP 44 West Eola Plano Aurora East Yard Eola IT Leland Meriden Earlville Bristol Both main lines are operated Lisle Sandwich Cicero Yard Features between MP 30 and Ave. CN BRC Electrics Somonauk Mendota Ave. La Harlem by CTC and signaled bidirectionally Park Grove Springs Western 35 are exaggerated for clarity Yard Ave. ADM shuttle loadershuttle Greenwood Western CN Fairview Belmont Montgomery CSX NS Hinsdale Downers Grange MP 27.2 Congress La Vergne Union Ave. East To BRC St. Halsted NS GM Yard To Ransom Lake Ransom To Power Plant Power Pequot CP 496 CP 371 Logistics CP 482 1 1 Yard Joliet BNSF Chillicothe Sub 2 2 (ATSF) Continued at To UP CN MP 86 MP 23 MP 68 CP 46 Corwith Yard Corwith MP 47 CP 151 CP 176 CP 173 CP 187 BRC lower right Global 4 CN CP 155 IHB CSX CP 915 Harbor Romeo Verona UP McCook Kernan Mazon Plaines Pulaski Corwith Spur Ransom Joliet CP 134 Lorenzo Coal City Coal Kinsman NS RRX Lockport UD Tower 5 Streator 10 GM Yard Lead GM Yard BNSF Argonne 25 35 45 30 50 40 Drummond 70 Junction Yard Union Oil Co. 85 80 55 20 Blodgett Rd. Blodgett 65 60 Grainco loader shuttle 75 90 UP CN Steel Thomas Willow Springs Willow Millsdale Intermodal Facility Intermodal Logistics Park Logistics Chicago METRA/CSX BNSF Ottumwa Sub BNSF Mendota Sub 85 155 150 145 140 135 130 125 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 The Cameron bridge is 180 UP CP 1850 CP 1844 at BN milepost 171.9, the GI Zearing 160 ATSF milepost is 186.4 River Big Resources plant ethanol 1 Barstow Sub Barstow 170 2 Clay 3 UP has trackage rights UP IAIS Buda Galva MP 126 BNSF Ottumwa Sub MP 143 Detectors on the Both main lines are operated IR Malden on BNSF main lines Kansas Altona Wataga Wyanet West Kewanee (CB&Q) Chillicothe Sub Kewanee by CTC and signaled bidirectionally Arlington City to Chicago East Kewanee Continued at talk on defect only Neponset Princeton upper left BNSF Chillicothe Sub Graham CP 1705 CP 1699 1 1 (ATSF) Cameron 2 2 Yost UP Laura Peoria Sub Peoria Leeds Graham Cutoff Graham Illinois River MP 132 Galesburg Yard Galesburg IAIS Galesburg MP 168 Ruff Galesburg Yard Galesburg Toluca MP 146 Monica Brookfield Sub Brookfield Wilbern Ancona CP 1395 Edelstein 175 155 135 115 95 170 150 130 110 160 125 165 145 105 140 120 100 Princeville West West Chillicothe Chillicothe Seneca Food Seneca Williamsfield Ruff Bros.
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