I'm looking for information on the B&O (later the B&OCT)'s Brookdale Branch on the south side of Chicago (constructed prior to 1900) which ran from roughly 95th & Baltimore to 70th & Kenwood. From that point north the B&O had a connection to and trackage rights on the Illinois Central to downtown Chicago. The connection at 70th Street was severed in the mid 1920s when the IC elevated its right-of-way in preparation for the electrification of the commuter service. After that, the B&O trains accessed another downtown terminal via a connection at 95th & Baltimore.
Here's a google map of the line: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8& ... 2&t=h&z=13
I'm also interested in the route of the line from the area of 95th Street in Chicago as it paralleled other railroads southeastward to Pine Junction (Gary, Indiana), and the date(s) of abandonment.
Here are a few links that google and other searches have found:
1929 USGS map for north end of line: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/c ... -1929.html
1929 USGS map for south end of line: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/c ... -1929.html
Chicago Railroads 1950: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory. ... /1774.html
Yahoo Groups 2009 discussion of Brookdale line:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/C ... sage/51344
B&OCT predecessor lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_an ... c_Railroad
Brookdale line specificly mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore, ... go_Railway
ICC Valuation report 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... o_Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad By Kirk Reynolds, Dave Oroszi on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=bfjp4e ... ad&f=false
Thanx!
Here's a google map of the line: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8& ... 2&t=h&z=13
I'm also interested in the route of the line from the area of 95th Street in Chicago as it paralleled other railroads southeastward to Pine Junction (Gary, Indiana), and the date(s) of abandonment.
Here are a few links that google and other searches have found:
1929 USGS map for north end of line: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/c ... -1929.html
1929 USGS map for south end of line: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/c ... -1929.html
Chicago Railroads 1950: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory. ... /1774.html
Yahoo Groups 2009 discussion of Brookdale line:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/C ... sage/51344
B&OCT predecessor lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_an ... c_Railroad
Brookdale line specificly mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore, ... go_Railway
ICC Valuation report 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... o_Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad By Kirk Reynolds, Dave Oroszi on Google Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=bfjp4e ... ad&f=false
Thanx!
