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Chicago Switching => General Discussion => Topic started by: TBurke on July 06, 2018, 10:28:05 AM

Title: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
Post by: TBurke on July 06, 2018, 10:28:05 AM

Chicago Junction is taking over from Chicago Terminal.

I wonder how Chicago Junction got the rights to use this name as the original Chicago Junction on the South Side is now part of NS?  Normally Class I carriers like NS like to keep the rights to use the heritage names and symbols.

https://www.stb.gov/filings/all.nsf/ba7f93537688b8e5852573210004b318/8a3697b0d0629093852582820051e606/$FILE/245642.pdf

Title: Re: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
Post by: D. Kaniuk on July 06, 2018, 11:03:25 PM

Chicago Junction and Chicago river & Indiana (former subsidaries of New York Central , then PennCentral), were dissolved and merged into Conrail. As per Government overview. Picture of locomotive : http://casr.dhke.com/casr245.htm

Title: Re: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
Post by: TBurke on July 06, 2018, 11:21:21 PM

"The Chicago Junction Railway operated a switching and terminal railroad in Chicago, connecting the Union Stock Yards with most other railroads in the city. It also briefly operated an outer belt, which became the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad in 1907. The New York Central Railroad acquired control of the company in 1922 and leased it to subsidiary Chicago River and Indiana Railroad. The line is now owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway."

Source = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Junction_Railway

Your post also does not respond to NS holding onto heritage names as shown by their heritage locomotive fleet.

Title: Re: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
Post by: D. Kaniuk on July 07, 2018, 11:39:29 PM

NS does not have claim to heritage lines of the Conrail. When the government formed Conrail, the corporate name of Chicago Junction disappeared.  The tracks are still around and the property titles still say Chicago Junction. The operating company went away. NYC and Penn were reincorporated when CSX and NS were cutting up Conrail.  Conrail was a quasi government line until the railroad became profitable and paid back the government loans. Then Conrail issued stocks and bonds as a regular corporation. The former railroad names that make up NYC and Penn RR are not owned by NS or CSX. Conrail is still an active railroad (called Conrail shared assets).
A check of the State files show that the Chicago Junctions was incorporated on 4/13/2018.

Title: Re: UP Gives Chicago Terminal the Boot in Elk Grove Village-New Operator
Post by: TBurke on August 08, 2018, 03:39:52 PM

Photos of Chicago Junction-

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/30063134668/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/30063135718/in/dateposted-public/