coal service on Lakewood Branch

[mark_k]

Regarding customers which received coal shipments along the Lakewood Branch:

Were most defunct by 1970?

Did they primarily utilize elevated trestles to unload the coal from hoppers?

[TBurke]

The last coal movement for a coal yard of which I am aware on the C&E North Line was in 1973 when the Milwaukee Road picked up a load of empties from the CTA on the last run north of School Street at Buena Yard.  A customer at the very end of the C&E South Line just past Grand received an occasional carload of coal for their own use.

The remains of a coal trestle can be seen at the former Roth Coal site north of Cortland Avenue and east of the river.

There were coal yards on the C&E South Line off Kingsbury and also on Goose Island at one time, among other locations.

A 1979 internal report by the Milwaukee Road did not list any coal yards on the C&E line so presumably they were gone by then.

[mark_k]

Tom,

-- I don\'t see the Roth Coal site listed on the 1973 industries list. I\'ll assume it was gone by then. Was it near C&E Junction?

-- re: CTA coal deliveries. Was it for one of their power facilities?