IHB Mannheim Rd 1986 5
Continuing yesterday's series on the CA&E Cook County branch (which left the mainline at Bellwood and extended to the Mt. Carmel cemetery two miles away). This branch ran along Mannheim Road for several blocks. A portion of the branch was one of several segments of the CA&E retained for freight service after abandonment in 1959. The IHB took over some of the trackage, and the IC also built a connection down to it from their line that passed overhead..
The trackage was taken out of service in 1986- when I took these photos that year, construction was underway removing the old grade crossing across Mannheim and cutting new driveways across the branch. This view looks south over the road/rail bridge (street trackage) over the expressway.
Also, check out this great set of 1980 photos on the branch from the Great Third Rail website: www.greatthirdrail.org/routes/mt_carmel.html
IHB Mannheim Rd 1986 5
Continuing yesterday's series on the CA&E Cook County branch (which left the mainline at Bellwood and extended to the Mt. Carmel cemetery two miles away). This branch ran along Mannheim Road for several blocks. A portion of the branch was one of several segments of the CA&E retained for freight service after abandonment in 1959. The IHB took over some of the trackage, and the IC also built a connection down to it from their line that passed overhead..
The trackage was taken out of service in 1986- when I took these photos that year, construction was underway removing the old grade crossing across Mannheim and cutting new driveways across the branch. This view looks south over the road/rail bridge (street trackage) over the expressway.
Also, check out this great set of 1980 photos on the branch from the Great Third Rail website: www.greatthirdrail.org/routes/mt_carmel.html