IHB Mannheim Rd 1986 6
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 just past the bridge over the expressway, looking towards the IC overpass in the distance.
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 6
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 just past the bridge over the expressway, looking towards the IC overpass in the distance.
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