Chicago Junction Railway

[2] In December 1865, the new Union Stock Yards and railroad opened,[3] the latter beginning at the Illinois Central near 43rd Street and heading west, largely along 40th Street, to the Chicago and Great Eastern, and then turning north to parallel the latter company's line in Campbell Avenue until it reached the Chicago and North Western Railway at Ogden Avenue.

[3] Subsidiary[citation needed] Chicago and Indiana State Line Railway was incorporated July 13, 1880, and soon constructed connections from the south border of the stock yards to the Grand Trunk Junction Railway and Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad, and from the north border along both sides of the South Fork South Branch Chicago River to near Archer Avenue.

[4] On December 15, 1897, the USY&T leased its railroad property to the Chicago and Indiana State Line.

On August 26, 1958, the CR&I acquired the property of the Chicago Junction and lessor USY&T,[10] and in 1976 the Consolidated Rail Corporation acquired the CR&I's lines, except for the old Chicago Junction east of Prairie Avenue in Kenwood, which had been abandoned in the 1960s.

[citation needed] The Norfolk Southern Railway now owns and operates the line as the CR&I Industrial Track, except east of the Chicago Line,[11] where Chicago Rail Link operates it east to Metra's Rock Island District and the rest has been abandoned.