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Buena Yard
Buena Avenue and Kenmore Avenue, Buena Park (Uptown)

Service Notes:

Located:

North Side Division

Serviced:

All routes: Freight interchange

Quick Facts:

Address: TBD
Established: TBD
Yard Area: unknown
Rebuilt: n/a
Status: Demolished

The Buena Interchange Yard is where the "L" exchanged freight cars with the Milwaukee Road and its predecessors when the "L" provided freight service on the North Side, north of Montrose, between 1920 and 1973.

This Chicago-L.org article is a stub. It will be expanded in the future as resources allow.

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While on a fan trip, car 4272 leads a four-car train of 4000s into the Buena Interchange Yard next to Graceland Cemetery south of Montrose Avenue on August 6, 1972. Freight was interchanged here between the Milwaukee Road and various customers along the North Side main line, Evanston, and Skokie branches beginning in 1920. Less than a year later, freight service would cease and the yard eventually fell into disuse. (Photo by Bruno Berzins, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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A four-car fantrip train of 4000-series cars, led by car 4453, sits in the Buena Yard, looking north on August 6, 1972. The Buena Yard is an interchange point with the Milwaukee Road where the CTA's electric freight locomotives pick up their loads. These locomotives run off overhead current, hence the train's use of trolley poles in the yard, which has no third rail. (Photo by Bruno Berzins, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

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Turning around for the trip back north to the elevated, car 4453 is loading fantrip passengers on August 6, 1972. Why the blue sign announcing White Sox baseball is on the train is uncertain; it may just be for novelty purposes for the fantrip. Note the overhead wire and latticed poles in the Buena Interchange Yard. (Photo by Bruno Berzins, Collection of Joe Testagrose)

Located:
	North Side Division
Serviced:
	All routes: Freight interchange

	cta4272j.jpg (105k) While on a fan trip, car 4272 leads a four-car train of 4000s into the Buena Interchange Yard next to Graceland Cemetery south of Montrose Avenue on August 6, 1972. Freight was interchanged here between the Milwaukee Road and various customers along the North Side main line, Evanston, and Skokie branches beginning in 1920. Less than a year later, freight service would cease and the yard eventually fell into disuse. (Photo by Bruno Berzins, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
	cta4453.jpg (143k) A four-car fantrip train of 4000-series cars, led by car 4453, sits in the Buena Yard, looking north on August 6, 1972. The Buena Yard is an interchange point with the Milwaukee Road where the CTA's electric freight locomotives pick up their loads. These locomotives run off overhead current, hence the train's use of trolley poles in the yard, which has no third rail. (Photo by Bruno Berzins, Collection of Joe Testagrose)
	cta4453b.jpg (106k) Turning around for the trip back north to the elevated, car 4453 is loading fantrip passengers on August 6, 1972. Why the blue sign announcing White Sox baseball is on the train is uncertain; it may just be for novelty purposes for the fantrip. Note the overhead wire and latticed poles in the Buena Interchange Yard. (Photo by Bruno Berzins, Collection of Joe Testagrose)