Kenton Yard
Kilbourn Avenue and Cermak Road, North Lawndale

Service Notes:

Located:

Metropolitan Division, Douglas Park branch

Quick Facts:

Address: TBD
Established: 1910
Yard Area: unknown
Rebuilt: n/a
Status: Demolished

 

The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad established a yard at Kenton on the Douglas Park branch in 1910. The Kenton Yard was used for materials storage and interchange with the adjacent Belt Railway. The Kenton Yard replaced a facility on the Garfield Park branch used for the same purposes from 1895 to circa 1910

The Kenton material yard was closed on October 2 1952. Crews began removal of abandoned Kenton yard tracks and switch on May 12, 1954.

 

 

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