User:Lost on Belmont/Chicago 'L'

Clark Junction

Vautravers building

Vautravers building

Market Street branch

Lake Street Elevated Randolph Market Terminal

Marshfield Junction

Laflin Laflin St. (Ashland somewhere) Marshfield Ave. Marshfield Paulina St. Hermitage Ave.

Cuyler

Cuyler Avenue
Lake St. "L" Randolph St. Madison Jackson Harrison

North Side main line

Date	Event
May 1, 1885	C&E opens from Calvary to Larrabee
August 9, 1890	C&E transferred to Milwaukee Road
December 30, 1899–January 2, 1900	NW Elevated operates token service from a partially completed Wrightwood to the Loop. Only one track is in operation. The city shuts the operation down and arrests a train crew
May 31, 1900	NW Elevated begins running from Wilson to the Loop. Trains run left-handed
June 6, 1900	Addison and Larrabee open
June 7, 1900	Grace opens
June 9, 1900	Armitage, Clark, Diversey, and Webster open
September 1900	Halsted and Sedgwick switch from express/local to local-only stations
1905	Willow opens
1906	Oak opens
March 5, 1907	Lower Wilson opens
1907	NW Elevated opens the Ravenswood branch. Transfer bridge is added to Belmont
May 15, 1908	NW Elevated begins using Milwaukee Road trackage north of Wilson. Milwaukee Road ceases passenger service north of Sheridan Park
November 17, 1908	North Water Terminal opens
August 23, 1908	Howard opens
April 22, 1914	Work to elevated the tracks north of Wilson begins
1915	Thorndale opens
January 1916	Tracks north of Wilson shifted to a wooden trestle
June 1917	Milwaukee Road ceases passenger service to Sheridan Park
1918	Edgewater Beach (Berwyn) opens
1919	Howard Yard opens
1920	Buena Interchange Yard opens
1921	Grand opens, Kinzie closes
1922	4 track elevation north of Wilson opens
February 27, 1923	Lawrence opens
December 5, 1930	Merchandise Mart opens
May 7, 1942	Willow closes
October 17, 1943	State Street Subway opens
August 1, 1949	Lower Wilson closes
November 30, 1959–April 19, 1961	Wilson bottleneck removed
1959	Wilson west island platform removed from service
January 21, 1963	East and west platforms at Wilson taken out of service
1963	North Water Terminal demolished
September 20, 1970	Grand closes
April 30, 1973	Buena Interchange Yard closes with the end of 'L' freight
1974	Shop added to Howard Yard
1975	Wilson west island platform demolished
1994	Addison is rebuilt as an island platform between tracks 2 and 3
October 26, 1996	Wilson Yard and Shops burns down
March 6, 2015–September 20, 2017	Wilson reconstructed
November 19, 2021	Clark Junction flyover opens
	NW Elevated switches to right-hand running

Development of the North Side Main Line

1885–1900	1900-1907
North Side Main Line in 1885 edit C&ERR to Calvary Rogers Park North Edgewater Edgewater Argyle Park Sheridan Park Buena Park C&ERR to Union Station	North Side Main Line in 1900 edit C&ERR to Central Birchwood Rogers Park North Edgewater Edgewater Argyle Park Sheridan Park │ Wilson Wilson Yard and Shops Buena Park │ Buena C&ERR to Union Station Sheridan Grace Addison Vautravers Building Clark Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division Church Curve Chicago Kinzie Chicago River Loop
	Northwestern Elevated Railroad begins operation from the Loop to Wilson
1907–1908	1908–19XX
North Side Main Line in 1907 edit CM&St.P to Central Birchwood Rogers Park North Edgewater Edgewater Argyle Park Sheridan Park │ Wilson Wilson Yard and Shops Buena Park │ Buena CM&St.P to Union Station Sheridan Grace Addison Vautravers Building Clark Ravenswood branch to Kimball Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Willow (Opened 1905) Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division Church Curve Oak (Opened 1906) Chicago Kinzie Chicago River Loop	North Side Main Line in 1908 edit NWERR to Evanston Howard Birchwood Rogers Park Hayes North Edgewater Edgewater Argyle Park Wilson Wilson Yard and Shops Buena C&ERR to Union Station Sheridan Grace Addison Vautravers Building Clark Ravenswood branch to Kimball Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Willow Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division Church Curve Oak Chicago Kinzie North Water Terminal Chicago River Loop
Willow opens in 1905, Oak opens in 1906, Ravenswood branch opens, lower Wilson added, Chicago and Evanston Railroad merged into the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul (Milwaukee Road)	Service extended into Evanston over the Milwaukee Road trackage
1914	1922–19XX
	North Side Main Line in 1922 edit NWERR to Linden Howard Yard Howard Jarvis Morse Loyola Granville Thorndale Bryn Mawr Berwyn Argyle Wilson Wilson Yard and Shops Buena Milwaukee Road freight service Sheridan Grace Addison Clark Ravenswood branch to Kimball Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Willow Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division Church Curve Oak Chicago Grand (opened 1921) Kinzie (closed 1921) North Water Terminal Loop
Trackage north of Wilson elevated onto temporary wooden trestle	Milwaukee Road trackage elevated
19XX-19XX
edit NWERR to Linden Howard Yard (1919) Howard Jarvis Morse Loyola Granville Thorndale Bryn Mawr Berwyn Argyle Lawrence (1923) Wilson Wilson Yard and Shops Buena Interchange Yard Buena Milwaukee Road freight service Sheridan Grace Addison Clark Ravenswood branch to Kimball Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Willow Portal Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division State Street subway Church Curve Oak Chicago Grand Merchandise Mart North Water Terminal Loop
State Street Subway opens
1949–1958	1958–1963
edit NWERR to Linden Howard Yard Howard Jarvis Morse Loyola Granville Thorndale Bryn Mawr Berwyn Argyle Lawrence Wilson Wilson Yard and Shops Buena Interchange Yard Buena Milwaukee Road freight service Sheridan Grace Addison Clark Ravenswood branch to Kimball Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Willow Portal Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division State Street subway Church Curve Oak Chicago Grand Merchandise Mart North Water Terminal Loop	User:Lost on Belmont/NSML (1958)
Local/express service ended, stations closed	Wilson bottleneck removed
19XX–19XX	19XX-19XX
	North Side Main Line 2021-Present edit To Linden and Skokie Howard Yard Howard Jarvis Morse Loyola Granville Thorndale Bryn Mawr Berwyn Argyle Lawrence Wilson Buena Interchange Yard Buena Sheridan Grace Addison Clark Clark Junction to Ravenswood branch Belmont Wellington Diversey Wrightwood Fullerton Webster Armitage Willow Halsted Larrabee Sedgwick Schiller Division State Street Subway Oak Chicago Grand Merchandise Mart North Water Terminal Loop
North Shore Line abandoned, outer tracks (1 and 4) removed from service