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The IHB
is the largest switch carrier in the U.S. with 54 miles of mainline track.
The IHB provides a wide variety of services, including industrial switching
with 160 customers. The IHB interchanges daily with 16 other rail carriers
in Chicago. A growing fleet of approximately 1,400 freight cars is geared
predominately to the steel industry. The industrial traffic base includes
4 of the 5 largest steel producers in the U.S. and a large aluminum processor,
oil refineries, corn millers, grain elevators, chemical plants, warehouses,
lumber transloading, and bulk transfer operations. The IHB also operates
as an intermediate switch carrier between the 12 trunk-line railroads
for traffic interchanged between them in Chicago.
The IHB main
line circles Chicago from near OHare to Northwest Indiana. Its primary
yard, Blue Island at Riverdale, IL lies in about the center of the railroad.
Other major yards includes Gibson (in Hammond, IN) which only classifies
cars of new autos and Michigan Avenue Yard (in East Chicago) which serves
the extensive steel plants which accounts for IHBs primary business.
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Latest update: 02/25/2003.
Official website at http://www.ihbrr.com/.
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