Bedford Park, Illinois

Midway, Clearing, and a CSX ramp

Bedford Park sits in Cook County just southwest of Midway Airport, around 71st Street and Cicero Avenue, with I-55 (the Stevenson) to the north and I-294 not far west. It is a small village with a large industrial footprint: food plants, warehouses, and the kind of docks that take both rail containers and over-the-road trailers.

CSX Bedford Park is a public CSX intermodal facility in this village (listed at 7000 W. 71st Street in public terminal directories). CSX also operates a 59th Street ramp in the city of Chicago, a short drive east. East Coast and other CSX traffic into the Chicago market commonly uses these two facilities. We can pick up from or deliver to both. Naming them is not a CSX contract claim.

Next door is the Clearing area, including the Belt Railway of Chicago Clearing Yard, a well-known classification yard. That is a rail yard, not an intermodal ramp on our list, and we do not treat it as one. The practical freight geography for shippers is still the same neighborhood: dense industrial docks, Midway cargo activity, and tight local streets that reward a driver who already knows 71st, Cicero and Harlem.

From Mokena we typically reach Bedford Park on I-80 to I-294 or up toward I-55, depending on the time of day. The work that fits this area is CSX ramp drayage, short local deliveries to Clearing-area and Midway-area docks, cross-dock into outbound trailers, and appointment-heavy food or industrial receivers. If your container is at 59th Street instead, the plan is similar but the gate is in Chicago; see our Chicago page.

Air-export pickups and Midway-adjacent docks sometimes pair with this same geography. If a load has an airport cutoff, tell us that window when you quote.