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The line comprises 320 miles (510 km) of track—30 miles (48 km) of single mainline track, 24 miles (39 km) of double-main track and 266 miles (428 km) of additional yard and side track—starting northwest of Chicago in Franklin Park, Illinois at CPKC's Elgin Subdivision, traveling southeast around the city to its headquarters in Hammond, Indiana.
Chicago Junction Railway: NYC: 1898 1907 Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad: Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad: GTW: 1873 1879 Indiana Railway: Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway: EJE: 1895 1938 Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: MILW: 1921 1928 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company is a corporation of the State of Indiana, having its principal office at Gibson, Ind. It was incorporated originally as the East Chicago Belt Railroad Company. No accounting records of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad were obtained for the period from the date of its organization to June 30, 1907.
The Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad operated an extensive number of interlocking tower system on its system. From the north, towers were as follows: 12th Street tower, 15th Street tower, 16th Street tower, 21st Street tower, 40th Street tower, 47th Street tower, Ford Street tower (59th Street), 74th Street tower, 81st Street tower, Oakdale (later remote controlled by 81st Street), Pullman ...
The Seagraves’ began streetcar operations on a route between East Chicago and Indiana Harbor in September 1903. [5] Grading for the railroad was begun in St. Joseph County during 1903, but the Rich Man's Panic put an end to the work and apparently the Seagraves’ interest in the company. [6]
The Porter Subdivision [2] is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the Chicago, Illinois, area.Formerly a part of the main line of the Michigan Central Railroad, it now connects CSX's former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line and the Chicago Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad from the east with the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad towards Blue Island, Illinois.
Conrail acquired the line in 1976, and later sold some of it to the Norfolk Southern Railway to relieve that company's ex-Nickel Plate Road main line. CSX Transportation acquired the entire line in the 1999 breakup of Conrail, and began to make improvements, including new crossing signals, paving crossings, and weeding the railroad.
The Indiana Rail Road (reporting mark INRD) is a United States Class II railroad, originally operating over former Illinois Central Railroad trackage from Newton, Illinois, to Indianapolis, Indiana, a distance of 155 miles (249 km).