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The railroad's largest yard is Blue Island located in Riverdale, Illinois. [2] The Gibson Yard, located in Hammond, Indiana, is arguably the largest automobile traffic switching operation in the United States. Other yards include Burnham, Calumet City, Alsip, Argo, LaGrange, Rose, Norpaul, Whiting, Michigan Avenue, and Lakefront.
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.
The Barr Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Indiana and Illinois.The line runs from Willow Creek (a neighborhood in Portage, Indiana), west to just west of Blue Island, Illinois, [2] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) line.
Blue Island, Illinois: Porter, Indiana: Saginaw Subdivision: Toledo, Ohio: Saginaw, Michigan: Since 2016, the section from Mt. Morris to Saginaw has been owned by the Lake State Railway. The Plymouth to Mt. Morris line was leased to Lake State Railway starting in March 2019. Saginaw Terminal Subdivision: Sarnia Subdivision: Chatham, ON: Sarnia, ON
Constructed by the Hammond and Blue Island Railroad Company of Indiana— Whiting, Ind., to Indiana-Illinois State line, 1896, 3.470 miles. Constructed by the Hammond and Blue Island Railroad Company— Blue Island, Ill., to Indiana-Illinois State line, 1896, 10.590 miles. Constructed by the Chicago, Hammond and Western Railroad Company—
The Chicago and Southern headed northwest from Thornton, crossing the Illinois Central Railroad at Harvey, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad at Blue Island, and the Chicago and Alton Railroad at Corwith before curving east along 26th Street, crossing the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway and ending just west of Western ...
The entire railroad of 4.051 miles of the Blue Island Railroad extending from Blue Island, Ill., to Calumet, Ill., was constructed by the Illinois Central under an agreement dated September 1, 1891, and was completed for operation April 18, 1892.
It is the last station for Blue Island Branch trains before those split off of the main line for Blue Island. As of 2018, the station is the 37th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,136 weekday boardings. [1] The South Shore Line diverges to Indiana immediately south of this station. It had previously stopped at ...