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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.
East Chicago Belt Railroad: NYC: 1896 1907 Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad: Eaton and Hamilton Railroad: PRR: 1854 1862 Richmond and Miami Railway: Eel River Railroad: PRR: 1877 1897 Logansport and Toledo Railway: Elkhart and Western Railroad: NYC: 1888 1915 New York Central Railroad: Elwood, Anderson and Lapelle Railroad: 1897 1929 N/A Erie ...
The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad was incorporated May 16, 1896, under the general laws of the State of Indiana, as the East Chicago Belt Railroad Company, for the purpose of constructing a railroad in the vicinity of Hammond, Ind. On June 29, 1907, the name was changed to Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company.
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 Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is an artificial waterway on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in East Chicago, Indiana, which connects the Grand Calumet River to Lake Michigan. It consists of two branch canals , the 1.25 miles (2.01 km) Lake George Branch and the 2 miles (3.2 km) long Grand Calumet River Branch which join to form the ...
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).
The neighborhood is bisected by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. The area west of the tracks is referred to as Calumet proper, or as "West Calumet" [1] (a term also often used specifically for the now-shuttered housing complex at the neighborhood's southwest corner). The area east of the tracks is known as "East Calumet."
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