Trains historically would use B&O (now CSX) Altenheim Subdivision between Grand Central Station and Forest Park. In 1996, Metra began operating over this line, using the former Milwaukee Road line between Chicago Union Station and Franklin Park (Tower B-12).
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Radio Frequency - 160.920 (AAR Channel 54)
Dispatcher - 161.295 (AAR Channel 79)
Direction is northward from Chicago to Antioch
Distance is from Chicago (Grand Central Station)
10.9 Madison St. (connection-CSX)
11.0 Forest Park
15.2 Park
15.5 Tower B-12 (CP crossing/junction-Metra)
15.8 BELMONT AVE.
15.9 Junction 16
16.5 CP Lead
17.0 Junction 17
17.4 SCHILLER PARK
17.8 Schiller Park Yard
18.6 ROSEMONT
18.7 Junction 19
19.8 O'HARE TRANSFER
20.4 Junction 20
20.9 O'Hare
22.8 Des Plaines
23.4 Deval (UP crossing/remote-CY)
24.7 Prospect
26.6 PROSPECT HEIGHTS
27.4 South Wheeling
29.9 WHEELING
30.2 North Wheeling
32.0 BUFFALO GROVE
34.7 PRAIRIE VIEW
35.7 VERNON HILLS
37.9 Leithton (CN crossing)
38.6 Trafton (connection-Leithton Subdivision)
39.6 MUNDELEIN
40.5 Lomond
43.4 PRAIRIE CROSSING
44.0 Grayslake (CP crossing)
46.3 Ram
46.5 WASHINGTON ST.
48.5 ROUND LAKE BEACH
50.7 LAKE VILLA
52.5 North Lake Villa
53.1 Lake Villa
55.7 ANTIOCH
1 and 2 tracks, CTC in use, controlled by Dispatcher Desk #15 in Homewood IL.
(Click for diagram of Chicago Union Station.)