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Radio Frequency - 161.355 (AAR Channel 83)
Direction is eastward from Kensington to South Bend
Distance is from original South Bend station
75.5 KENSINGTON
75.3 Kensington (CN crossing/junction-Metra)
74.7 Griffin
74.3 Ice House
73.8 Westlake
73.1 Calumet Port
72.7 Calumet Harbor
72.2 Dooley
70.7 HEGEWISCH (gauntlet/high level platforms)
70.5 Burnham (NS crossing/remote-NS Cummings Drawbridge)
70.0 West End State Line Siding
69.4 Burnham Yard
69.2 State (IHB crossing/remote-IHB dispatcher)
68.5 HAMMOND (gauntlet/high level platforms)
66.3 EAST CHICAGO (gauntlet/high level platform)
64.9 Parrish
63.9 Parrish Siding
63.8 Cline
61.7 CLARK ROAD
61.5 Clark
60.6 Ambridge
59.7 Buchanan Street
58.8 GARY
58.1 Emerson (east end double track)
57.5 Goff Jct. (EJ&E crossing)
55.0 MILLER
54.0 Wilson-West End (west end double track)
51.5 Pauls Crossover
50.8 OGDEN DUNES
47.5 Wilson-East End (east end double track)
46.5 Bailly-West End
45.1 Dune Acres
44.5 Bailly-East End
43.7 Tremont West (siding)
43.7 DUNE PARK (high level platform/freight trains use siding)
43.0 Tremont East (siding)
41.8 Furnessville
40.4 Keiser
39.3 BEVERLY SHORES
38.6 Tamarack West (siding)
37.9 Tamarack East (siding)
36.0 Power West (siding)
35.2 Power East (siding)
34.5 10th Street (Amtrak crossing/remote-Amtrak-Chicago)
33.9 MICHIGAN CITY
33.0 School Street
32.3 CSS&SB crossing
32.2 SHOPS (Carroll Ave.)
31.6 Karwick Road
29.7 Davis
26.5 Andry
23.3 Tee Lake
21.9 Smith
18.9 Birchim (siding)
16.1 Lake Park
15.1 HUDSON LAKE
13.3 New Carlisle
10.4 Olive (siding)
5.4 Fisher
3.2 Grandview
1.9 Bendix
0.0 SOUTH BEND AIRPORT (high level platform/end of tracks)
2 tracks from Kensington to Emerson, 1 track from Emerson to South Bend. CTC in use, controlled by dispatcher in Michigan City.
Gauntlet segments exist for high level platforms at Hegewisch, Hammond, and East Chicago. At each platform, one set of rails allows freight trains with wider cars to clear the platforms. As the second track is added between Gary and Michigan City, additional stations will include gauntlet segments. High level platforms also exist at Dune Park, where freight trains use the siding, and at South Bend Airport, where the tracks end.
A major project has been under way, to add a second track between Gary and Michigan City, and eliminate street running in Michigan City. This track diagram was updated in November 2023, after completion of this project between Dune Park and Michigan City.
All substations were constructed as part of the 1926 electrification, except Carroll along the East Chicago bypass constructed in 1956, and Hegewisch in 1983, providing additional electrical capacity with the introduction of new air conditioned cars.