RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION

UNION PACIFIC

Villa Grove Subdivision

FORMERLY Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
(C&EI Danville Subdivision)
CONSTRUCTED 1871 by Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad
DOUBLE TRACK constructed 1890-1895
ABS installed 1905
COLOR LIGHT ABS installed 1946
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: Danville Flyer/1971

Amtrak's Cardinal and Hoosier State use this route as far south as Thornton Jct., route south of there has been freight only since Amtrak's formation in 1971.

Radio Frequency - 160.410 (AAR Channel 20)

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is southward from Dolton Jct. to Crete
Distance is from Chicago

16.7 Dolton Jct. (tower-CSX/IHB crossing)
17.2 144th Street
17.6 145th Street
18.0 Yard Center
18.1 Sibley Blvd.
19.4 159th Street
19.5 South Holland
19.8 162nd Street
20.1 Thornton Jct. (junction-CSX)
21.7 Thornton
23.4 Glenwood
26.0 Twelfth Street
27.0 Jay (CN crossing/remote-CN dispatcher)
27.8 Chicago Heights
27.9 Sauk Trail
28.8 Steger
30.4 Crete

2 tracks, CTC in use, controlled by Villa Grove Subdivision Dispatcher, Omaha.

TRACK DIAGRAM

LOST STATIONS

Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.

INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.