CHICAGO'S INTERLOCKINGS

GRAND TRUNK WESTERN

Elsdon Subdivision

Now owned by CSX.

Double track line.


47TH STREET
Tower listed with Chicago & Western Indiana

49TH STREET
Tower listed with Pennsylvania Railroad

HAYFORD
Tower listed with Belt Railway of Chicago

ASHBURN
Tower listed with Wabash

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BLUE ISLAND
Mechanical interlocking installed 1890
Interlocking rebuilt 1898
New tower constructed 1935
Closed June 8, 2013

Crossing and junction with CSX (former Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal) and Indiana Harbor Belt.

HARVEY
Mechanical interlocking installed 1893

Former crossing with Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Heights Subdivision. The crossing has since been reconfigured into a junction, with all trackage now owned by CSX, and with connecting tracks to CN's former Illinois Central Markham Yard. The former Illinois Central, now CN and Metra Electric, cross over these railroads to the east on a bridge. Prior to 1925, Illinois Central crossed at grade.

THORNTON JCT.
Mechanical interlocking installed 1892
Electric interlocking installed 1915
Closed May 1, 1989, demolished August 28, 1989

Crossing with Union Pacific former Chicago & Eastern Illinois main line. Amtrak's Cardinal and Hoosier State switch railroads here, using the connecting track at the northeast quadrant.

GT CROSSING (Munster)
Tower listed with Monon