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Todd and Denver Todd's Railfan Guide to
CHICAGO IL
Crossings and Junctions
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With all of the railroads that come thru Chicago (and used to come thru), the landscape is littered with crossings and junctions all over the place. This page covers them, along with some of the CP's (control points).
Distances are from "the Loop" in downtown Chicago,
using compass headings such as N, NW, W for the approximate direction.
Additional resources:
http://www.dhke.com/CRJ/
16th St Crossing
21st St Crossing
23rd St Junction
25th St Crossing
49th St Crossing
55th St Crossing
Argo Junction
Ash St Junction
Belt Crossing
Belt Junction
Blue Island
Brighton Park Crossing
Canal St Wye
CGW Junction
Corwith Crossing
C&E Junction
CP 509
CP 513
CP 518
CP 1009
CP 1010
CP 74th St
CP Canal
CP Hill
CP LaGrange
CP Norpaul
CP Rose
Cragin Crossing
EC Junction
Grand Crossing
Hayford Junction
IN Crossing
McCook Crossing
Ogden Junction
Pacific Junction
Pullman Junction
Provo Junction
RI Junction
Rockwell Junction
South Wye Junction
16th St Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: 41.860313, -87.630814
Location: About 1.5 miles south
of the center of the Loop
Status: Active
Tower: yes
Interchange: no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ICG, ATSF,
B&OCT, LSBC
Activity: High with lots
of commuter trains
Tracks/Details: 2 n/s, 4
e/w
Railfan Access: yes
Photograph courtesy Brent Maxwell and his wife. Nice Shot!
21st St Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
23rd St Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
25th St Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
49th St Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
55th St Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Argo
Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Ash
St Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Belt
Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Belt
Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Blue Island
GPS
Coordinates: 41.650277, -87.686396
Location: ~14 miles SSW of the
Loop
Status: Active
Tower: yes
Interchange: several
Owning Railroad(s):
not/applicable
Railroads: IHB, CSX (ex B&OCT),
CN (ex GTW),
IAIS (ex CRI&P), METRA
History: ?
Activity: High
Tracks/Details: see map
Railfan Access: Only from Broadway Street
Brighton Park Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: 41.826695,-87.686976
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: NS, CSX,
Amtrak
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: 2x(1+4), Used
mechanical semaphore interlocking until 2012
Railfan Access: ?
Before the semaphores were removed
After, notice tracks realigned
Just below the crossing at S Archer Ave
Bridges over Pershing and Western
Canal
St Wye
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CGW
Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Corwith Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: 41.825668,-87.714307
Location: About 5-1/2 miles SW
of downtown Chicago IL
Status: Active
Tower: no
Interchange: yes
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details:
Everything is well signaled,
The Google aerial is newer and shows one of the crossings removed,
the Bing aerial shows it still in place
Looking at the vintage map below, it used to be called
Corwith Junction
Railfan Access: Limited, as 38th
St goes under the tracks
C&E
Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP 509
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP 513
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP 518
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP 1009
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP 1010
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP 74th
St
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP Canal
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP Hill
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP
LaGrange
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: n/a
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP
Norpaul
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: n/a
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
CP Rose
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Cragin Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
"EC"
Junction
GPS
Coordinates: 41.788273,-87.636008
Location: South Chicago IL,
about 6 miles south of downtown, due south
Status: Removed in ???
Tower: no
Interchange: not anymore
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: PRR/PC/CR
Activity: n/a
Tracks/Details: Wye
Railfan Access: None, 59th St
goes under the tracks, other streets do not go under at all
Grand
Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
McCook Crossing
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
Pacific Junction
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
GPS
Coordinates: ?
Location:
Status: Active
Tower: yes/no/used to have one
Interchange: yes/no
Owning Railroad(s):
?
Secondary Railroad: ?
History: ?
Activity: ?
Tracks/Details: ?
Railfan Access: ?
NEW 11/4/2013
Last Modified
03-Jan-2016