ABANDONED RAILROADS

NEW YORK CENTRAL

Joliet Branch

FORMERLY New York Central Railroad (Michigan Central Railroad)
CONSTRUCTED 1854 by Joliet & Northern Indiana Railroad
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: 1925
NOT INCLUDED IN CONRAIL 1976 (East Gary-Hartsdale/Matteson-Joliet)
ABANDONED 1979

East Gary was renamed from Lake Station in 1908, and renamed back to Lake Station in 1977. After Gary was established as a new prosperous steel making town, this town wished to associate itself with Gary. But the decline of Gary resulted in a renaming back to Lake Station.

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is westward from East Gary to Joliet
Distance is from East Gary

0.0 East Gary (junction-NYC)
2.9 Liverpool (PRR crossing)
5.4 South Gary (NKP crossing)
7.8 Ross
10.4 Griffith (Erie/GTW/EJ&E crossing)
12.2 Hartsdale Yard
12.5 Hartsdale (PRR crossing)
15.4 Dyer (Monon crossing)
15.6 State Line
21.4 Chicago Heights (C&EI crossing)
24.8 Matteson
32.5 Frankfort
37.1 Spencer
38.6 Steele
43.5 Joliet (EJ&E crossing)
44.0 Joliet Jct. (CRI&P crossing)
44.4 Joliet Yard

1 track, unsignaled.

LOST STATIONS

Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.

INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.