Station: Calumet Park, IL

Calumet Park was on the Michigan Central main line from Porter, Indiana to downtown Chicago. It was an interlocked crossing of the MC and the Indiana Harbor Belt, Baltimore & Ohio, and the Pennsylvania railroads. It was located five miles east of Kensington. [ETT-1947]

Photo info: A Pennsylvania Railroad track diagram of the crossing at Calumet Park in 1930.

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Time Line

1908. Calumet Park, just west of Hammond, is to have what is said to be the largest interlocking tower in the world. Work on it will begin next month. In addition to the MC, there is at this point the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville, the IHB, the Chicago Junction, the South Chicago & Calumet Terminal and the South Chicago & Southern. The large number of roads at this point makes a bewildering array of tracks. [NDS-1908-0107]